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Gaming › Re: FIFA 15 Nigeria Fan Thread by coogar: 3:42pm On May 28, 2015
abbeymaniak:
Already update to 4.70 b4 I even startd playing games on it
your service provider is at fault then.
take your console to any of your friends place and see if it works. that error was a problem around february for some gamers & an update was released to solve the issue.
Gaming › Re: FIFA 15 Nigeria Fan Thread by coogar: 3:30pm On May 28, 2015
abbeymaniak:
Baba abeg gimme ur number I need talk to u ooo, i'm still getting d msg" you cannot sign in using another person id". 08142525873 abeg flash me i'll call u
that would be later in the day....
you shouldn't have any problems after changing the DNS. if you change the DNS & you are still having this problem then you have not updated your software since feb this year. get that done ASAP!

update the software, restart, change the DNS abd sign in.
Family › Re: Boys Night Out Discussions by coogar: 3:23pm On May 28, 2015
TV01: How many women have missed that opportunity and lived fearfully for most of the marriages - or ultimately seen them break - because they couldn't tell the truth. Nothing like a union built on a foundation of total honesty and openess. Bliss.

Funny, instead of challenging women to be morally upright and place a high premium - virginity anyone? - on themselves there's a cadre of "aunties" on this board who encourage women to slut around, "test" grin and use lies, deceit and manipulation to snare men and secure their marriages.
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European Football (EPL, UEFA, La Liga) › Re: Official Manchester United Fan Thread:''20 Times EPL Champion by coogar: 3:07pm On May 28, 2015
sinizia:
Sometimes i don't get this Elampawa guy. Who the fúck will talk about Ozil or buy Ozil if not for his assists and ability to create chances for the strikers? Who in his sane mind will talk about Rooney and leave out goals and talk about the assist he will create? When Chelshit was coming for Rooney, is it not for him to attack? If Chelshit had gotten Rooney would Costa still be bought? I don't even know you are still arguing this with Elams, he'll never agree with anybody.
elampawa is a rooney fan through & through. even when rooney produced the worst performance of any striker in a man utd shirt against bayern munich last season, elampiro praised him that he had a brilliant game. grin

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cheiiii.......this dybala na talent.
pace, verve, guile, panache, agility, ridiculous dribbling skills, shots. he's an all rounder. this is the kinda players we should be breaking the bank to get.

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European Football (EPL, UEFA, La Liga) › Re: Official Manchester United Fan Thread:''20 Times EPL Champion by coogar: 2:41pm On May 28, 2015
raumdeuter:
You can only admire Lewandowski you can't touch him

We can give you Dante though in exchange for Mata
buhahaha.....
your club isn't as rich as ours. watch out for the raid at munich. bastian & robert are on their way to OT! you heard it here first. cheesy
European Football (EPL, UEFA, La Liga) › Re: Official Manchester United Fan Thread:''20 Times EPL Champion by coogar: 2:33pm On May 28, 2015
weedtaker:
now you are talking, but he can be our new van persie(1 season wonder, nd delivers the title on a plate)., de problem is his transfer fee, its too high, you should not also forget that we do have a winger who has eyes for goal, and is less concerned about providing assist for teammates and that is memphis depay, so a young striker with all around play will get the best out of depay and de team too, cuz we'll set up in de traditional 4 3 3 next season jxt lyk madrid bayern nd barca, we need a player similar to the wayne rooney of 2005-09.. And i've not yet seen someone like that, though i've not watched lacazette nd dyabala maybe dey do posses such qualities, someone should give use clue about this guys
lewandowski is also fine.
he doesn't deserve that yeye bayern club. without robben & ribery providing the ammo, he was a bit goal-shy and he was unfairly criticised.

lacazette is a raw talent. young, highly mobile & his penetrative runs are world class. just imagine saha in 03/04 with the deadly finish of van nistelrooy. dybala seems to have completed his medical in turin so he's certainly juventus-bound.
Gaming › Re: FIFA 15 Nigeria Fan Thread by coogar: 2:28pm On May 28, 2015
abbeymaniak:
Error code 80710092,
it's a DNS problem.

