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texaco1: Van persie can't do rooneys job,rooney is a player that can change things ,I have always regarded him more than cr7

Van Persie won't be much of a threat to us. All in all I don't think Moyes would be able to achieve much with Man Utd in the foreseeable future cos Man Utd is a club with complex structures.

Nothing has been confirmed yet, at least not at the time of writing this post, but let’s assume Wayne Rooney swaps the Red Devils shirt for the iconic Blue uniform of the Southwest London outfit, who and who might be on their way out of Stamford Bridge? Which player or players are Chelsea willing to sacrifice? That remains the big question as there are some playing departments in the team which are not the way they should be, but if the worst comes to the worst, one or more players would have to look for another club in order to make room for any big summer signing that is to join the lads at the Cobhams training ground. This is what I will be looking at in this post.

Just yesterday it was revealed in the
media that Chelsea's request to Manchester United for the transfer of their disaffected striker, Wayne Rooney, was turned down. This was after I published a post weighing the possibilities of Rooney making the move to Chelsea. I wrote on how possible it would be for him to join Chelsea, but the club went a step further (and I was left surprised by the speed at which they did it) by making an official bid for England's talisman. The chances of Rooney joining the Blues are there and I would be the least surprised person on Earth if Rooney is unveiled as a Chelsea player before the end of this month. And it would prove crucial for Chelsea if he does that as it is going to give him considerable time to gel with the team and adjust to life in one of Manchester United's fiercest rivals for over a decade now. It won't be an easy transition I must say, but it is up to the backroom staff, the players and the coach to make him feel at home at Stamford Bridge.

More at http://wearebluesforever..com/2013/07/rooney-in-who-out.html?m=1

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Saturday

Liverpool vs Stoke City
Sunderland vs Fulham
West Brom vs Southampton
Swansea VS Man Utd
West Ham VS Cardiff City
Norwich City vs Everton
Arsenal vs Aston villa

Sunday

Crystal Palace vs Tottenham
Chelsea vs Hull City

Monday

Man City vs Newcastle United

The EPL season will officially kick off on the 17th of August with a couple of mouthwatering ties already lined up in the first three weeks. For example, Chelsea will square off against Manchester United at Old Trafford in what will be new manager Jose Mourinho's first real test of the season and this match comes up in barely 4 weeks' time. Things will even get tougher for Man Utd manager, David Moyes, the following week as his side will battle it out with perennial foes, Liverpool, at Anfield; while Arsenal will slug it out with their North London archenemies, Tottenham Hotspur, in what is the first derby of the season later on the same day...

Source: http://wearebluesforever..com/2013/07/countdown-to-epl-1-30-days-to-go.html

Good match by Chelsea, though they decided to take their foot off the pedal in the 2nd half. Demba Ba missed a couple of chances, while De Bruyne was very promising throughout the match. Hazard was impressive as well and Wallace was great in the first half. It's a good start for Chelsea and Mourinho can now have a clearer look into the team and see where he needs to make some changes and adjustments. The striking position needs to be bolstered cos Ba was not quite impressive today

It's just a trick by Mourinho to know how willing United would like to hold on to chelsea. Be that as it may be, just like I pointed out on my Chelsea blog http://wearebluesforever..com it's clear that Rooney is Chelsea-bound cos he has already made up his mind about leaving Man Utd and Chelsea is the only club that has a realistic chance of signing him. He doesn't want to go to Manchester City, Arsenal cannot afford Suarez, Higuain and Rooney together, Barcelona are not looking for an established world class player and PSG have already signed Cavani and they have Ibra. That leaves Chelsea and Real in the equation, but Rooney would rather stay in England than start a new life in Spain.

Meanwhile impressive performances from De Bruyne, Wallace and Schurrle.

Half-time. Still 1-0 to the Europa League winners who dominated in the first-half. Almost the entire team would be changed in the second half. Chelsea's latest signing, van Ginkel is set to make his debut in the second half.

