You did it! Get ready for a response and a half. I agree but it all depends who we sell him to. As long as it wasn't to someone in the PL then it would be a good deal.
We could very easily build the team around a Nani, Kagawa and RVP triumvirate and then amalgamate Welbeck into that as RVP gets older/injured.
No player is irreplaceable and we would very easily move on from Rooney just as we moved on from Ruud, Beckham and Taibi
Why sell our "top player" to bring in another player who's three years older than him?
Oldnewton
I genuinely don't see Rooney as our top player. He's obviously very good but i'd say Carrick, Vidic and Nani would be harder to replace.
We may very well never sell Rooney but this article is interesting and indulge the guy who made it. Are we better with Rooney or could we be just as good without him (as long as we brought in a world class replacement)?
Because RVP is a better player, in his prime and it would make financial sense!
Old newtown. Rooney is no way our best player.
thats one big gamble that, how many goals did Rooney score last season 30? (in a so called bad season)
Rooney is in his prime age wise.
Thanks funrob. I agree that with RVP/Kagawa/Wellbeck (and Nani interchanging)we could have excellent attacking capabilities and we wouldn't miss Rooney.
Oldnewton
I'm sure a lot of world class strikers would score 30+ a season in our team. If Rooney stays i'm sure we'll be fine and i'm personally not saying we should sell him but sometimes teams need freshening up and who's to say that selling Rooney and bringing in a couple of new, top class players won't give the team a whole new dimension?
Rooney is only 26, has a few more years of development ahead of him before he reaches his prime.. Van Persie is injury prone, and is only going to decline from age in the coming years.
If your actually being serious with this article I'm so glad that you have no say whatsoever within our club!!
interesting article. you will probably be shot down for mentioning selling king Wayne but if it's not a wum it's a valid argument. Not necessarily a good one but I can see it's merits. personally I would rather keep Wayne but I don't think he is irreplaceable and i don't think he is as good as the media make out.
Age aside, I totally agree. RVP is a far better player to build a team around. However good Rooney is, building around him is actually holding us back in my opinion.
His ability obviously compensates for this, but I don't like his playing style and don't think he will ever reach the potential he had as a 17 year old.
RVP at United would help Rooney, take a bit of pressure off him.
We then might see the best of him, because theres no doubt in my mind Rooney is a top top player.
For me Rooney seems to of lost the explosive pace he had as a 17 year old but his all round game have developed to compensate this... Not that hes slow, i just think he used to be faster.
Carrickature/Serbian legend: Not wumming just putting an idea across. I also think that Rooney's style would affect us if we got an attacking midfielder in as Rooney likes to occupy the same area.
Insanity, admittedly RVP had a better season last season than Rooney did but you wouldn't have all been clamouring to replace him straight with Rooney before that so maybe a bit more caution is advisable...
Personally I wouldn't swap a world class 26 year old for a world class 29 year old, especially ones so close in terms of ability...
I know you weren't wumming, I agreed with you?
Sell Rooney for £50m.
Buy van Persie and spend the extra £20m on a central midfielder.
Serbian. I know mate. The first part of that post was for caricature, the second part was responding to what you said.
Lex: that's what I'm saying!!!
Rooney is younger than RVP and better than RVP.
If wages are a problem the solution is simple:
Don't buy RVP.
Not trying to shoot you down but no way on earth would I swap Rooney for RVP.
For starters RVP only had one pod season free of injury, and had suddenly been elevated to "the best striker in world bracket"
If we are talking about replacing Rooney then do it wil Falcao not RVP.
Like I said not shooting you down but if we were to sell Rooney and get new striker why not get the best ??
Pod season
"good" season
iPhone's hey
Sign in if you want to comment
Buy RVP and sell.....
Page 1 of 5
posted on 29/7/12
You did it! Get ready for a response and a half. I agree but it all depends who we sell him to. As long as it wasn't to someone in the PL then it would be a good deal.
We could very easily build the team around a Nani, Kagawa and RVP triumvirate and then amalgamate Welbeck into that as RVP gets older/injured.
