The Official Manchester United Thread

[Agony]

Wow, Andy Mitten just confirmed what some of us already knew, Rooney is holding back the team. But all I've been hearing this season is we'd be in the bottom half of the table without him because people can't look past his goals and assists to see the bigger picture.

As for our Gary and the rest of the British pundits they won't call for him to be moved out of position or be dropped because we can't have the golden boy on the bench in a World Cup year.

There were little clues, however. Moyes was clearly unhappy at the reaction to the 2-2 draw with Fulham the Premier League's bottom club, and the focus on his team knocking cross after cross into the penalty area. "You need to have a football intelligence, a football brain, to understand first of all," he said of his tactics.

In Moyes We Trust Rust

[Mame Biram Diouf]

[Agony]

Listen from 30mins - 44mins

Jonathan Wilson talks about United, the Fulham gane, Moyes, Rooney, tactics etc.

[Mame Biram Diouf]

Ye posted it a few pages ago

 

Very interesting

 

Especially the part about Rooney in CM

 

Someone finally putting an end to that nonsense

 

Even his running style about the short bursts

 

Was creasing when he tried to run at Arsenal defence in last  year

 

He wasnt going anywhere

 

 

[Agony]

My bad

That's how soundcloud embedded links show up on my phone so I didn't know what it was

But yeah they dropped some real talk about Rooney

[Agony]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qiYkAxL1IHw

Varela needs to be backup RB. Fed up of seeing guys like Smalling, Jones and Valencia there.

[DRC]

Didn't even know he was back - so his parents are ok then?

[Michel Kane]

 

 

Remember Andy Mitten revealed Rooney dragged his heels a bit when Ferguson attempted to transform the side from classic wing play to a more intricate passing game?

 

Nahhhh

 

Agony

 

Talk to me

 

 

 

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[Michel Kane]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=09ORSRJ7miY

 

8 of the 19 assists were actually down to good decision-making/creativity. Not bad but still, in terms of his general play & contribution to team shape, he's been very mediocre as a #10.

[The King]

Jonathan Morrison

Last updated February 16 2014 12:21AM

The new deal agreed by Rooney is the biggest in the history of the Premier League

Clive Rose/Getty Images

Wayne Rooney, the Manchester United and England striker, is reported to have agreed a record £70.2 million deal that will keep him at the Barclays Premier League club until 2018.

The new contract agreed by the 28-year-old is the biggest in the history of the Premier League and will result in the striker receiving a weekly wage of £300,000, The Sun newspaper reported this morning.

Rooney had received interest from both Chelsea and Real Madrid but opted to stay at Old Trafford in what will be seen as a significant boost for David Moyes, the under-pressure manager. It is understood that Rooney will also be named captain once Nemanja Vidic departs in the summer.

Rooney had 18 months left on his existing contract, which pays him £250,000 a week, but will now stay at the club until he is 33.

Ed Woodward, the new chief executive, had described the player as “irreplaceable and phenomenal to watch”. Rooney, who joined United in 2004, has made 430 appearances for the club and scored 208 goals.

United, who won the Premier League title last season, have struggled since the retirement of Sir Alex Ferguson, who had a stormy relationship with Rooney, and have been knocked out of the FA Cup and Capital One Cup this term. They remain 11 points behind Tottenham Hotspur, the fourth-placed club.

However, the arrival of Juan Mata from Chelsea for £37.1 million lifted spirits and may have played a part in persuading Rooney to stay as the former Everton manager attempts to restore the club to its former glory. The new deal agreed by Rooney suggests he trusts Moyes to do just that.

[JOHN DOE]

[The King]

PATRICE EVRA has earned an extension to his contract at Manchester United and is now in a position to decide whether his future lies at the club next season. The France international has started 25 of United’s 26 Premier League fixtures this campaign. In doing so, he has triggered a clause in a deal he agreed with the club in February 2011.

That clause confirmed that if he played in a minimum number of matches in this, the final season of the three-year contract, he would be guaranteed a year’s extension. Evra, who is one of the best-paid players at Old Trafford with a basic annual salary well in excess of £6m, however, retains the right to leave the club on a free transfer should he choose to take up a more attractive offer elsewhere. The five-times Premier League champion has been courted by both Paris Saint-Germain and his former club, AS Monaco.