The match is already under way. Score 1-0 to Chelsea. Romelu Lukaku scores from the penalty after Chelsea's new boy Wallace is brought down in the penalty box

Match day squad

GK: Cech (FH), Blackman (SH);

DF: Wallace (FH), Kalas (FH), Terry (FH), Cole (FH), Ivanoviic (SH), Cahill (SH), Chalobah (SH), Bertrand (SH);

MF: Lampard (FH), Essien (FH), Piazon (FH), De Bruyne (FH), Andre Schurrle (FH), Van Ginkel (SH), Ramires (SH), Moses (SH), De Bruyne (SH), Hazard (SH);

FW: Lukaku (FH), Ba (SH).

*FH means first half
SH means second half

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A relationship that has increasingly become strained over the past seven months has now reached a point where it could be described as a state of no return. Wayne Rooney’s beleaguered relationship with his Manchester united employers seemingly reached a point of total breakdown today after it was reported that the former Old Trafford darling and fan favourite is angry and confused at Manager David Moyes' declaration that Rooney would still have to settle for a role as a backup to Robin van Persie. Rooney’s woes at Manchester United can be traced back to their champions league round of 16 second-leg cracker with a Jose Mourinho-tutored Real Madrid side at old Trafford which was billed at the time as the biggest match of the season for United. It turned out to not only be the biggest match of the season for United, but also the most controversial. Not only did Real Madrid secure a victory over the Premier League giants in controversial circumstances, but then-manager Sir Alex Ferguson took the controversial decision of leaving out Wayne Rooney. He dropped him to the bench in favour of the more experienced – and older – Ryan Giggs in a match they needed to win at all costs, having secured an impressive draw in the first leg at Santiago Bernabeu after being battered and outclassed by Madrid’s flambouyant attack led by ex-Man Utd man, Cristiano Ronaldo, for much of the first half. Rooney was sidelined in favour of £23m summer arrival from Arsenal, Robin van Persie.

This decision did not go down well with the ill-tempered Wayne Rooney after it became clear what his position and importance to the club was. Indeed, it all began with the arrival of the flying Dutchman who netted 30 goals in the 2011/2012 season before his arrival at the Old Trafford outfit. Rooney had to settle for a deeper role in United’s less-than-reliable midfield instead of his preferred role as the front man. Throughout the season, Rooney’s goals return was spectacularly overshadowed by that of the Dutch captain, netting a measly 12 goals as against 26 for van Persie who incidentally ended up as the English Premier League's top scorer again, for the second consecutive season, though he, Rooney, played only 26 games and van Persie ended up playing in all of United's Premier League games. This is in addition to Rooney being stripped of his position as Manchester United’s designated penalty taker. This bitter relationship reached a crescendo in the said 2nd leg match with Real Madrid in a must win game for the Red Devils. Rooney again had to settle for a place behind star man RVP, but not only that, he was dropped entirely from the starting eleven and had to watch the greater part of the match from the bench like every other spectator who paid close to a thousand pounds for the opportunity.

Rooney was eventually brought into the match when it became clear that thinker-man Alex Ferguson’s match tactics were not going according to plan, but it was perhaps a case of too little, too late. I was particularly glad that Rooney did not lose his cool the way ex-Manchester City captain and now Juventus number 10, Carlos Tevez, did in that unforgettable and infamous Bayern Munich fiasco. When it became glaringly clear that there was no proverbial light at the end of the dark tunnel for Wayne Rooney, he made up his mind and tendered a transfer request to Man Utd offials in March, as confirmed by the then-outgoing United manager, Sir Alex. As was expected, the request was rejected and was even denied in some quarters at the club.

The relationship turned from very bitter to acidic in May when it was announced that David Moyes was Sir Alex’s handpicked choice to succeed him at the helm of footballing affairs at Old Trafford. This was a man that sued Rooney in 2008 for libel and also the man who gave him his first shot at the limelight way back at Everton when the going was good. To him (Rooney), this was the straw that broke the camel’s back. There was no way he was going to mend his relationship with David Moyes – or United. His mind was made up and it became clear to everyone that he was leaving. As if that was not enough, the tumultuous relation with United hit another low last weekend when Rooney had to pull out of United’s preseason tour of Australia and Europe which led David Moyes saying and I quote "Overall, my thought on Wayne is that if for any reason we had an injury to Robin van Persie we are going to need him, I want as many options as possible”. This statement, once again, left Rooney fuming as the manager confirmed the obvious: there was no way Rooney was going to reclaim his starring role from Robin van Persie even if he had entertained slim hopes of doing so.

