Wayne Rooney is closing on a 300k a week contract

They don't have to keep it you know...

 

It's a really good post this. The only detail that I'd maybe quibble with is I'd probably take Shearer in his pomp over Rooney, but that's just a personal opinion and troff wasn't even comparing the two when they were both at their best. And let's be reight, if you're second only to Shearer than you're still pretty special.

Rooney is a good footballer. Good footballers get paid too much money. That's not Rooney's fault, it's the fault of the game.

Personally, I don't have a problem with the very best getting **** loads of money. They do in all professions. Where football differs is that average and pretty poor players get paid **** loads of money too, and that doesn't happen elsewhere. Average actors have to scratch out a living, bit parts in soap operas and theatre roles that attract an audience of 50. Average singers and musicians have day jobs to support their musical ambitions. Average footballers earn more in a month than most folk earn in a year. That's what's ****** up, not the guy who has every chance of becoming our national team's record goal scorer earning daft amounts.

Players at clubs like Barnsley shouldn't be earning much more than the punters who come to support them. If the clubs could afford to pay them more their wages would be justified, but they can't, and just about every team is running at a loss with huge debts. It's barmy.

 

Wife's a free loader as well.

 

Giving him a long term contract now is a bit silly. You just have to look at him to know he's not a player who will be able to hack it at the top level until 34, I think he'll start to decline fairly quickly after 31/32.

 

Think total opposite.

when hes 32/33 he'll play in midfield. Hes already started to do it and he looks class in there.
He's also said hes never felt fitter. If theres anyone in world Football that runs more than Rooney I would like to see him

 

Lewandowski for one - http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/fo...-evidence-points-in-different-directions.html

He's hardly going to say he's starting to feel a bit knackered when he's trying to negotiate a new contract is he?

 

He said after SAF had gone upstairs that he was fine last year.
Rooney will be fine. Amazing Athlete

 

He makes the most of what he's got but in terms of pure athleticism he's not amongst the top footballers, let alone other sportsmen.

 

I agree with the rest of your post, but this part caught my eye. Don't you think that it would widen the gap between the "big clubs" and "small(er) clubs" even further, thus making it nearly impossible for clubs like us to ever play in the top flight or have any success in the cup again? The money is what is ruining the game (in my opinion), but it's not just the crazy amount of money, it's the unfair distribution of money.

Of course there's no easy way to sort this out, but I think that a similar "salary cap" system for each team that they've got in American sports (well, in NHL at least)
could work.

 

Blame the agents more than him.

"I need another couple of houses. Time to start another Rooney to Chelsea/Man City rumour, which will result in either a bumper pay rise, or a big transfer fee. Either way, quids in. Hello? Is that The Sun's sports desk? You'll never guess what I've heard..."

 

Rooney isn't average. He's a fine player, fantastic on occasion. But he's hugely overrated nowadays. When he first burst onto the scene, he had more about him. I think he's gradually got worse, not better.
Folk can quote his record for Man Utd and England all they want, but I suspect it's a lot easier to reach 38 England goals when most of the opposition he's faced and scored against are the likes of San Marino, Andorra, Montenegro, Trinidad, Jamaica or whoever. Other than at Euro 2004 (that's ten years ago now) he's failed spectacularly at tournaments. In fact, his idiocy cost us in one. He was an absolute waste of a shirt at the last World Cup. I'll never get that image of him ranting about the fans down the camera out of my mind. ******* cretin. He put in displays in that tournament that Richard Naylor would have been proud of.

I'd take David Platt, Teddy Sheringham or Alan Shearer over him any day of the week (at the same age). No idea why you referred to Sinton, Palmer etc. Not even similar positions. All three of those I've mentioned were better footballers, achieved more in an England shirt and performed exceptionally well for numerous clubs winning things. And it was a lot harder for their respective clubs to achieve owt back then. Man Utd are the ultimate buying club. Certainly since Rooney went there.


But as I say, I'm not knocking him. He's probably - on his day - as good as we've got in his position in terms of an Englishman. But that says more about our country and it's failings than it does Wayne himself. I hope he finally shows this World Class talent on the big stage in five months time. But I expect him to be lumbering around looking exhausted, arms in the air whilst the Italians and Uruguay dismantle us. Luis Suarez in particular. There's a player that's so far better than Rooney it's frightening.
I'd like him to do what McManaman, Gazza, Ince and Platt did. Go abroad and be a success there as well.
If United fail to qualify for the Champions League, he'll want away. And Chelsea will be favourites for his signature. But Hemsworth tells me every club in the World would bid for him, so I'd like him to show some ambition and bravery and go to Bayern, Milan or one of the Spanish giants.


As for Hamilton, Button or whichever F1 driver you want to refer to, I'd suggest their 'job' is pretty dangerous and therefore I'd encourage them to make as much money as possible. It's a short career, and can be cut short at any moment, fatally.
I don't see F1 drivers who can't get a drive still picking up ludicrous wages. Only 14 players can play for any one team in any one match. So that's a lot of other players not getting a game, but still getting rewarded handsomely for it.
That's no fault of theirs, though. Can't blame them at all.

And finally, I still don't regard that 1993/94 England side as the worst. I think we were unlucky not to qualify from a difficult group. Injuries to Gascoigne etc. Refereeing decisions cost us. The media destroying Taylor, urging him to fail. It wasn't great, and some of the XI's he picked are the worst on paper that I can remember, no doubt. But I class the 'golden' generation that failed in South Africa as the worst. The same failures who failed to qualify from an easy group for the Euro's two years previous. And we still pick a lot of them. Rooney included.

Spain dropped Raul, Guti etc. They rebuilt with youth. As did Germany. The French have had to do similarly recently. But we - one or two aside - keep doing the same thing over and over, and getting the same result: ***** football, getting outpassed and outplayed before an inevitable defeat on pens.


Rooney wouldn't make my top 50 players in the world right now. There's probably 20 ahead of him if not more, just in the Premier League.


Sorry for rambling (not really).

 

I don't think he is an amazing athlete. Close season he abuses his body drinking, smoking and eating crap and we see that publicly so can't imagine the excesses behind closed doors. It's easy to get fit again through training when you're young but the older you get the harder it becomes and it takes a toll on the body. Ferguson couldn't reign him in with this so unless things change I reckon he'll retire early.

An amazing athlete has discipline and looks after their body, this isn't the case with Rooney.

 

Wow. He's a mile from being an amazing athlete. Part of a wind up, yes?

 

Athlete and Rooney in the same sentence is a giveaway, Ponty. Course it's a wind up. Isn't it?

I'm still waiting for Phil to reply to the many posts regarding it being ok to swear unless you're called Bobby.

 

Wengeritis. Always the same. Bless her.

 

He'd wipe the floor with Hassell in every aspect.

Speed
Strength
Vo2
power
Muscle mass
Fat to Body weight
Knowledge of the game

Chelsea wanted him, quite clear and other clubs would have too but hes made it clear he doesn't see himself playing outside of England at the moment. I personally think he'll join a MLS side at the age of 33/34

 

Sir Alex Ferguson admits the player has phenomenal stamina. Ferguson said: 'He's always had great natural stamina, he's blessed in that respect. Rooney could play as a boxto- box midfielder.'
Rooney uses so much energy in a game that if converted into electricity it would light an average house for 90 minutes.


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Random put down about Bobby in a thread about Wayne Rooney... H-T mate you are weird as ****!

 

What the **** are you on about?

Why are you comparing Rooney to Hassell?

 

You brought the name up and seen your always on here saying how good he is even though he's done less than the guy you are slagging off in this threads done by the time he was 17 I thought i'd put it.