Though the current United manager, David Moyes, sought to sign first Everton’s Leighton Baines and then Real Madrid’s Fabio Coentrao in the summer transfer window and remains in the market for an additional left-back, his plan is to use a new recruit in tandem with Evra next season, reducing the physical demands on a 32-year-old who has been first-choice in the position for eight seasons. Ideally, Evra’s back-up, Alexander Buttner, will be sold to make way for any signing.

The Scot’s admiration for Evra both as a player and a training ground leader has grown through working together. “He is one of the finest men and leaders around the dressing room that I have ever seen,” said Moyes, in recent programme notes. “He is inspirational behind the scenes — he’s a great man.”

The importance of convincing Evra to remain at Old Trafford has been increased by Moyes’ intention to reshape the rest of United’s defence should the club’s owners retain faith in him as manager for a second season.

Central defenders Nemanja Vidic and Rio Ferdinand are both to be allowed to leave the club when their contracts expire this summer, while right-back Rafael has been made available for sale. The planned departures of Ferdinand and Vidic also increase the chances that Evra will be promoted to club captain next season.

Moyes has argued that the weaknesses of United’s squad are responsible for the club trailing leaders Chelsea by 15 points and wants an overhaul of the playing staff. Yet his chief executive appeared to back away from that strategy last week. “We wouldn’t necessarily be looking to churn a huge number of players, because that can have a destabilising effect, but we aren’t afraid of moving in the market in a way we perhaps haven’t seen in recent years,” Ed Woodward said.

[Agony]

He doesn't pass forward they said...

[Badman]

Rooney is spineless, happy to stay in his comfort zone and make the most of his golden boy status

[Kompressor]

for 300k a week wouldn't you be. 

 

plus what other club would put up with his unprofessional behaviour off the pitch and him pouting like a little bitch everytime he wants a pay rise. 

[Yoshie]

Nahh, how is he earning more Messi, some joke.

[Badman]

for 300k a week wouldn't you be. 

 

plus what other club would put up with his unprofessional behaviour off the pitch and him pouting like a little bitch everytime he wants a pay rise. 

 

Was reported that he handed in a number of 'verbal' transfer requests but iirc never an official written one? even after instructed to do so after his winging

 

spineless 

[Kompressor]

He's playing the game. 

 

Threaten to leave, Club will either sell him, something they are reluctant to do unless they can get what they want fee wise. or are left with no choice. 

alternatively the club will do what it can to keep its Marquee player its face across the world and their top shirt seller. 

 

Rooney and Stretford 2 Manchester United 0. (Until the yearly profits are released anyway. Coz then everyone wins.)

[darkman]

for 300k a week wouldn't you be. 

 

plus what other club would put up with his unprofessional behaviour off the pitch and him pouting like a little bitch everytime he wants a pay rise. 

 

What unprofessional behaviour in particular?

 

Don't most contract extensions result in a payrise?

[Mame Biram Diouf]

 

for 300k a week wouldn't you be. 

 

plus what other club would put up with his unprofessional behaviour off the pitch and him pouting like a little bitch everytime he wants a pay rise. 

 

What unprofessional behaviour in particular?

 

Don't most contract extensions result in a payrise?

 

 

Id say handing in two transfer requests is up there

[Agony]

We need to stop feeding the troll in this thread.

Hopefully he'll get the hint like last time and go back terrorising the Arsenal room.

[JOHN DOE]

http://provenquality.com/united-must-sell-wayne-rooney/

 

 

there are some people out there who 'get it'

 

saf gave  moyes a nice alley oop to rid united of rooney with  little damage but the gollum c*nt saw it as a way to show his 'intent' 

 

months later there are reports of  a man ( who even now has problems with his weight ) will be banking 300 every week up until 33/34 and the funny thing is he is still yet to sign 

[Haze-e]

My dislike for Rooney grows daily.

[Mame Biram Diouf]

 and the funny thing is he is still yet to sign 

 

lol

 

this is what is getting to me the most

 

THIS