change your DNS(primary & secondary) and you should be ok.
European Football (EPL, UEFA, La Liga) › Re: Official Manchester United Fan Thread:''20 Times EPL Champion by coogar: 1:25pm On May 28, 2015
weedtaker:
so na zidane go stop madrid from getting a prolific striker abi?, falcao, aguero, suarez would still stay below Ronaldo in the goal scoring charts, they are clinical in front of goal than benzema but their overall play are not better than his, benzema's rate of 1.8 key passes per game, how many pure forwards can match that? In the last 3years, he's simply de BEST. And if he cums to united he'll score 30+ league goals
we can do better than benzema....
please, drop the idea. sweet jesus, he would be 28 this year. not another OAP that would stop performing in another 1-2 seasons.

let's find a younger talent.
Gaming › Re: FIFA 15 Nigeria Fan Thread by coogar: 1:15pm On May 28, 2015
abbeymaniak:
no my console isn't bricked cos I use disc but i'll try wat u said and get bck to u, but isit possible i'm using disc and d console has been bricked cos I was told I could only download package games on it.
how would you know your console isn't bricked? what's the error code you get when you tried logging in?
European Football (EPL, UEFA, La Liga) › Re: Official Manchester United Fan Thread:''20 Times EPL Champion by coogar: 1:11pm On May 28, 2015
elampiro:
Now:
1. How many total shots did Chicharito took? We can work it our visavis Rooney. We also look at the area the shots were taken. I will bring it out later myself.
the numbers are grim!
rooney took 102 shots(open play) in 11/12, chicharito took only 36 shots(open play). i ignored set pieces cos that would be your excuse that rooney took freekicks & penalties.

2. As for Assists, hahahahaha. Something you used to promote Ozil when he just arrived EPL. Now it's useless. You even used it to promote Mata over Hazard and Oscar about 16 months back. Coogar I hail you o. Alaiye baba. grin
is ozil a striker?
why would ozil's assist not feature when he has never ever played as a centre forward? elampawa, compare like for like abeg.
Gaming › Re: FIFA 15 Nigeria Fan Thread by coogar: 1:08pm On May 28, 2015
abbeymaniak:
i'm using my bb10 glo connection, I avnt done wat u told me but later wen I tried login it says "you cannot sign in using another person's id" but i'm actually using my psn id and password. Pls help, pls can I have u number so dat u can put me tru.
enter your correct ID.
your email & your PSN password. go to settings > network > internet.

set up your internet.
are you wired or wireless? just keep going & when you get to DNS, edit the default to the number i gave you.

you should be able to go on........unless your console has been bricked or your PSN-ID has been hacked.
European Football (EPL, UEFA, La Liga) › Re: Official Manchester United Fan Thread:''20 Times EPL Champion by coogar: 1:00pm On May 28, 2015
weedtaker:
i would've loved to continue dis arguement, but ur post signifies only one thing "YOU DISLIKE HIM" when ronaldo became united hitman how many of our strikers scored 20+ goals in the epl? Tevez rooney berbetov saha and alan smith? Which one? When david villa came to dat great barca team how many league goals him score? Ibrahimovic nkor? Dat 11/12 season de centre forward position was shared between hiquain and benzema, both of them scoring 22 and 21 goals respectively with benzema leading hiquain with 6assist to hiquain's 5. Hiquain was sold and he remained, morata too was sold and he still remained, u think say madrid and dia supporters blind? Just say you hate his style of play, not that he's a useless player.
with zidane firmly behind him, he will not go anywhere. that centre forward position has been their blindspot for years. is it so much for madrid to have acquired any of falcao, aguero, suarez, etc in the last 2-3 seasons?

would you put benzema in your top 10 strikers in europe in the last 6 seasons? seriously - would you?

elampiro:
I will be back later pls.
I will investigate that Cicharito's shots claim. I will bring it out easily. Shots per minutes played.
go & investigate - then come back and tell us why rooney more than doubled chicharito's number of shots. if rooney was playing in the hole, that hole must have been in the 6-yard box. cheesy
European Football (EPL, UEFA, La Liga) › Re: Official Manchester United Fan Thread:''20 Times EPL Champion by coogar: 12:55pm On May 28, 2015
elampiro:
I missed this post.

I meant Rooney was in central midfield vs Stoke, vs West Ham, vs Villa on the day we won the league in our three nil win over Villa. When he gave RVP the Assists for the best goal of the season, Rooney was playing in the central midfield.

