Rooney signs new 5 year deal

adamski8

hmmm i didnt like rooney before but i have a new admiration for him now.

PHB

I assume that Fergie has basically gotten in a one on one with him and convinced him.

D/C

Delighted Rooney is staying, it was an unbelievable week! Some of the stories were very hard to take!

Now United must invest! Midfield is a priority as wedensday night proved!

Mikeyt086

BastardPrince wrote: »

eh how about YOU get YOUR facts right, i said nothing of the sort...

No it was another poster. Why did you reply to a post with a direct quote in it?

I was asking him not to generalise, and you jumped in and said some people have friends outside boards? Odd.

Oat23

iregk

Or there is an agreement there to let him go in the summer for decidedly more than the 5m they would have lost him for next year.

That_Guy

medicman2009 wrote: »

Ferguson the master wrong foots everyone, Dunphy the dope is wrong yet again.

Is everyone who was wrong a dope?

Necronomicon

I'm so disillusioned to be honest.

He acted like a knob-end, showed a complete lack of respect for the manager and his team mates by basically intimating that he was above them, even though he's the one that hasn't been able to hit a barn door in 7 months. And all, by the looks of it, a thinly veiled smokescreen for an extra few grand per week.

He's got some making up to do.

GavRedKing

Delighted

Thank fcuk he never had the chance to end up at Chelsea. Ye can keep him lads.

Hope all the United fans can look at Rooney in the same light as some of the "money grabbing, mercenary" Man City players.

Well done Wayne, well done.

dr.bollocko

He just trolled the press.
Hahaha.

JPA

medicman2009 wrote: »

Ferguson the master wrong foots everyone, Dunphy the dope is wrong yet again.

Rooney is the master in this one no?

super_furry

Called it days ago http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?p=68606092#post68606092

Looking at it from a slightly different angle, this puts a lot of pressure on the Glazers to make money available. It wouldn't be beyond the realms of credibility for an experienced manager like Alex Ferguson to engineer this situation to put the pressure on the owners to give him funds.

FatherTed

quad_red wrote: »

A photoshop of what Rooney will look like in a United strip.

hahaha

Oat23

JPA wrote: »

Rooney is the master in this one no?

Coleen is the master, new contract signed so NOW she will divorce him and take 50% :pac:.

5ForKeeps

"Club no longer match my ambitions"....48 hours ago.

All Utd fans are falling for this hook, line and sinker. He has made your club and its board look like a joke in the few days and now all is forgiven. Jesus weeps.

FatherTed

5ForKeeps wrote: »

"Club no longer match my ambitions"....48 hours ago.

All Utd fans are falling for this hook, line and sinker. He has made your club and its board look like a joke in the few days and now all is forgiven. Jesus weeps.

As long as he score goals and wins games, that's all that's matters.

RasTa

5ForKeeps wrote: »

"Club no longer match my ambitions"....48 hours ago.

All Utd fans are falling for this hook, line and sinker. He has made your club and its board look like a joke in the few days and now all is forgiven. Jesus weeps.

Please quote where United fans have forgiven him? You forgiven Gerrard for the same?

If he gets his act together then I will forgive him but he has a long long way to go

Iago

5ForKeeps wrote: »

"Club no longer match my ambitions"....48 hours ago.

All Utd fans are falling for this hook, line and sinker. He has made your club and its board look like a joke in the few days and now all is forgiven. Jesus weeps.

quite

"Steven has told us he will not accept our offer of an improved and extended contract because he wants to leave," a Liverpool club statement read.

Gerrard also issued a statement which said: "This has been the hardest decision I have ever had to make."

He added: "I fully intended to sign a new contract after the Champions League final, but the events of the past five to six weeks have changed all that.

Thanx 4 The Fish

Not too many people play hardball with sir a and win. Fair play to him, got both things he wanted I would imagine. He must have had the assurances and obviously got the money too!

Poccington

medicman2009 wrote: »

Ferguson the master wrong foots everyone, Dunphy the dope is wrong yet again.

