Wayne Rooney

classic nakhchivan

shaw injury tonight might see Rooney played out of position to cover for a while y/n?

He has won the England Player of the Year award four times, in 2008, 2009, 2014 and 2015. With 51 goals in 109 international caps, Rooney is England's all-time record goalscorer and fourth most-capped player.

Ppl who treat this as the defence as opposed to admitting it as the problem are imbeciles

i met a friend of a friend a few months back and had a brief discussion with him about football, and i made this point, fairly calmly, not in the way i'd make it here, and the guy, a liverpool fan but seemingly a big fan of rooney, tried to fight me outside the pub as a result.

howarye

International tournament time. First sally.

xp lol i had similar in a hometown bar nb not madrid about raul once in the late 90s

Now i was 100% wrong but nonetheless wtf is wrong with ppl

it was extremely strange, no amount of means to an end politeness would calm him either. drink i suppose.

A curse!

England Player of the Year? Never heard of such a thing.

Simon Stone, BBC Sport

Rooney's statement settles his short-term future but does nothing to address long-term issues over his future.

long-term? he's more likely to die than he is to play more than 30 more premier league games.

Former Tottenham manager Harry Redknapp says Rooney would be an "ideal" signing for United's Premier League rivals Arsenal.

"Arsenal lack somebody like Rooney - a winner, a leader," he told BBC Radio 5 live.

"He could easily go into somewhere like Arsenal and get a few of their players by the scruff of the neck on the pitch and improve their performances."

Old 'arry just now saying on tv what a great signing he'd be for arsenal, oh sweet babby jeeznuts

Err xp obv

has there ever been a player with more bullshit behind him? i know gerrard, lampard, other english players, but the idea that rooney is some sort of leader who could shake up arsenal is beyond belief.

He's a million miles away from Lampard, Gerrard, Ferdinand or any of those in terms of myth vs reality vs salary vs harnessing an entire footballing infrastructure around.

A million miles. Each of the above was a player that significantly improved the teams they played for consistently throughout their long careers. Everything United or England have done since Rooney became their completely white hope has been despite the heaving infection.

I cannot immediately bring to mind any comparable phenomenon in any sphere of human activity

Karl Marx maybe.

Radiohead.

i agree - and weirdly the worse he gets the more people keep hyping him. that last contract was fucking criminal - he's still dining off it.

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the more certain people keep hyping him anyway.

He has won the England Player of the Year award four times, in 2008, 2009, 2014 and 2015. With 51 goals in 109 international caps, Rooney is England's all-time record goalscorer and fourth most-capped player.

Ppl who treat this as the defence as opposed to admitting it as the problem are imbeciles

― Daithi Bowsie (darraghmac), Monday, 23 May 2016 10:21 (nine months ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

But really, this. But wheel in all his stats for united too. Clipboard player, fuck off.

Frankenstein repped for his fuckin monster too for long enough

his united stats are actually fairly elucidating

I can't decide whether that's a thingy or not.

I love the fact that he's totally irrelevant to this Utd team now

Still though, at the press conference before the St. Etienne game 90% of the hacks' questions were about Rooney. They just can't quit him

I've a pet theory that Moyes and Rooney were a poisonous goodbye from fergie but twas Moyes signed him to that contract, if Moyes had anything to do with it, or if Moyes was in a position to do anything but at the time. There's a theory in there somewhere tho def

The emperor's roo clothes is the one headline the cunts can't bring themselves to write

Let's leave Karl Marx out of this. Engels, he was a Manc lad.

I was trying to think today if there's any other club whose fans largely despise their all-time top goal scorer

I'd need to see a list tbh

Rooney's goals and assists (combined) per game

2009/2010 0.96875
2010/2011 0.785714286
2011/2012 1
2012/2013 0.814814815
2013/2014 1
2014/2015 0.515151515
2015/2016 0.5
2016/2017 0.117647059

any idea that he has taken up the xavi role or something and that explains why there is a such a huge drop-off after 2013/2014 is bullshit obv. he just is a player whose primary attribute was consistent attacking output which he no longer provides.

taken up the sausage role iirc

https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/624/cpsprodpb/9593/production/_96919283_wazza976.jpg

Everton have been given royal treatment since they arrived in the East African state.

