Wayne Rooney is closing on a 300k a week contract

One of the best in the world? Lol. He's in the group of hundreds of players behind the real top players. Category C. Ronaldo and Messi are category A. Category B is the likes of Suarez, Aguero, Iniesta, Ibrahimovic, Ribery, Silva etc (probably 20 or so in this group). Rooney is Cat C along with hundreds of others, albeit close to Cat B on his best days. Let's give him C+.

 

Archaeologists?

 

He's class and that's why so many would have him if he was going.

Chelsea were the only team that could afford him other than the Manchester clubs and let's make no mistake Jose was desperate to get him in the summer

 

If Wayne Rooney is paid £300,000 a week AND he is taxed as an employee then the figures pa are:

Gross pay £15,600,000

Income tax £7,006,098

Employees NI £315,214

Net pay £8,278,687 the amount that Wayne receives

Employers NI £2,151,737


Total tax & NI take £9,473,049

Total cost to Manchester United for Wayne rooney's services £17,751,737.95

That's if he is taxed through Pay as you earn.

 

It's probably gone wooosh anyway mate

 

B- then. There are as many that don't rate him that highly. Done **** all for England when it counts. He's a knobhead too.

 

Try using your fingers, much quicker.

 

'Dem bones dem bones dem dry bones'

My son's girlfriend graduated in archaeology this year... just thought I'd throw that out there

She hates it if anyone mentions the 'stone age' she says it was the neolithic err and two other 'ithics'. I just say 'I call it my childhood'.

 

Sky and the sky generation have ripped the heart and soul out of football.

 

The sky generation really do think its OK for this money to be paid to players especially those who haven't got the slightest grasp of the value of money.

 

Paleolithic & Mesolithic.

 

Really laughing at that

 

This is Bobby Charlton. Before my time too, but I still have tons of respect and admiration for old footballers. I guarantee you, United fans will not hold Rooney in the same esteem, as the do Sir Bobby.

[video=youtube;yV17JKKOeiA]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yV17JKKOeiA[/video]

 

Genuine Man Utd fans don't have much time for Rooney. They've still not forgiven him for basically saying 'match the money City are offering or I'll join them'.

It's the plastics who don't understand the local rivalry thing as there not from Manchester who give him the time of day

 

I reckon they should cash in on him now while they can still get silly money for him. I don't seeing him having a long career due to his life style choices.

 

In those clips, apart from Bobby Charlton, there must be half a doz players that are head and shoulders above Roony, Gerard, Terry etc.

 

It's come a long way since I was a lad. Players used to travel to work( play football)on the bus.When they retired(kicked out) they got a job labouring or milkman something.In the 70's I became a neighbour of Bob Shotton who served the club for 25 years+ first as a player and then trainer. He got a job at the paper mill when he retired(kicked out) No envy from him, he said players should grab as much as they can because when they don't want you they'll kick you out.

 

Most of this thread is sensible. He ain't worth 300k a week, nobody is. But he's not going to ask for less than he thinks he can get is he? ''Hi moyesey. Chelsea have offered 275k a week, but nurses only get 30k a year so if you can offer 25k a year, a tenner per appearance and a score per goal in bonuses, and a grand per trophy the team gets, I'll sign for five years''. Aye ok.

He's not in the top five players in the world - ronaldo, messi, suarez, ibrahimovic, iniesta, streets ahead. Maybe also the likes of aguero, bale, ribery rank well in front. Certainly in front. But he's of that kind of quality.

And he's a damn site better than messrs sinton, Palmer, clough. The typical selections of the 1992/93 (WC 94 qualy) era. I'd have him over wright, Ferdinand, even platt too. In fact of the forwards, attacking midfield players and wide players Taylor picked, I'd have him over the lot. Including shearer, who was in fairness injured for a lot of that campaign, but only had scored something like five goals in his first twenty odd caps, Rooney had nine from his first sixteen caps, before he even turned nineteen.

Rooney's trouble has been he can be used in a lot of positions, wide left, right, main striker, second striker (when did you start having to call this a number ten?), central midfield. And has been, especially for club.

He has 38 goals from 88 caps at the age of 28. He's not pele, but he's not Emile heskey either. He's been and continues to be a fantastic footballer, one of the star players in a man utd team who has won trophies- and got deep into the tournaments they didn't win - both domestically and in Europe.

The money is absolutely obscene. But if somebody approached me and offered me fifteen million a year to do the job I'm already doing i'd sign on the dotted line straight away, no danger of refusing because nurses get paid less. Or at least I would as soon as I stopped p1ssing myself laughing at the hilarity of it. To be fair I'd take a job wnaking off Russian oil magnates for 10% of that figure.

He doesn't dictate the market, but there's a lot of much worse players stealing a lot of money. For example he's a damn sight nearer being worth 300k a week than Nicklas Bendtner is worth the 50k a week arsenal give him.

And compare him to, say, Jenson Button and Lewis Hamilton. Earning shed loads for F1 teams based in Surrey and Northamptonshire. And not paying a copper coin into her majesty's revenue and customs due to both residing in Monaco, in hamiltons case Switzerland before that too.

Money in top level sport is obscene. Footballers at the top end earn in a day or two what I do in a year. I agree that is grossly unfair.

It's not the players' fault though. I'd take it in their shoes - and I'm certainly not going to start saying rooney is overrated or average. Or that he wouldn't get in the worst England side in my living memory.

 

Exactly right it's only the sky tv generation that see him as anything other than good not great. Been missing in every major tournament for England as he's not quite good enough on the world stage.

 

Doesn't make it morally correct. But hey morals are soooooo like, whenever. Right?