Ferguson shows Wayne Rooney everyone is expendable
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I know he is protecting Rooney from getting the abuse and boos from the everton fans, but without him, united again lost 2 points. each time he is not playing, united dropped 2 points. I dunno whether it is a coincidence or what, but united defence is certainly leaking goals like no tommorrow when travelling away.
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My mum didnt play for Man U. Or did she?
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Originally posted by Rooney9:
I know he is protecting Rooney from getting the abuse and boos from the everton fans, but without him, united again lost 2 points. each time he is not playing, united dropped 2 points. I dunno whether it is a coincidence or what, but united defence is certainly leaking goals like no tommorrow when travelling away.
Tonite Man U problem is not in attack,right? It got to more to do with defence...2mins concede 2 goals, nothing to do with Rooney.
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Originally posted by CannyOng:
Tonite Man U problem is not in attack,right? It got to more to do with defence...2mins concede 2 goals, nothing to do with Rooney.
berbatov and Nani missed a few scoring chances when they were presented with chances. if rooney is around, everton should be dead and buried at 4-1, maybe 5-1 even, but thats hypothetical questions isnt it. you should play your best player and rooney united best player, period.
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Rooney wanted to fuck whores lah. So he told fergie to rest him.
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Originally posted by Rooney9:
berbatov and Nani missed a few scoring chances when they were presented with chances. if rooney is around, everton should be dead and buried at 4-1, maybe 5-1 even, but thats hypothetical questions isnt it. you should play your best player and rooney united best player, period.
Why not you say replace Evra with another defender in the first place and Man U will not even concede initially..And maybe you put Rooney on in starting line up and Everton fan shout 'Wife cheater', I think Rooney shooting will be even lousy than S-league striker...
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Originally posted by CannyOng:
Why not you say replace Evra with another defender in the first place and Man U will not even concede initially..And maybe you put Rooney on in starting line up and Everton fan shout 'Wife cheater', I think Rooney shooting will be even lousy than S-league striker...
Rooney's mental is not as weak as you think bah. Think he can handle it as well as C.Ron after the 2006 World Cup incident.
I think what's coming for Rooney in the park is obvious and fergie is just preventing it from happening. This kind of thing just happens when the players' private life is in the game as well. Fergie has played his strongest side he could IMO except he should play rafael instead really.
I guess when asked by the press, fergie will say he wanted to rest him because of the international fixtures and to get the best of him during the CL match against Ranger. ;)
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It is true that Rooney has been playing non stop for the last month, weekend, mid-week... It was right to leave him out and get some rest at the same time.
In my view, Neville did ok for the most part but towards the last 10 mins, Fergie should bring on fresher legs to cover more ground. He did not and they were made to pay for it. Of course it's not always like that but last night was just unfortunate...
I felt that Giggs, Neville should have come off in place of Rafael and Gibson by the time it was 80mins cos they can't run anymore... At the point when Park was about to come on, I saw Gibson was also getting ready to join in but Fergie changed his mind and told him to stay back... I guess he decided to stick with the 3 old men...
Anyway, with Rooney around... It doesn't guarantee anything. For all we know, the home fans would have been more vocal and the Everton players might have done even better...
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Still no difference de even if he players yesterday. It is up to teamwork since the match is 11 per team, not 1.
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Originally posted by TIB657M:
Still no difference de even if he players yesterday. It is up to teamwork since the match is 11 per team, not 1.
But 1 single player could change the outcome of the match. Thanks ar Neville.
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Last night wasn't about rooney, man utd is not a one man team. Rooney or not, its still manchester united.
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Rooney still played for WC. But why need to go top 16 in a hard way? he was still recovering from injuries, players did not really play their best.
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of cos he's right, else how come hes man u's manager so long?
he made the right choice by leaving him out to settle his stuffs and hopefully get everything done and be back and stronger to score against liverpool next week.
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Manchester United manager Sir Alex Ferguson says he left Wayne Rooney out of the team which drew 3-3 at Everton on Saturday to protect him from the "terrible abuse" he is subjected to at Goodison Park.
Rooney joined United six years ago and Everton fans have never forgiven him for leaving the club so early in his career. He was sure to get even more abuse following the revelations about the player's private life in the last seven days.
The striker will return against Rangers in the Champions League on Tuesday.
"We made the decision simply because he gets terrible abuse here," explained the United manager. "We were not going to subject him to that abuse. We've got a fantastic squad and we'll use it. He'll play on Tuesday, yes."
Some sections of the press claimed on Sunday that Rooney was left out as punishment for his off-field behaviour and that the player was desperate to play at his old stomping ground.
David Beckham has backed Sir Alex's decision to drop Rooney.