He was in the wing in Madrid and some league games. There was a certain game he was awarded the MOTM after he score the two goals from the right wing. Although left wing his his better wing position

It's hard to follow all the post when one is busy and there were three people arguing with me.
biko, stop colouring the argument!
we don't care about rooney's stats in european games - every man & his dog know he was often the sacrificial lamb in those games cos we don't do 4-4-2 in europe.

we are concerned about league games only - thus the constant reference to his 187 EPL goals - we are focusing on the league games not european games so all those your references to the games in roma, madrid, barcelona, etc are highly irrelevant.
European Football (EPL, UEFA, La Liga) › Re: Official Manchester United Fan Thread:''20 Times EPL Champion by coogar: 12:52pm On May 28, 2015
elampiro:
So you mean Chcihairo who was the top striker, who usualy was isolated up front had 1 shot in 90 minutes?
This sounds true to you?
chicharito's number of minutes in 11/12 & 10/11 were similar. he had 1477 mins in 11/12 & 1482 mins in 10/11. his shots per game in 11/12 was 1.7 & it was 2 shots per game in 10/11(his most prolific season for us).

so how come rooney was able to cop double the amount of chicharito's most prolific season in the hole? come on - you should know your theory doesn't add up that rooney was in the hole in 11/12. he played alongside chicharito that season & this was why he was angry when he was dropped behind RVP the following season.


What about his Assists? Rooney kind of football is one who complement with midfield duties, like tracking Michael Essien in our two legged UCL fixtures.
assists?
who remembers assists when talking about the football greats like messi, ronaldo, falcao, RVP, henry? like i have said.....rooney's poor performance as a goalscorer is the reason irrelevant stats get brought up.

with rooney - you have to consider his form, fitness, starting position, defensive contribution, weather, oversized boots, family issues, etc when talking about his goal stats. he's a mediocre player. only mediocre players need a boat load of excuses to perform.

This is why you and I saw Robben differently two years back. You and your apostles said Robben was not worth more than 15 to 20 million and I said he was worth about 40 to over 50 million. You were looking at figures, I was looking at his overall contribution. Same way we saw Hazard differently this last season. You always look at figures alone.
hazard is wack!
as a player, he is not as good as david silva. you kowtow opinions while i stick with facts produced by simple statistics.

robben is a good player but at his age, no one would pay more than £15m for him. he's hardly fit & he is not marketable enough to sell shirts. the value of players goes beyond pitch performance.

Even thought, Rooney figures Assists+Goals are not bad, they are very good but not excellent. You are entitled to your opinion though and and also allowed to have disciples and apostles in your ministry or school of though. But they never represent the club's opinion or his various managers opinions.
they are very bad!
we are talking about 13 seasons here. 13 full seasons of football & he's got only 187 league goals to show for it. it is atrocious - you can paint it anyhow you want. ronaldo only just completed his 6th season in madrid, do we need to remind you how many league goals he's scored in spain as a winger?
Gaming › Re: FIFA 15 Nigeria Fan Thread by coogar: 12:38pm On May 28, 2015
abbeymaniak:
Pls i'm having error code 80710092 while trying to log in to my psn on my ps3. Wat can I do pls? I'm also getting dis msg wen I tried loggin on on my console but I can log on pc angry wat might b wrong.
change your DNS to 8.8.4.4(manual settings) and your MTU to 1473.
European Football (EPL, UEFA, La Liga) › Re: Official Manchester United Fan Thread:''20 Times EPL Champion by coogar: 12:25pm On May 28, 2015
elampiro:
Chacharito's figues are low because of his supersub roles. A player who is usually substituted and comes in late like 78th minutes wouldnt take many shots in few minutes played.
this is untrue....

On the second part of your posts, you are saying now that his about 187 EPL goals + 94 Assists are a justification of his EPL legendary status. Yori Yori. Nomatter where he has played, he has been productive.
i am saying his 187 EPL goals in 13 seasons is a disgrace to him especially when he's been a constant feature in the most dominant team in the land.
European Football (EPL, UEFA, La Liga) › Re: Official Manchester United Fan Thread:''20 Times EPL Champion by coogar: 12:02pm On May 28, 2015
elampiro:
Now I know where your problem is coming from- whoscored.

We had this argument before in January 2013 and I showed you from Zonal marking post match analysis that Rooney and Chacharito were splited apart. Rooney was behind Chicharito. Chicharito had about 14 matches cummlatively susing 90 mins to divide total time played.
I also showed you about Welbeck.

