Sir Alex Ferguson has again confirmed that Wayne Rooney will be playing a central role next season, after being forced out on to the left last season to accommodate the 4-3-3 formation.
Whilst we’ll be needing Rooney to score more goals in the absence of Cristiano Ronaldo, the manager doesn’t think that responsibility will bother Wayne.
“I don’t think the responsibility of getting more goals will affect Wayne at all,” said Ferguson. “He’s got the mental strength for all that kind of thing. He’s proved that time and time again. He will be used as a central striker this season. He goes on these bursts of goals. Last season I think he hit seven in a row at one point – but if he can do that more consistently over the season, he will get to 25 and above. But Wayne is a totally different type of player to Ronaldo. I don’t think you can compare them, they are such different types.”
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Yeah like wayne is cool and ronaldo is totally not cool.
Wazza for most goals in the premiership this season!! I would love to see that happening!!
Rooney will be mark tightly this season and the other striker will bang the goals….
if rooney takes the penos and free kicks he wil easily cross 30 goal mark.he has to be less wasteful than last 2 years and has to scre consistently rather than in patches.he wnt have added pressure bcoz the likes of berba nani owen ando and valencia have to prove themselves.but being the darling of england rooney wil be obviously watched more closely.
Wazza will run riot this season, its his time.
This is what we’ve been waiting for. Let’s see Wazza really come out and fuck some clubs up this season.
El Blanco needs to learn to score the easy/scruffy goals……thats his only weakness.
I don’t think we will miss Ronaldo’s goals. This team has goals in it. What I am worried about is that with Ronaldo gone, defences suddenly don’t have someone they can double up on and can focus more on Rooney and Berba. That worries me. The curse of the metatarsal is there too. I really wish it wasn’t world cup time.
Yep, he sometimes goes for the crowdpleaser option rather than just hammering it in, so if he can score more “ugly” goals, he would take a step forward. He has expressed similar views himself so I think this year will be Rooneys year!
I think Rooney only needs to work on his composure infront of goal because he misses a lot of easy chances. Thats his main weakness. Apart from that Nani really needs to step up. A run of games will help him. Valencia looks good. Fletcher should be a certain starter. I have every confidence we will win the league. Chelsea and Lpool are not as strong as people think.
roooney will step up for the goals left by ronaldo. mark my word, rooney is the top scorer this season no doubt about that. SAF makes them to score so he is playing rooney in central mean he will b our next top player after ronaldo(rooney always been top player for us but for the media world ronaldo was a top player) this time that will change. rooney is our legend lets make him to win the FIFA player of the year 2009/2010. u can do that SAF make us proud again. rooney got all the qualities to become a top star. wazzzzzzza for the FIFA player of the year award 2009/2010 be positive.
Rooney will score two today. Mark my words.
Can’t wait for the football season to start…Hope we will play beautiful today against Chelsea. Have a good feeling about Rooney, Berba, Nani and Valencia and Anderson too..This season we will win in style!!!
asite from nigeria wanna say MANCHESTER UNITED is so great. i truly believe in them this season. rooney is cool. he is our compass last season.