The master?

Rooney scared the club into giving him an extra few quid. I'm not quite sure how Fergie came out of this situation as the master.

Raskolnikov

RTÉ are reporting a £190k a week contract.

All in all, this saga has been a joke.

5ForKeeps

RasTa wrote: »

Please quote where United fans have forgiven him? You forgiven Gerrard for the same?[/QUOTE]

Quote, look at all the posts on here you will see how he has being forgiven. Gerrard did it twice and I still haven't forgiven him.

5ForKeeps

Iago wrote: »

quite

As I said in my above post I have never forgiven Gerrard for doing it, not only once but twice.

super_furry

"Wayne Rooney, Rooney
He kisses the badge on his chest,
Then puts in a transfer request,
Wayne Rooney, Rooney"

*ahem*

mar-z

super_furry wrote: »

"Colleen forgave you but we won't"

Emmmm.....new banner time lads?

I actually hope that fans will give him a bit of stick, he shouldn't be able to behave like this (saying he's not a mercenary and is leaving because we have no ambition and then stay for a wad of cash) and then assume everything will be like it was before.

Unfortunately I imagine a lot of fans will jump back on the Rooney bandwagon. He should need to earn the fans affection back.

5ForKeeps

FatherTed wrote: »

As long as he score goals and wins games, that's all that's matters.

Time will tell if that is the case. After Evra's and Vidic's comments, clearly some of the squad see him as a disruptive influence.

Paul Tergat

Necronomicon wrote: »

I'm so disillusioned to be honest.

He acted like a knob-end, showed a complete lack of respect for the manager and his team mates by basically intimating that he was above them, even though he's the one that hasn't been able to hit a barn door in 7 months. And all, by the looks of it, a thinly veiled smokescreen for an extra few grand per week.

He's got some making up to do.

This kinda sums up my feelings.

Im definitely happy hes staying and hope we can kick on now.

Iago

5ForKeeps wrote: »

RasTa wrote: »

Please quote where United fans have forgiven him? You forgiven Gerrard for the same?

look at all the posts on here you will see how he has being forgiven. Gerrard did it twice and I still haven't forgiven him.

at a guess (and just roughly mind you) what % of United fans do you think are posting on boards.ie? and then what % of those have forgiven Rooney?

In overall terms, would you say the number "isn't statistically significant?"

monkey9

So Rooney puts out that statement, but then he thinks about things. He walks along the beach with his dog bouncing excitedly at his legs, skimming stones out across the ocean, cloudy memories above his head of his goal against Newcastle, himself and Ferguson sharing a joke at training, inserting his penis into those prostitutes vaginas all soundtracked by Celine Dion's All By Myself and decides to do the right and honourable thing.

He makes the brave decision and goes straight across to Carrington and signs that 200k a week contract.

Good man Wayne. Good man!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fs_9dT1LCKY

abouttobebanned

super_furry wrote: »

"Wayne Rooney, Rooney
He kisses the badge on his chest,
Then puts in a transfer request,
Wayne Rooney, Rooney"

*ahem*

To the tune of?

super_furry

abouttobebanned wrote: »

To the tune of?

Man United's Steven Gerrard song.

Dr.Winston O'Boogie

I don't get this...his reasons for leaving were that the future squad wasn't going to be good enough, that the club wouldn't have the funds to continue to compete.

2 days later and this situation has changed?!? Obviously not. They must of thrown more money at him. I would be very p1ssed off if I was the current United players, and also a United fan.

Of course they all know how important he is so they will forgive him. Joke.

Mitch Connor

Thanx 4 The Fish wrote: »

Not too many people play hardball with sir a and win. Fair play to him, got both things he wanted I would imagine. He must have had the assurances and obviously got the money too!

If he got the assurances he claimed he was looking for previously then I am delighted, cause I would like assurances on the same issues (but I am in no position to get them, unlike Rooney).