That was it! He could take the insults and humiliations no more and Rooney now seems bent on abandoning the Old Trafford side, a side that he had played with for nine seasons, making 277 appearances and scoring 141 goals, winning 5 English Premier League trophies and a Champions League glory in2008 at the expense of Chelsea in the process.

Now the big question is: Where will Wayne Rooney go to?

here has been reports that Wayne Rooney has courted interest from a couple of big names in world football, with Arsenal, Chelsea, Real Madrid and PSG among the leading candidates. But with PSG confirming yesterday that they have secured the services of the lethal Uruguayan hit-man Edison Cavani (and they already have Zlatan Ibrahimovic in their ranks) and Arsenal, who are not known for their financial extravagancy, reportedly on their way to signing a host of top-class players in the likes of Gonzalo Higuain and Luis Suarez it means that Chelsea and Real Madrid are the only clubs that are realistically in the running to secure the services of Wayne Rooney. However, Real Madrid’s helmsman and former Chelsea honcho who replaced Jose Mourinho at the Santiago Bernabeu club, have so far shown little or no interest in securing the services of the England's number 10, having recently added Illarramendi to their ranks and are still on the look out for exciting, young players who can play tiki-taka football.

This analogy leaves Chelsea as the only realistic candidates in the “race” to sign Wayne Rooney. A whole lot of Chelsea stalwarts have been stoking the fire of recent, with Chelsea manager Jose Mourinho making no secrets of his admiration for the Englishman by heaping praises on him and telling the media how terrible it would be for England’s Three Lions at next year’s FIFA World Cup in Brazil should Rooney be reduced to a bit-part role at Manchester United should Moyes make do his threats. A couple of Chelsea players like second vice-captain Petr Cech have also said that they would welcome Rooney at Chelsea with open arms, should he decide to swap the rowdy central city of Manchester, for the serene estates of Fulham, London. In addition to that, Chelsea have also gone the furthest by reportedly tabling a £10m-plus-Luiz-or-Mata bid for Wayne Rooney which was rejected by Manchester United this morning and Mourinho has once been reported to have been on the verge of swooping Rooney from Manchester United in his first stint as Chelsea boss.


Read more: http://thechelseablueblood..com/2013/07/rooney-to-chelsea.html
http://www.goal.com/en-gb/news/2892/transfer-zone/2013/07/17/4123027/rooneys-relationship-with-manchester-united-reaches-total?ICID=CP_96

Manchester United have rejected Chelsea's stunning opening offer of £10 million plus Juan Mata or David Luiz for their disgruntled striker Wayne Rooney.

United immediately rejected the bid on Tuesday night and insist Rooney is not for sale, despite the player's desire to quit Old Trafford following the total breakdown of his relationship with the club.
Rooney is understood to have expressed a desire to join Chelsea and the Londoners are expected to return with an improved offer.

The news that Chelsea are prepared to part with Mata or Luiz - both firm fan favourites at Stamford Bridge - will come as a shock to Chelsea supporters.

Mata was voted as the Blues' player of the season last term but the Spaniard has been concerned by suggestions new manager Jose Mourinho is willing to sell him, while Luiz starred for Brazil at the Confederations Cup last month.

Rooney is understood to be "angry and confused" following comments by United boss David Moyes suggesting the 27-year-old will be an understudy to Robin van Persie this season.

The England striker's future has been the subject of intense speculation ever since he was left out of United's Champions League last-16 tie against Real Madrid in March, with Goal revealing in May that Rooney was 'hell bent' on forcing a summer move away from the club.

Rooney has two years left on his deal at United but Ed Woodward, the vice-president of the Premier League champions, has claimed the club will not offer him a new contract, while they are prepared to let him run down his current deal.

Source:http://www.goal.com/en-gb/news/2892/transfer-zone/2013/07/17/4123365/manchester-united-reject-chelseas-10m-plus-mata-or-luiz?ICID=CP_96

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