Captain wrote:
You have to rate Rooney up there as the player of the season to be fair. He's been quietly phenomenal for them this year.
What annoys me about him is that you feel he should be kicking on into that absolute top tier with guys like Ronaldo, Messi etc. but he still seems to be in that bracket below. Could just be perception.
Na, he had a real quiet patch from around the end of August until around the turn of the year - Ronaldo, Messi just don't have those long dips.
Rooney hasn't got it in him to keep up the sort of form he showed at the start of the season over a long period, and that's what he'd need to even have a chance of being considered in Ronaldo's class, let alone Messi's.