Now we had SAF and Rooney confirming Rooney played BEHIND THE STRIKER.
rooney played behind the striker but it was rooney that recorded 4.6 shots per game to chicharito's 1.7 shots per game. grin

rooney took 14 shots in the 6-yard box, 59 shots in the penalty area & 84 shots from outside the box in 11/12 season.

on top of it all, rooney had only 4 league assists to show for that season and you are lying to us rooney played in the hole. grin


elampiro:
Where did Rooney scored from against Liverpool in our 3-0 win. Rooney scored 12 league gials, are you saying all were from the number 9 and 10?
you are only buttressing my point.....
the fact that rooney wasn't played as the lead striker in some games does not diminish his scoring ability.

it doesn't mean if he gets a chance in the box, he would miss. football is fluid....smalling scored 4 league goals this season, is he a striker?

you would find out that in all those games rooney dropped deep under SAF, he still had chances to put the ball in the net but he missed.

he missed because he's a poor footballer not because of his starting position. a world class player would get goals no matter where he finds himself.
European Football (EPL, UEFA, La Liga) › Re: Official Manchester United Fan Thread:''20 Times EPL Champion by coogar: 11:42am On May 28, 2015
parrotibaba:
ur problem is ur lack of accepting ur mistakes ,if I didn't bring dis screenshots as evidence u would hv vehemently denied dat u never said anything like dat ... here u r arguing dat Rooney played in d hole for united except d 2009/2010 season ,by den u said he was a winger for united for much of his career at united with d 2009/2010 season an exception ...


Now u r using Valencia as an excuse ,were u not d one dat was mentioning d various years he was a winger at united with d support of d various articles u sprouted out during d course of d argument ... u goofed up big time
you don't seem to know elampawa......
he has to somehow justify rooney's poor performance as a striker so he brings up ridiculous excuses as the reasons rooney isn't prolific. however, people who watch united know rooney's problem has little to do with the position he takes, he's just a very poor footballer.

do you know how many goals herrera has scored for us this year in spite of his limited appearances? when rooney played in herrera's position, he was firing blanks. do you know how many goals mata has scored from his wide position for us? when rooney found himself in same position, he produced next to nothing.

weedtaker:
In the last 2 UCL seasons he's the most productive(goals+assist) player (behind ronaldo and messi), in the last 3 la liga seasons he's the 3rd best goal provider (behind messi and koke), he has scored all the current la liga teams (only messi nd ronaldo hav done dat) he has scored 20+ goals in 5 consecutive seasons and he's not even the team's point man. Coogar nd co... Abeg make una bring me stats wey make Karim mostafa Benzema "USELESS"
has benzema ever won the pichichi?
how can you rate a striker that has never scored 22 league goals in one season in spain? this is the same madrid side that scored more than 100+ league goals when jose was there. abeg, benzema is useless. with the quality in the team he plays for, he should be averaging 30 league goals per season.
European Football (EPL, UEFA, La Liga) › Re: Official Manchester United Fan Thread:''20 Times EPL Champion by coogar: 11:34am On May 28, 2015
elampiro:
Yes. He played against Stoke, West Ham, Villa and others in the wing while Kagawa took more advanced role.
so central midfield is now the wing? grin
European Football (EPL, UEFA, La Liga) › Re: Official Manchester United Fan Thread:''20 Times EPL Champion by coogar: 11:24am On May 28, 2015
elampiro:
Here they were talking about Rooney playing in central midfield, not in the hole.
so when did rooney play in the central midfield in 2012/13? we had anderson, cleverley, kagawa, giggs, carrick, fletcher, jones, scholes, etc in the central midfield.

your inconsistency in your argument is shocking
Gaming › Re: FIFA 15 Nigeria Fan Thread by coogar: 12:06am On May 28, 2015
it's getting ridiculous now.....
ronaldo gets another special card? how many cards can one player have in one FUT season?