"Sir Alex Ferguson knows more than me and definitely knows more than anyone about his players,'' Beckham told Sky Sports News. "He has obviously made a decision what is best for for him and for his team.
"He's definitely being looked after by the right club and the right manager and with the right people around him. He's a great footballer at the end of the day.''
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Manchester United's Wayne Rooney was omitted from the team to play Everton. Photograph: Carl Recine/Action Images
Everton's fans prepared meticulously for the homecoming, buying a blow-up doll to pass across the stands and penning a new chant – "No woman, no Kai", to the old Bob Marley number – but it was their team who mastered the art of torture, scoring twice in added time to take a point off a Manchester United side that had spared Wayne Rooney the sadistic humour of the tribe he left behind.
Rooney's omission from the United squad that left the Lowry Hotel in Manchester to motor to the ground where he made his name was punishment laced with empathy. "We are not going to subject him to the abuse he gets here," said Sir Alex Ferguson before United surrendered a 3-1 lead to goals by Tim Cahill and Mikel Arteta. This calculated strategy both erected a protective cordon around a troubled employee and reminded him of what he will surrender if he becomes a victim of his appetites.
In the wake of a soul-melting frenzy around his personal life, United were eager to distinguish between private morality and professional duty. There was a distinction in the club's thinking between issues pertaining to his marriage and the hedonistic streak the recent kiss-and-tell allegations pointed to. Where Rooney was failing to behave like a committed Manchester United footballer, the club felt within their rights to express fierce displeasure. Drinking, smoking and living on Las Vegas non-time would be the offences likely to compromise his work ethic.
So Ferguson played a win-win hand. Rooney had stayed with the team as usual but the manager sent him home on the morning of this most daunting return to Goodison. Hobson's choice is how Rooney probably saw it: a painful domestic inquest or a run across the minefield of Evertonian loathing. On that front United's supporters subverted the plot, taunting the home crowd with chants of "Rooney shagged your gran".
Why mention this? Because it is the context and climate in which the career of England's best player came to a 24-hour halt, the environment in which United tried to win a tough away game without him. Also it reveals how the private lives of footballers have mutated into an especially rancid type of mass entertainment; a burlesque in which the mighty are perennially tempted and then exposed and humbled when they succumb.
Rooney's demotion was a compassionate act and a memo that said great football clubs roll on without even their brightest stars. It said careers are ruined all the time and that Rooney could spoil his too. Ferguson's ace is that the man he left behind is addicted to the game, to playing, to throwing himself into combat. To have this taken from him, even for a single afternoon, might have the effect of smelling salts. Kindness was delivered with an accompanying kick.
Though United "threw away" a victory, in Ferguson's words, they also played with ease and enterprise, as if to prove they can shine without their enfant terrible and chief headline-maker. Dimitar Berbatov reached the levels of one the world's top strikers. His touch and vision were exquisite. His goal – United's third – was a masterpiece. Receiving a chip from Paul Scholes that floated over the shoulder of Sylvain Distin, Berbatov steered the ball infield to slice off the Everton defender's angle and used the outside of his right boot to drive a shot past Tim Howard, whose acrobatic leaps and blocks had kept David Moyes's team in the game.
Rooney-centric United fans will say missed opportunities proved the case for keeping him in the side regardless of the home crowd's hostility. True, Scholes skewed a chance over the bar and Nani provoked Ferguson's wrath by screwing a shot wide when team-mates were lining up to finish, but then Rooney has been no goal-machine of late.
United have been coaxing him back to peak condition after his disastrous World Cup in South Africa. Encouragingly, for Ferguson, Berbatov sensed the talent gap in United's forward line and resolved to fill it, parading the kind of conviction that was lacking in his often languid efforts last term.
Ferguson says Rooney will be back for Tuesday's Champions League tie against Rangers and the visit of Liverpool next Sunday. Away fans aside, this buys him another week inside the United compound. Sometimes the dazzling power of the modern footballer/one-man corporation conceals the might still exercised by the biggest clubs. At United, David Beckham and Roy Keane fought the law and lost.
Rooney is nowhere near that point, but can expect to hear an emphatic restatement of team principles; not in the moral sphere, but where indulgence and indiscipline threaten to inflate into self-destruction. At 24 he has received the first real intimation that all careers end, some gloriously, some with cheap blues lines filling the obituaries.
Received at first as a victory for the mob, the dropping of Rooney on this September Saturday came to be a showcase for Berbatov and a demonstration of Everton's spirit and tenacity. In other words, two clubs managed fine without him.
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i think rooney only plays well when he is screwing prostitutes.
now looks like no more chance. actually im surprised he never got caught for so long with the recent scandal.
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rooney not palying coz his cock is not balance