Wayne Rooney has scored four goals in his last four games for Manchester United since moving to his preferred position in the centre of our attack.
Before this season, Rooney was forced out wide to accommodate for Cristiano Ronaldo, which took away from the amount of goals he scored. Whilst other players might voice their displeasure about being shifted out of the limelight, Rooney kept quiet and got on with his job, playing wherever the manager asked him to.
Former Manchester United defender, Gary Pallister, reckons players with Rooney’s attitude are a Godsend to the manager and he expects to see great things from our young forward over the coming years.
“From day one Sir Alex will have known full well that the best way to play Wayne Rooney is up front, just off another striker,” said Gary. “That’s where he is most destructive and dangerous. That’s where defenders don’t want him to be. He can express himself there and cause untold damage. But it is fully understandable when you have a young man with his work ethic and attitude that at times you will use him for the good of the team. A player like Rooney who doesn’t spit his dummy out of the pram when he is asked to play away from his favoured position but will do it superbly is a Godsend to a manager. Wayne won’t bang on the manager’s door complaining about it. But what he can do and he appears to be doing this season is sending a message to the boss that he cannot afford to move him back wide even temporarily. He looks like a player who is saying I am going to do so much goal damage that you can’t put me back out wide.”
Pallister then reflected on his playing days at Manchester United but can’t remember ever coming across a player like Rooney.
“I cannot think of anyone I played against or with who comes close to the player Wayne is,” he added. “It is quite frightening to think of what he can do and he is still only 23. He is about four or five years off his peak and if he keeps progressing the way he is then he can achieve anything. He is the type of player who needs a challenge and Ronaldo going has given him a new one. He’ll have seen Cristiano become World Player of the Year and, though I don’t think he is the type who says `look at me I am a superstar,’ I believe that title might be one he thinks he is capable of achieving. I wouldn’t bet against him doing it one day. He has got the stage, he has got the hunger and desire and he certainly has the ability in his locker to achieve it.”
Wazza the genius!
rooooooooooneey
My favourite player of all time. Wait till his patnership with Berbatov clicks and w’ell have with us something magical. I can’t wait till the day he makes the critics eat their words. If ever there is a player who can replicate Cantona’s cult status, its surely Wayne.
Rooney is a wonderful player, but he’s not the finished article yet. I think Fergie’s moving him out wide on the left was not simply a tactical move to protect the left flank and to free up the centre for Ronaldo, although it was also both of those things. I believe it was also in part Fergie wishing to enhance Rooney’s understanding of the game for the long-term. Bobby Charlton started as an ‘inside forward’, scoring spectacular goals from distance, but was moved out to the left wing, much against his will, both for United and for England. He hated being so far from the action, but he learned from it, and when Busby and Jimmy Murphy moved him back to the centre he flourished as a more deep-lying play-maker/ goal-scorer/ ’screener’ of the defence. It was at that point that Bobby became a truly rounded world class player. I think the same will happen with Rooney.
whats the odds on Rooney becoming Uniteds all time top scorer?
Sorry i forgot to add in…..
Rooney!!!! what a fucking legend!!!!!!
Wazzaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa!!!!!!!!
Rooney for golden boot this season….
Any news about Hargo ???i really miss him.
i reckon rooney cant get the golden boot this season
plus hes not a waif like torres so the physical nature of defenders wont get to him
rooney for a hatrick at the weekend!
*i meant can get the golden boot
THE complete footballer!!! Give him a run at every position on the pitch and he’ll keep the regulars out!! Makes me proud to be a Mancunian!!! What a player!! Hope he keeps his scoring boots on for most of the season!!
mateeeeeeees watch out. roooney is gonna rip apart other teams defence just wait till mid season. also he will be on the list for footballer of the year nomination list for sure and i hope he will get it. come on roooneyy show the hater who u r. it was so nice to see our legend denis law today in the UEFA draw telecast. what a legend.
but tendencies to relies on Rooney performance is a bit worrying…
but opponent will make a big mistake if the focus mainly on rooney…
Berbatov is the creative gear…and Nani just look at how him perform at Wigan game…he seem dissapeared in almost half the minute of the game…but in a matter second he can provide assist,good crosses…and hey a wonderful freekick…
WAYNE ROONEY ~ godsend to Man Utd~!!