99 ronaldo TOTY
97 ronaldo RB
96 ronaldo MOTM
95 ronaldo FIF
94 ronaldo TIF
93 ronaldo SIF
92 ronaldo NIF

European Football (EPL, UEFA, La Liga) › Re: Official Manchester United Fan Thread:''20 Times EPL Champion by coogar: 12:02am On May 28, 2015
tess1:
Drogba didn't measure up because he is an out and out striker and Chelsea rarely adopt a 442 flat system. He doesn't share the burden of scoring with any other striker in the system they play.
chelsea played 4-3-3 or at best 4-2-3-1 when they signed essien in 05/06. drogba always functioned as a lone striker. the formation changed slightly when they signed shevchenko in 06/07 to 4-1-2-1-2(diamond 4-4-2) but mourinho quickly binned sheva and went back to his 4-2-3-1.

in all this time, SAF was still stuck to his 4-4-2. carlos queiroz convinced fergie to dump the formation in europe & be more conservative in his approach. even then, against the smaller sides in the EPL, 4-4-2 was our default formation.
European Football (EPL, UEFA, La Liga) › Re: Official Manchester United Fan Thread:''20 Times EPL Champion by coogar: 11:57pm On May 27, 2015
elampiro:
If you play behind a striker you are in the 'hole'. An AM.

In 4-4-2 the two strikers are on same line or virtually on same line always.
so who was the AM between yorke & cole? who was the AM between shearer & sutton? who was the AM between shevchenko & rebrov?

tess1:
It is the formation that will determine whether someone is in the hole or not. There is nothing like "Hole" in 442 flat formation.
That was because he was being moved about in the forward position when Tevez and Ronaldo were still around.
elampiro sees hole in 4-4-2.
i think this is the height of his opata yarns. which hole? grin
European Football (EPL, UEFA, La Liga) › Re: Official Manchester United Fan Thread:''20 Times EPL Champion by coogar: 11:05pm On May 27, 2015
elampiro:
Where did SAF say that? That's from you.

SAF said he had alway depoyed Rooney behind the striker. He said this when United signed Ashley Young.

Rooney himself Said he has always played behind the striker. He even challenged SAF to play him as a striker in 2009/10 season.
so any player who plays behind the striker is automatically an AM or automatically plays in the hole? are you even aware there's a difference between AM & SS(supporting striker or second striker?)

rooney played ahead of tevez in 07/08 whenever we played 4-4-2.....yet, you are telling us here that rooney has always played behind a striker. which is which?

tess1:
Rooney has always been played majorly as a striker in the 442 formation used mostly during Fergie's era. It is only when we are playing a big team in the league and most especially in Europe that he changes his formation when he wants to make it difficult for opponents to beat us.
that was how i remember those seasons too. i still watched our season review DVD of 07/08. rooney was a striker. he wasn't an AM at all. he didn't even have the qualities of an AM. carrick was the deep lying midfielder & scholes were in the advanced role.

It was after he bought RVP in 2013/14 that he dropped Rooney to play in the midfield so as to be able to accommodate him in the team with RVP.
i agree with this.....
rooney also played as a 2-pronged attack in 11/12 season. he formed a great partnership with welbz or chicharito. it was in 12/13 that fergie dropped him completely in the hole. scholes had lost his box to box ability then so we had to use 2DMs.
European Football (EPL, UEFA, La Liga) › Re: Official Manchester United Fan Thread:''20 Times EPL Champion by coogar: 10:41pm On May 27, 2015
slimghost:
God bless you for affirming that the 'french pig' is useless. Now Reus is not an out and out striker and can never guarantee you 25goals a season(his nain strength lies with his creativity). Dybala is off to Juve almost certainly. So that leaves Lewy and Lacazzate. Honestly,I had take Lewy any day anytime.
if LVG cannot bully teams like juventus then we should start looking for another manager. juventus? their club value is less than what we paid to grow grass @carrington complex!

adidas deal kicks off next month or so......we are back in europe. we are in the same echelon as madrid & barca. we should naturally get what we want. we need 2 young strikers next season.
European Football (EPL, UEFA, La Liga) › Re: Official Manchester United Fan Thread:''20 Times EPL Champion by coogar: 10:29pm On May 27, 2015
elampiro:
All these are lies or statemnts from your imagination due to your poisoned mind towards Rooney.

In 2011 SAF said he played Rooney BEHIND the striker. I will be back tomorrow.
coogar: it wasn't until 09/10 that fergie changed his formation in the league & that was after ronaldo left
sometimes i wonder if you read & understand!
Gaming › Re: FIFA 15 Nigeria Fan Thread by coogar: 10:21pm On May 27, 2015
moonraker:
Alright lads, I am back where i belong... div 2.