No player is irreplaceable and we would very easily move on from Rooney just as we moved on from Ruud, Beckham and Taibi
posted on 29/7/12
Why sell our "top player" to bring in another player who's three years older than him?
posted on 29/7/12
Oldnewton
I genuinely don't see Rooney as our top player. He's obviously very good but i'd say Carrick, Vidic and Nani would be harder to replace.
We may very well never sell Rooney but this article is interesting and indulge the guy who made it. Are we better with Rooney or could we be just as good without him (as long as we brought in a world class replacement)?
posted on 29/7/12
Because RVP is a better player, in his prime and it would make financial sense!
posted on 29/7/12
Old newtown. Rooney is no way our best player.
posted on 29/7/12
thats one big gamble that, how many goals did Rooney score last season 30? (in a so called bad season)
Rooney is in his prime age wise.
posted on 29/7/12
Thanks funrob. I agree that with RVP/Kagawa/Wellbeck (and Nani interchanging)we could have excellent attacking capabilities and we wouldn't miss Rooney.
posted on 29/7/12
!
posted on 29/7/12
Oldnewton
I'm sure a lot of world class strikers would score 30+ a season in our team. If Rooney stays i'm sure we'll be fine and i'm personally not saying we should sell him but sometimes teams need freshening up and who's to say that selling Rooney and bringing in a couple of new, top class players won't give the team a whole new dimension?
posted on 29/7/12
Rooney is only 26, has a few more years of development ahead of him before he reaches his prime.. Van Persie is injury prone, and is only going to decline from age in the coming years.
posted on 29/7/12
If your actually being serious with this article I'm so glad that you have no say whatsoever within our club!!
posted on 29/7/12
interesting article. you will probably be shot down for mentioning selling king Wayne but if it's not a wum it's a valid argument. Not necessarily a good one but I can see it's merits. personally I would rather keep Wayne but I don't think he is irreplaceable and i don't think he is as good as the media make out.
posted on 29/7/12
Age aside, I totally agree. RVP is a far better player to build a team around. However good Rooney is, building around him is actually holding us back in my opinion.
His ability obviously compensates for this, but I don't like his playing style and don't think he will ever reach the potential he had as a 17 year old.
posted on 29/7/12
What Carrickature said
posted on 29/7/12
RVP at United would help Rooney, take a bit of pressure off him.
We then might see the best of him, because theres no doubt in my mind Rooney is a top top player.
posted on 29/7/12
For me Rooney seems to of lost the explosive pace he had as a 17 year old but his all round game have developed to compensate this... Not that hes slow, i just think he used to be faster.
posted on 29/7/12
Carrickature/Serbian legend: Not wumming just putting an idea across. I also think that Rooney's style would affect us if we got an attacking midfielder in as Rooney likes to occupy the same area.
posted on 29/7/12
Insanity, admittedly RVP had a better season last season than Rooney did but you wouldn't have all been clamouring to replace him straight with Rooney before that so maybe a bit more caution is advisable...
Personally I wouldn't swap a world class 26 year old for a world class 29 year old, especially ones so close in terms of ability...
posted on 29/7/12
I know you weren't wumming, I agreed with you?
posted on 29/7/12
Sell Rooney for £50m.
Buy van Persie and spend the extra £20m on a central midfielder.
posted on 29/7/12
Serbian. I know mate. The first part of that post was for caricature, the second part was responding to what you said.
posted on 29/7/12
Lex: that's what I'm saying!!!
posted on 29/7/12
Rooney is younger than RVP and better than RVP.
If wages are a problem the solution is simple:
Don't buy RVP.
posted on 29/7/12
Not trying to shoot you down but no way on earth would I swap Rooney for RVP.
For starters RVP only had one pod season free of injury, and had suddenly been elevated to "the best striker in world bracket"
If we are talking about replacing Rooney then do it wil Falcao not RVP.
Like I said not shooting you down but if we were to sell Rooney and get new striker why not get the best ??
posted on 29/7/12
Pod season
"good" season
iPhone's hey
Page 1 of 5