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tess1:
I don`t know how Rooney will be a number 10 when SAF majorly played 442 flat formation but not 4411 or 442 diamond in the league.

SAF only changed his system after he bought RVP to be able to accomodate both Rooney and RVP in the team.

How somebody will be saying Rooney played as a number 10 throughout his Man Utd career except for one season still baffles me.

coogar:
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.

sinizia:
LOL!! I've been patiently waiting for Elampawa to bring up his usual lies and maybe label Scholes a winger or even a striker.

Coogar how do you cope arguing with this Elam guy, cos the few days i've been here he argues like someone high on some surreal weed? How do you cope? kudos for condoning his atrocious views.

coogar:
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.

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.

homesteady:
I was arguing with someone on barcelona thread on this CM and No10 issue -
Who is Chelsea No 10? Oscar or Fabregas?

sinizia:
Bunch of excuses. Nothing worth replying about. When you answer my question, let me know.

sinizia:
So how come the likes of Scholes, Lampard, Ronaldinho, Gerrard, Modric, Xavi, Fabregas, who are 10 are called midfielders but Rooney who is a 10 according to you is called a striker? So Rooney defies the laws and rules of football?

sinizia:
This sort of baloney you keep spewing can only occur when someone starts adding methamphetamine and crack cocàin to his burgeoning CV of hard drugs. I've told you stick to Kenyan weed, but you wouldn't listen.

Rooney is a 10 yet every football sites keeps calling him a striker. He's a 10 yet when top 'whatever' EPL strikers of all time are mentioned, he keeps coming up in their lists. He's a 10 yet since Scholes left, England has this so-called "best 10 of his generation" and keeps him playing as a striker and even as a winger in the last WC in Brazil, while the likes of Gerrard and Lampard has been under-performing as a 10 for England all these years. The next nonsense to come out from your orifice or finger will be that Scholes was a winger while Rooney was playing for 11 years in Man Utd. SMDH!! Elampawa you are right, you win. I'm not going to debate this BS with you. It's getting irritating.

sinizia:
Rooney best 10 of his generation? Are you not ashamed spewing this baloney?

sinizia:
Rooney best 10 0f his generation? What brand of dog shi*t are you smoking? In your other dumb post you named Rooney as a striker along with Zlatan, etc., yet here you are calling him a 10? are you high on wet feacal matter?

Darkrebel666:
That's the point.
If a clinical and competent striker was used to replace Suarez the team wouldn't have declined and exacerbated.

saying they shined because of Suarez is an ignorant blooper.
Who passed the balls to Suarez to score and who provided him with assists?
was it Luis Suarez' twin brother?

sinizia:
Rooney is crap and everyone knows this!! Out and out doesn't matter. How come you rate this dude as the best yet Cantona that you rate lower than Rooney is rated higher than Rooney among Man Utd fans and EPL judges? What does that tell you? In 5 season, Cantona reached a legendary status. Can Rooney match that in his first 5 seasons when he's scoring 12 goals?

sinizia:
You are comparing a winger like Giggs with Rooney a striker? you said SAF said Ronaldo can strike as Rooney, has he ever said the same for Giggs? Rooney will never match the level of Giggs' legendary status no matter the amount of seasons he plays in Man Utd. Cantona achieved a legendary status in 5 seasons. Rooney is a learner!!

sinizia:
Aguero just won the highest goal scorer.

Suarez did it last season too..

So are they in the same category of Messi and Ronaldo?

They did this with very lesser seasons than Rooney. Is Rooney below their levels too?

sinizia:
I can't convince you and you can't convince me. So let's agree to disagree. For me, any striker that scores 12 goals in a season playing the same number of games as Rooney for Man Utd is wack!!

sinizia:
How come Ronado won all those and Rooney can't in 12 seasons?

Nihilist:
170 goals in 340 league appearances is a goal every 2 games.

A GOAL EVERY OTHER GAME...since 2004

Some of you fans are just ungrateful idiots.

By all means, yes Rooney has declined. But to say he's overhyped? Overhyped?

sinizia:
Yeah, Rooney is a defender. is Ronaldo a striker?

sinizia:
Ronaldo wasn't a striker like your over-paid Rooney.
Ronaldo wasn't over-hyped like Rooney before he came to Man Utd.
Ronaldo cost less than Rooney.
Ronaldo has won the golden boot both in EPL and La Liga.
Ronaldo has played less than Rooney in Man Utd.
Kane was relatively unknown before he blew via his goals. Rooney as a superstar was still scoring 12 goals in a season for Man Utd.


To end this, tell me any top-tier striker, who didn't have injury like Falcao, who played the amount of games Rooney did and scored just one away goal. Shame on Rooney. He's a fraud!! Lampard was third world best player, Rooney won't even be 10th world best.


As a striker, he's not among any credible site's top 5 best EPL striker of all time.

As a midfielder, he's not among any credible site's top 10 EPL midfielder of all time. Give it up, Rooney sucks!!

sinizia:
You are not ashamed that as at 2014, after 10years in Man Utd, Rooney as a STRIKER was behind Lampard as midfielder in number of goals involve and could only muster just 12 goals in one full season. Shame on Rooney!!

Compare Ibrahimovic's goals with Lampard upon Lampard started the game before him and see how he dwarfs Lampard. That's how you know a striker!!

sinizia:
You are not bright at all. Rooney beats Lampard down in assists? And yet Lampard is above him in the all-time assists table? Can't you read? And yes, Rooney scored more RVP in the past two seasons because same way Lampard played more than him, is the same he played more than RVP. A fit RVP will outshine Rooney over and over again. Rooney has been in Man Utd (a top club) for 11 seasons, Lampard spent more time in West Ham (a low club) than Rooney in Everton yet he has more assists than your glorious Rooney. Rooney is over-hyped. In that last 5 seasons before Lampard started playing bench for Chelshit and Manshitty, he's been copping 20+ goals as midfielder, yet Rooney who's been striking has a record of a midfielder. What a shame!! It took Rooney 5 seasons to score 20+ goals, and Harry kane did it in his first season although he started regularly by November. Rooney is a fraud, simpe!!

elampiro:
I said it that Rooney beats Lampard hands down in Assists they were laughing at themselves. Sinizia and Coogar, see below what I believe to be 'OPTA standard' Assists figures. Lampard played 48,729 minutes. Rooney played 31,776 minutes. Lampard played 16,953 minutes more than Rooney. That is 188 full ninety minutes of football matches.



Premier League All time most assists
Assists Assist name

96
Frank Lampard
94
Wayne Rooney

chrisley024:
Stop telling me how he performed in the days of Abraham, we know he was good. Rate his performances in the last 2-3 seasons.

coogar:
how's rooney an AM when he scored 4 goals as a CF this season? how's rooney an AM when his best scoring record was as a striker in 09/10 & 10/12?

did cantona ever play as a striker for united?

StarBoard:
oga,
respect yourself and keep my name out of your smelling gluttonous mouth.
you are being torn to rags and the best you can do is retort like a pansy.
if you cannot put together a decent point to save yourself from being pursued like a petty pickpocket, kindly drop all references to me and answer your critics like the man you are pretending to be.

You need to get laid. Some of us are trying to get a life yet marabouts like you wont let us be.
face up to the fact that your Rooney is a money grabbing scam and leave me alone.

I trust this b.i.tch to quote me.