If it was all about money for Rooney, he would be gone, United could not match what City would offer so it simply can't just be about money (though getting as much as he could off United is obviously no small part of the issue).

Wayne is still a dope in my eyes, time heals and all that and he may well win us over, but for now he's still a spanner.

That said, Fergie = absolute managerial God. Played the whole thing beautifully.

FatherTed

How do we know how much the contract was for? Fergie already said it was a huge contract so why would Man Utd up the deal AFTER going public about it on Tuesday? That would not make sense. My guess is that Stretford thought he would play hard-ball by leaking stories to the press saying Rooney would not sign a new deal. Then Fergie called him out on it in the press conference on Tuesday. After seeing everyone's reaction, Rooney's camp realized they screwed up and ultimately came back to the table to sign the deal.

Rooney will now have to do what Rio did and win everyone back by keeping his head down and putting in good performances on the pitch.

Meanwhile Ben Hibs says on twitter

Just spoken to Fergie. He says Rooney's apologised to him and the players. 16 minutes ago via Twitter for iPhone

Mikeyt086

Quote of the day from a mate of mine of Facebook who was... Particularily vocal about cursing Wayne Rooney on Tuesday:

"I said some bad things, but I also cursed my mother out today... Doesnt mean im gonna hate her forever!"

5ForKeeps

Iago wrote: »

at a guess (and just roughly mind you) what % of United fans do you think are posting on boards.ie? and then what % of those have forgiven Rooney?

In overall terms, would you say the number "isn't statistically significant?"

A large percentage of the Utd support on this Island I would imagine unless they are still trolling the Liverpool forums. Whatever I say percentage won't matter but going on by a number of posts everyone is delighted despite him taking the piss out of your great club in the last number of days.

The overall significance will be seen in the coming weeks and months to what impact it has on him and the rest of your squad because he has made enemies within the squad.

mar-z

Iago wrote: »

1) Masterplan by Fergie to loosen the purse strings of the Glazers
2) Rooney acting like an ungrateful child and being rewarded for it
3) Fergie bringing him around at a reasonable agreement (until I see confirmed figures this is possible)
4) After a week of phonecalls, he realised that only City were willing to pay him enough money to switch so turned around
5) He gets a nice deal on a short term basis and united flog him at £50m at the end of this or next season

If we could guarantee to get the money for transfers I wouldn't mind option 5 to be honest. On form he is our best striker and a Berba Rooney partnership with both firing would be great to see at last but I'm seriously disillusioned about him now.

While he's a great striker we haven't been overly short of goals this season and we could strengthen other areas if he was gone.

If he stays he has it all to do to win (me anyway) the fans back.

Dermotsull13

After all the rubbish Dunphy talked on RTE Wednesday night he can go f*ck himself...absolute clown of a football analyst...

davyjose

chef wrote: »

I think xavi will need to change his sig now!!!!!
Was funny though.

Ahem!!!

BeanFlicker

Iago wrote: »

Genuinely not sure how to think about this.

1) Masterplan by Fergie to loosen the purse strings of the Glazers

i wouldn't be surprised if Ferguson was in on this aswell, Rooney the prized asset, imo he saw the leverage that he could have to buy some new players because rooney demands investment, specially with Utd supporters wanting the glazers out and loving rooney. it seems like a crazy u-turn, but wouldn't be surprised. jus my opinion

MisterAnarchy

niallo24 wrote: »

I don't get this...his reasons for leaving were that the future squad wasn't going to be good enough, that the club wouldn't have the funds to continue to compete.

2 days later and this situation has changed?!? Obviously not. They must of thrown more money at him. I would be very p1ssed off if I was the current United players, and also a United fan.

His reasons for threatening to leave were purely financial.
He was calling United's bluff and in a way they counter bluffed him.
Its been obvious from the start that it was all a stunt by Rooney to get a huge pay deal and he didnt really have any viable clubs he could move to.
http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showpost.php?p=68564297&postcount=134

Mitch Connor

niallo24 wrote: »

I don't get this...his reasons for leaving were that the future squad wasn't going to be good enough, that the club wouldn't have the funds to continue to compete.

