Bye bye Rooney

[Ardiles]

Man City are expected to win the race to sign Wayne Rooney after offering him 230 grans a week.

Brilliant.

[jayohaitchenn]

That's going on facebook

[tans]

It has been reported Wayne Rooney has turned down a lucrative offer to sign for Ipswich Town.

Rooney was quoted as saying 'There just aren't enough prostitutes left in the area'

[jonny72]

I wouldn't be too surprised if Rooney just sees out his contract (which runs till the end of next season) or (if the press are correct) buys out his contract next summer. He'd be stupid agreeing to a transfer in January - if he holds out the 6 or 18 months he'll be able to sign a deal with Man City or Real Madrid that will make him the highest paid player in the world by some distance. They could give him a £20m signing on bonus and £20m a season and it would still work out cheaper than buying him in January.

We don't know whether Rooney is a cunt or not, but everybody knows Fergusson is so I'm blaming him for it all.

[thedarkprince]

Anyone heard of the Webster ruling?

http://uk.eurosport.yahoo.com/19102010/58/premier-league-rooney-leave-united-5m.html

Yeah Andy Webster went to the European Courts to argue that if you're in the final year of your contract you should be able to buy yourself out of it, if you give notice. You pay what your contract was worth for that one year.  Think it only applies if moving abroad.

[thedarkprince]

It has been reported Wayne Rooney has turned down a lucrative offer to sign for Ipswich Town.

Rooney was quoted as saying 'There just aren't enough prostitutes left in the area'

Oh dear.

[pauld]

I wouldn't be too surprised if Rooney just sees out his contract (which runs till the end of next season) or (if the press are correct) buys out his contract next summer. He'd be stupid agreeing to a transfer in January

Don't think Rooney can afford to be sat warming the bench till May tho. If he's going to go, he's got to go in January.

This is precisely why Citeh paid Toure £200k pw. Not because they think Toure's worth that (even Gary Cook's not that daft) but because it resets the benchmark for the top players and unsettles players across a whole bunch of clubs. Even if Rooney doesn't go across Manchester (and FWIW I agree that's unlikely), Utd are weakened by him being unsettled, never mind quitting. But mainly the Toure £200k sends a signal to every top player in Europe - it's like tapping up dozens of players simultaneously without having to lift a finger

[jonny72]

Don't think Rooney can afford to be sat warming the bench till May tho. If he's going to go, he's got to go in January.

Would Rooney actually be bothered by a few months bench warming? There is no summer tournament to prepare for and there is no chance of him getting dropped by England and little chance of Man Utd not playing him as they need him too much. I'm sure he'd prefer to be playing every week but with the potential pay out if he waits, maybe just till the end of the season, it could be enough to make it worth it.

Having said that I'm sure a compromise will be reached with him being sold at a cut price in January so everyone wins. I really hope it all goes south for Man Utd though and he goes on a free, that'll be their only high value player gone and will leave their accounts looking like a crock of shit. Maybe even enough to fuck Glazer over.

[jb]

Would Rooney actually be bothered by a few months bench warming? There is no summer tournament to prepare for and there is no chance of him getting dropped by England and little chance of Man Utd not playing him as they need him too much. I'm sure he'd prefer to be playing every week but with the potential pay out if he waits, maybe just till the end of the season, it could be enough to make it worth it.

Having said that I'm sure a compromise will be reached with him being sold at a cut price in January so everyone wins. I really hope it all goes south for Man Utd though and he goes on a free, that'll be their only high value player gone and will leave their accounts looking like a crock of shit. Maybe even enough to fuck Glazer over.

Where you been today?

[thedarkprince]

There is no summer tournament to prepare for and there is no chance of him getting dropped by England and little chance of Man Utd not playing him as they need him too much.

I'm not so sure he will play again unless there's a major thawing of relations.  We've seen it plenty of times before, Ferguson will just freeze someone out so I can see him rotting on the bench and calling upon Berbatov, Hernandez, Macheda etc to step up. 

Wouldn't actually surprise me if they shipped him out on loan with a view to a permanent transfer, still not sure where he'd go though.  Madrid looks likely despite Mourinho's protestations.

[Dazzza]

Brilliant.

That is a corker, made me chuckle.

Despite his protests I don’t think old testicle head will be that sorry to the back of chubby Wayne.  He’s far from irreplaceable and I’d imagine they’ll recoup a healthy transfer fee from his sale.

He’s so far off the pace at the moment he’s a shadow of the player he was last season and although many will argue differently at 25 I think he has a couple of seasons left in him playing the type of football he does and unlike a Giggs he doesn't appear to have the intelligence to change his game as he matures and slows down.

[pauld]

Would Rooney actually be bothered by a few months bench warming?

Don't think he'll get a choice anyway. He's being given the choice now - sign or fuck off. If he's going Man Utd will want him out of the door in Jan when they can at least get some money for him. He can buy himself out of his contract in the summer for £5m (or thereabouts), no way they can afford to let him go for that little. Even if they get the £50m being bandied around today for him in Jan (which I doubt), most of that will disappear into the black hole of the Glazers' debt, like the Ronaldo money.

If he does get sent out on loan, like dp says, it should be to Hereford. Or Macclesfield, to make up for his brother being such a knob there

[Arriba]

i reckon this is down his mrs putting her foot down over his shagging.
for that reason i think he'll go abroad.

[Power to people]

I just can't see Rooney going to somewhere like Real or Barca he would not fit into their team and I don't think his Mrs would be happy abroad away from her family, I like it that the rumours of him wanting to leave are downm the Utd lacking ambition - I reckon it is down to Alex not being happy with him and the prossies and has told him so with Rooney expecting to be supported, I'm sure he's unhappy with the press attention as well.

There's only really 4 teams that can afford him Chelski, Man City, Real & Barca....not so sure that would want to sell to an english club and can the other 2 really match his fee and wages he'd want, Real don;t have as much money as they used to

[Ginginho]

Chumpions League

Stop saying "Chumpions League" and "Premiershit" it makes you sound like a cunt.