I will never understand the love for Wayne Rooney. It makes no sense. He's an average to a slightly above average player who had the benefit of playing for the best manager, along with Ronaldo, Paul Scholes, Ryan Giggs, Ruud van Nistelrooy, et. al. over his career. He's the epitome of the overhyped English player.
Rooney's averaged
significantly less than a goal every two games over his career for Man United, while playing with some of the best, most creative players the world has ever seen. Literally any striker of any merit, not even necessarily a world class striker (which he is not, and has never been) could have done as well or better over the time he's been there.
He's been on 300k/week for like 7-8 years. Why?! For what?!
He's only scored 20+ league goals twice in his career. For a player of his alleged stature, that's criminal! (and he never really got close to 20 in any of the seasons that he didn't score 20 either)
For some context, Dimitar Berbatov scored 20 once for Man U in his short 4-year stint there.
Tevez didn't ever do it at ManU, but he went to City for 4 years and did it twice.
Hell, once Emmanuel friggin' Adebayor scored 24 goals in a season for Arsenal.
Most people would say those players aren't better than Rooney. (IMO Tevez clearly is/was better, but Man U fans like to pretend he sucks for some reason.)
In the appropriated words of the great Ace Ventura, "Wayne Rooney should die of gonorrhea and rot in hell."
That said, I hope he scores a hattie against Liverpool and Man United every time he plays them. I'm now his biggest fan!