2 days later and this situation has changed?!? Obviously not. They must of thrown more money at him. I would be very p1ssed off if I was the current United players, and also a United fan.

Of course they all know how important he is so they will forgive him. Joke.

well, it could change, actually.

In august (not two days ago) assurances were not given about future strengthening of the squad.

Over the last two days, possibly, discussions have taken place between United and Rooney/Reps in which assurances were given. Ergo things changed.

Possibly.

I'm sure more money helped, but he got have got a lot more at City so it can't be just about money.

Interestingly, rumours about United looking at Henderson and Rodwell have intesified over the last couple of days, and there was a lot of journo's talking about it this morning on twitter so maybe they have heard interest and moves for those two players were confirmed to Rooney.

RasTa

Iago wrote: »

at a guess (and just roughly mind you) what % of United fans do you think are posting on boards.ie? and then what % of those have forgiven Rooney?

In overall terms, would you say the number "isn't statistically significant?"

I've no idea say 20% on the soccer forum and the fans that will forgive him over this are Homerjay, PHB and Mitch.

Fizman

Player and club come out looking terrible here as far as I can see.

Rooney states that the club don't have the pulling power they once had and that he wants to leave. He then takes a massive pay increase, therefore eating into the clubs already waning finances. Where is the sense in that Wayne?

The club just look as if Rooney and his agents have bent them over backwards and anally raped them without any lube. The clubs finances (in this case its asshole) are hemorrhaging more than every.

I would genuinely love to know the opinions of Uniteds senior players here. What must Darren Fletcher be on? 50-60k at a guess? Is Rooney worth 4-5 times Darrens wage? Not in my book.

Necronomicon

5ForKeeps wrote: »

Quote, look at all the posts on here you will see how he has being forgiven.

Generalisations make Baby Jesus cry. Perhaps you conveniently missed the posts below.

The Muppet wrote: »

LOLZ . we must be no longer lacking ambition, Thank Jebus for that.


The Gob****e

Cleese wrote: »

I am a United fan and this is dispicable.

His antics are shocking, the money is obscene.

Bentlee Shy Toupee wrote: »

I second this. I think he has behaved disgracefully this week. He will need to improve a hell of a lot if he is to justify his place in the starting eleven given his sh1te performances this season.

Necronomicon wrote: »

I'm so disillusioned to be honest.

He acted like a knob-end, showed a complete lack of respect for the manager and his team mates by basically intimating that he was above them, even though he's the one that hasn't been able to hit a barn door in 7 months. And all, by the looks of it, a thinly veiled smokescreen for an extra few grand per week.

He's got some making up to do.

neil.p.b

I've being saying all week that he wasn't going anywhere. It was just Rooney playing chicken with the club. He obviously just thought that to get the assurances he wanted or to get a bigger salary, he had to pull a stunt like this, with the fergie and gill anyway. But fergie, genius that he is, made it public and turned the whole thing around on him. I guarantee that Rooney never wanted or intended to leave the club. He was just an idiot thinking he could play mind games with the master.

But i don't buy into fergie masterminding this to get more money from the glazers, if he wanted to put pressure on them all he'd have to do is say to them, give me more money or else i'm going to quit.

Jazzy

only one thing to say really

lolololololololololololol

mar-z

I will also be interested to see the effect on the rest of the squad after the player who said they weren't good enough to match his ambition gets rewarded with a shiny new contract.

I hope it spurs them on but it can't make for a comfortable dressing room.

davyjose

Rooney will never be the same to me, in terms of the way I supported him. But i'm glad he's signed.

It absolutely was the money, IMO. He got a decent lump, not as much as City could have paid him, but hey, he probably likes us slightly better. It also means there's a likelihood there's a few bob more to spend than people reckon -- speculate to accumulate, etc. etc. -- but I'm happier than I was yesterday, truth be told!