Anyway, forget City, he's off to Liverpool apparently!

Take my word for it, Rooney is on his way to Liverpool.

I know this because I overheard Roy Hodgson saying “Looks like Waynes’ coming”. I didn’t hear any more because it started pissing down and I had to run for cover.

😆

This situation has deteriorated faster than I imagined possible.

At this stage, if I were United I would be contemplating a deal such as Rooney = Benzema + £20 million. I think that Real Madrid can produce that. Given Rooney's form and impending UEFA rules, I am not sure that United can squeeze Ronaldo money out of other teams.

I will be really surprised if United get £30M for Rooney outright, and if this doesn't get sorted in January, and there's a massive chance it won't (Winter transfers being notoriously difficult), they will be lucky to get anywhere close to £30M in the summer.

I think you've really got to understand the importance of Rooney only having 18 months remaining on his contract, and the public knowledge that Rooney desperately wants to go, and as a result, United needing/wanting to sell.

They are in a very weak position, and if they are hell bent on not selling to City, as I suspect they are, that position becomes even weaker.

James wrote:

@ Ricky.

I think if i'd signed a contract at the world's biggest club, one that made me the worlds most expensive teenager, paid me £100,000+ a week, gave me 3 League Titles, 2 League Cups, 1 Champions League, 1 FIFA Club World Cup, made me one of the worlds best strikers, supported me during personal problems...i'd probably get my head down and work harder than ever before as soon as times turned slightly hard. I say that, but he's playing for a club that is still currently unbeaten this season.

I would at least keep my mouth shut until the end of the season, and not leak stories to the press like a coward. Everything about this is just bizarre to me, and stinks of greed. Perhaps i'm the fool that still believes there's some loyalty left in football. Hardly the finest example though, seeing as this is the same man who left his boyhood club for fierce rivals. I doubt it'd stop him again. Anyway, that's my opinion, and you're just as entitled to your own 🙂

I knew there was a reason we get on so well. This really sums up how I feel about it, I think Rooney's a disgrace, and ungrateful one at that.

He's signed a new contract at United.

Either, this makes him only available for City, or this is a massive twist.

How weird.

Thought this was always a reasonable possibility up until he released his own statement, when it appeared that he was buying matches to burn his bridges. Wonder how the fans/dressing room will respond. Can still see him leaving in the next couple of years after what's gone on in the past couple of years.

Also, I'd be surprised if the club have really conclusively changed his mind on whether they're demonstrating ambition or not. I can only think the dispute was over money.

I'd say that contract has some serious clauses in it. First one being the option to leave when Fergie goes. Thats my guess anyway.

And so much for Fergie getting rid of problem players. Don't know how he's managed to keep that reputation with all the concessions he's made in the last few years.

Just read his statement, what an attention seeking, money grabbing, little whore.

Or big whore.

Indeed Paul. Utter, utter cunt.

That noise you can hear guys is all the United fans backtracking over Rooney.

The only ambition this man has is money.

Well, that was an extraordinary load of bollocks to get a pay rise.

If I worked with a guy who pulled a stunt anything like that I'd lose all respect for him.

This may be just me, but I think Rooney's topped Adebayor's beahviour in 2008 in the artless manouevreing stakes. Which is saying something!

To be fair to Rooney, nothing would have been made public if it weren't for Ferguson and then the story snowballed because he is the great english hope. We have had several players with the same little grumbles over the last few seasons and then commit to better contracts.

It's a ridiculous situation for trained professional's to find themselves in (including Rooney's PR team).

"No, I'm fully fit thank you" 😆

Holloway is a great character. Hope he doesn't come out and say something stupid next and ruin it all.

Lagos wrote:

Very Bizzare, Then again maybe Fergie delliberately made it public realizing this would be the final outcome.

'Football people' are saying that it is a fact that Rooney had agreed to go to Man city but has changed his mind given the attention that has already been drawn (mob outside of his house, fan reaction, news coverage). Similar to when Gerrard was as good as signed at Chelsea.

Who are we referring to when we say 'football people'?

The little ones, Don. Like Arshavin. And Warwick Davis from that Ricky Gervais commercial.

Re: Rooney, I assume it was about money all along then. Brilliant way to alienate your team mates and make your fans hate you for a few quid more.

I heard it from an agent and it's apparently on the radio but I don't listen to the radio so can't certify that.

Well, the agent in question isn't going to make a buck from me. 😆

Fair enough, my football people in inverted commas was essentially to say take it with a pinch of salt. I believe that Rooney had agreed everything myself for a few reasons but it doesn't matter; fact is that he is staying at ManU for now and that's all that matters.

The whole thing is bizarre, and embarrassing for all the parties involved.

Shame he's not leaving, but, my oh my, has he done some damage. Fergie too.

Lagos wrote:

True still it is a rather bizzare episode isn't it. Why on earth would Fergie have announced he was leaving anyway? Makse me think whether it was ambition, financial or Personal, there was a bluff somewhere and Fergie called it. I think Fergie like me feels Rooney may be wanted and courted but ultimately he has nowere to go!

It really is.

I'm simply of the opinion that Rooney isn't the brightest spark and allowed 'his people' to create a situation that he didn't wholeheartedly want but at least was sensible enough to rectify it rather than let it get too far out of hand like others have done in the past (Ashley cole for instance).

What interests me is that the Glazers had to step in to get this one done. What were they able to tell him, that Gil and Ferguson had previously not been authorised / able to?

Bit of an odd situation, all told, and I do get the feeling that there's still more to this story than meets the eye.

What a disgusting act of greed by rooney and his agent. If I was a united supporter, this would have made me lose all respect for him.

Makes a lot of those idiots that were camped outside his house look like the mugs they are...interesting to see how their fans take to him now.

Horrible, greedy, granny shagging scumbag, and it's made red nose look like a twat as well...I would hate to have a player like that at our club no matter how good he is.

Lagos wrote:

Why on earth would Fergie have announced he was leaving anyway?

Well, if Rooney did have some sort of pre-agreement with City, putting things out in the open showed him exactly what would happen in terms of angry mobs, betrayed fans etc. Put the pressure firmly back on him.

If Rooney wanted more money, he got it, so perhaps he and his agents are the ones that played Ferguson. The 1 billion United fans, after all, will forgive him the minute he scores his next goals.

This promise of a war chest gets me thinking: do promises like that make the player bigger than the club? This is actually very surprising from fergie's standpoint. As someone who appears highly authoritarian in public, you wouldn't think he would be OK with Rooney walking over him like that. I could never see Wenger(who comes off as a player's manager) going that far to appease a player. Sickening stuff on all fronts, and you really have to agree with what Holloway said the other day.

Haha that poor Russian bloke has been used for so many jokes.

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