Rooney (again)

Half of me wondered whether Jose's pointedly simplistic answer was setting a trap for Rooney. It's not an unreasonable objective for a world-class centre forward: score against a League One team.

I don't know why everyone suddenly is so surprised when Rooney plays badly. He's been a complete dog5hit for years. He is physically shot now. Even the Chinese league would be a massively challenging for him.

Was last night his final chance?

No.

He had an appalling game again last night, which came as no surprise to anyone I'm sure.

Should have scored a couple, at least. Right now he's an empty shirt and doesn't deserve to be playing.

I think Herrera and Carrick did enough last night to start ahead of Rooney and Fellaini for the Leicester game.

comment by Red Russian (U4715)
posted 23 minutes ago
Half of me wondered whether Jose's pointedly simplistic answer was setting a trap for Rooney. It's not an unreasonable objective for a world-class centre forward: score against a League One team.
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I wondered that myself RR. Even picking him in the first place, it's even less unreasonable to expect a him to play well against a League 1 team.

He'll still be getting picked when Rashford's 30

The fact all the other offensive players were rested last night could be promising. Add the fact Rooney was useless against third tier opposition and you really have to think he may have trouble starting on Saturday. But could there really be something in him having to play due to some contractual reason?

I expect to see him on the teamsheet on Saturday.

He'll start on Saturday