Is Wayne Rooney Overated?

Warper

Boggles wrote: »

He missed the first 3 league games of last season. We are now approaching League Game 14.

Ronaldo was out until October - he missed way more than 3 league games.
Were you not advocating the sale of Ronaldo because he was self serving?

What?

homer simpson

My two cents worth,

Yes he is overated, i beleive that if he cut out the crap he could be every bit a world class player (although he hasn't been as bad this year). He could have been red carded in half of his games last year if the ref had have been a tad braver, but allas because he is an english player playing for the english team he gets away with a lot, as does john terry. He has an aufull habbit of getting annoyed when he loses the ball and running half the pitch to nail whoever has the ball, and he also runs the length of the pitch to shout and roar at the ref most of the time they included 1 normal word 1 swear word, 1 norm 1 swear, 1 norm 1 swear!

Unearthly

Warper wrote: »

What?

Ronaldo made a comeback in the 4th game of the league v Chelsea as a sub.

Boggles

Warper wrote: »

What?

What do you want me to do, shout that your wrong?

Warper

Unearthly wrote: »

Ronaldo made a comeback in the 4th game of the league v Chelsea as a sub.

Fair enough, I got it wrong.

PHB

The argument about Rooney and Ronaldo was always that Rooney did the team job for Ronaldo that had to be done, but Ronaldo wasn't going to do it. Tracking back when you have to, closing down up front etc. Rooney sacrificed himself for the team, no doubt about it. But it worked.

It's yet to be seen if it'll work at Madrid. Ronaldo scoring 40 goals does not equal a good season. A league or a CL does.

Sheepy99

until this season , where he can now shine without ronaldo there, i thought he was extremely overrated.

Liam O

homer_simpson wrote: »

My two cents worth,

Yes he is overated, i beleive that if he cut out the crap he could be every bit a world class player (although he hasn't been as bad this year). He could have been red carded in half of his games last year if the ref had have been a tad braver, but allas because he is an english player playing for the english team he gets away with a lot, as does john terry. He has an aufull habbit of getting annoyed when he loses the ball and running half the pitch to nail whoever has the ball, and he also runs the length of the pitch to shout and roar at the ref most of the time they included 1 normal word 1 swear word, 1 norm 1 swear, 1 norm 1 swear!

right so Rooney has now been a bad player in recent seasons :rolleyes:

and when he loses the ball, he makes an effort to get it back and most of the time will get it back. Also to bring in that he is English is ludicrous. He got sent off last season for throwing the ball ffs! Also excuse me if I'm wrong, but how the hell do you know what he says to the referees?

Mitch Connor

Liam O wrote: »

right so Rooney has now been a bad player in recent seasons :rolleyes:

and when he loses the ball, he makes an effort to get it back and most of the time will get it back. Also to bring in that he is English is ludicrous. He got sent off last season for throwing the ball ffs! Also excuse me if I'm wrong, but how the hell do you know what he says to the referees?

i'm gonna guess 'as bad' in terms of seeming trying to get himself sent off.

kryogen

I actually think he misses Ronaldo on the pitch

He is overrated in some circles, but his presence on the team is absolutly vital to us imo.....

Liam O

Mitch Connor wrote: »

i'm gonna guess 'as bad' in terms of seeming trying to get himself sent off.

hmm whoops, kind of makes more sense like that alright...still, he hasn't been that bad card wise in his United career despite what the ABUs will tell you.

Johner

No he's not over-rated,I'm a Chelsea fan and every time he got the ball against us I got scared. He is world class.

Frisbee

Imo he's overrated by United fans and underrated by everyone else.