Nay tips on how to stay there or possibly advance??
stuck in division 2.
this is my second season there. i have played 3 games, won 2 and lost 1. too many good players in this division & please watch out for ELO. ELO determines who you would meet. the closer you are to promotion, the harder the opponents you would face.......and i have been told majority of the opponents you would face are actually in division 1.

to avoid ELO's wahala, log out & log in after each game. the ELO refreshes and you should get an average opponent. grin the time of the day is also a big factor. after 6pm UK time, the best players are back from work & they are online. grin
European Football (EPL, UEFA, La Liga) › Re: Official Manchester United Fan Thread:''20 Times EPL Champion by coogar: 10:14pm On May 27, 2015
elampiro:
Gbam! Rooney himslef said He had been playing behind the striker before 2008 and he was (now) trying to play on same line as Tevez. Tevez trying to make Rooney move up front closer instead of far behind.

In 2011 SAF said he had always deployed Rooney as number 10.

Rooney is 10 but that doesn't mean he didn't occassionally play as a winger or central midfielder or striker.
rooney has always played as a striker. it's his lack of positional discipline that had him dropping deep to search for the ball. capello, sven-goran eriksson & ferguson always complained then that rooney gets too much attracted to the ball.

against the weaker teams(majority of the league games) in the EPL, we played a flat 4-4-2. in europe, the objective is not to concede so we often went with 4-5-1/4-3-3. using number-10 angle to excuse rooney's poor goal return is ridiculous.
European Football (EPL, UEFA, La Liga) › Re: Official Manchester United Fan Thread:''20 Times EPL Champion by coogar: 9:47pm On May 27, 2015
slimghost:
Benzema is not better than Rooney! and Neymar and Muller are not out and out strikers. Still you are entitled to your opinion bro.
benzema is one of the most useless strikers i have had to watch. he's not better than rooney. without zidane's protection, he would have been shipped off eons ago. he's the reason madrid haven't achieved much since florentino perez came back.

he has consistently been the weakest forward in the last 6 seasons or so. had madrid gotten any of david villa, falcao or aguero when they were tearing la liga apart, madrid would have achieved so much more. we are better than signing benzema.

we should look at.....

•reus
•lacazette
•dybala
•lewandowski
Family › Re: To Women: I Beg You by coogar: 2:47pm On May 27, 2015
dinachi:
Please wash and clean your pus5ies! This issue have crashed many relationships. Just now a long time friend called with the news that he is breaking up with his fiancee because she stinks terribly down there. I tried to encourage him to see if it is a medical situation or just poor hygiene but the guy had simply had enough and will not be talked out of it.
Some guys are just too embarrassed about the situation to be open to their other halfs about it but the truth be told a terribly smelling puzzy is dangerous to health. Nuff said!
what your friend did is bad for the men out there. he is running from the problem for another innocent man to inherit. he has proposed to her - he should help the lady get a solution instead of running away.
European Football (EPL, UEFA, La Liga) › Re: Official Manchester United Fan Thread:''20 Times EPL Champion by coogar: 2:38pm On May 27, 2015
the report is untrue....

European Football (EPL, UEFA, La Liga) › Re: Official Manchester United Fan Thread:''20 Times EPL Champion by coogar: 1:12pm On May 27, 2015
sinizia:
So for all those seasons Rooney was playing 10, what was Scholes' position? Please don't write an article, just tell me Scholes' position since Rooney was paying 10 for 10 seasons out of his total 11 for Man Utd.
rooney was a striker....
it's his lack of goal scoring that made the media brand him a number-10. which number-10, i ask? fergie used 4-4-2 throughout in that era - fergie was the last manager to abandon 4-4-2 in the premier league. it wasn't until 09/10 that fergie changed his formation in the league & that was after ronaldo left.

saying rooney was a number-10 in that era would be the same as saying yorke or andy cole was a number-10 in 1999. rooney was a striker like saha, ruud, bellion & solksjaer in his first 4-5 seasons. his fans only use this excuse because they know he doesn't measure up to the elite strikers in europe.

this was rooney's interview in 2008....


Q: How do you feel you’re developing as a striker – would you liken yourself to any of the aforementioned front men?

rooney:
Not really. I think it’s difficult for you to compare yourself to someone else, but I certainly hope I can become as good as them.

I’ve definitely changed the way I play this season in the fact that I’ve played further up front rather than in behind a main striker; that’s something Carlos has done.

I’d probably say I’ve enjoyed that role more as you seem to get more chances and hopefully that means I’ll end up with more goals.

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