The wild chants for Rooney, along with stomping performances by Maasai cultural dancers, created a spectacle to behold.

iirc the sighting of a white elephant has special cultural significance to the Maasai.

lol!

:D

The colonial write-up ("wild chants") courtesy of the bbc btw.

beautiful finish there from Shari

completely white elephant

Thought the fat nothing amoeba had internationally retired before now?

the lad doesn't know the meaning of the word "retire".

I mean, among lots of other words.

Goodbye England's rose, may you ever grow in our hearts

Completely white rose obv

pretty sure he's cooked up this retirement story and Southgate's had the decency to play along with it

still, it leaves an opening for John Terry

And he don't need asking twice

Cunt

Posted at 21:03
'A little reducer'

Liverpool 0-0 Everton

Martin Keown

Former Arsenal defender on BBC One

I think Wayne Rooney is saying (to the referee) 'I got there as quick as I could', but it was very late and it is a painful one for Joe Gomez. A little reducer from Rooney early on. I hope he doesn't regret that.

No lie there.

i like a spotting of a reducer in the wild

Fucking child cunt

Ref that leaves holgate on the pitch here is a coward

Yep

He's ready

Wayne Rooney and D.C. United have agreed on terms to become the club's newest manager, sources confirmed to @MLSist.

The Manchester United and England great arrived in DC to meet with club officials on Sunday. https://t.co/rtUAUgW0Tz

— The Athletic (@TheAthletic) July 11, 2022

I'm not a football fan, but when I think of Wayne Rooney I always remember the plan to make a five-volume autobiography of Wayne Rooney, because ghostwritten football autobiographies were so hot back in 2006:
https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2006/mar/10/books.bookscomment

"Everyone knows Wayne Rooney has a way with words. Usually very short ones, consisting mainly of asterisks, like this recent verbal sally aimed at a Premiership referee and faithfully recorded by the tabloids: "You f***ing t*** ... you're a f***ing disgrace."

Computer screens were really narrow in 2006. Rooney was apparently given a £5m advance. This was back when the biggest-selling author in the UK was Katie Price. The joke at the time was that he was only 20, but that didn't seem particularly bad, and I imagine that nowadays there's easily enough material for half a million words about Wayne Rooney. His story is the story of Britain in the early twenty-first century, and also the 1960s, because I always felt there was something 1960s about him ("local boy done good", that kind of thing).

"Rooney's deal comes a day after Alan Greenspan, former chairman of the US Federal Reserve, signed a $9m (£5.2m) deal with Penguin for his memoirs. That deal eclipsed Pope John Paul II's $8.5m for Crossing the Threshold of Hope in 1994, but remained behind the $12m Bill Clinton is rumoured to have received for his memoirs."

I don't know if the moderators can see it, but notice how I put the italic tags inside the quote marks. Because the quote marks aren't part of the quote, they define the quote. The words are italic, not the quote marks. I may not have progressed to CSS and Javascript etc but I do know how to write clean HTML. If anybody needs someone who can add italic tags to blocks of text, email me and we can come to a deal.

It seems that one volume came out later the same year, My Story So Far, but four years on the whole thing was scrapped because England did poorly in a bunch of international tournaments. It was ghostwritten by Hunter Davies OBE, who also went on to ghostwrite John Prescott's autobiography, Prezza, My Story: Pulling no Punches. "And then I hit him" probably features in both books.

Wayne Rooney, post-ASG, asked what he took out of the game in terms of “honing your craft as a coach.”

Rooney: “Absolutely nothing.”#MLSAllStar

— Pablo Iglesias Maurer (@MLSist) July 20, 2023

so, so embarrassed for anyone who ever imagined this guy coaching to any positive effect

he did ok at Derby, maybe he's only any good at crisis clubs who aren't paying player wages and teetering on the edge of bankruptcy etc. His record has been just as bad as Darren Moore's and he wont get sacked. Then again we weren't in a playoff place when the useless fucker got the job.

Cook said: “Wayne’s role here is to be a leader, to drive a successful, ambitious and winning mentality.” This is another milestone for Birmingham City. With it comes great expectation.”

heh! these clueless DoF duds and the shite they talk

looking into his time at Derby, a lot of their fans consider that Rosenior was the brains behind the operation and the way their respective careers are going bears this out, well the latter is doing ok at Hull while Wazza likely won't get another job at this level.