Wayne Rooney transfer "agreed in principle"

[thebluenosebolt]

Oh....and bye wayne

 

[LEONARD]

Amazing TV coverage, Everton hardly mentioned, and it's as if he's going Stateside straight from Manure.

 

[coltefc]

Totally agree. Rooney.He did well start season and scored some important goals.

As long as jags and baines and that standard of player are in our first 11 we are a mid table team at best.

I would go for Cresswell from west ham to replace baines and Evans to replace Jags and mawson from swansea is half decent,as for Rooney i think its time for him to say goodbye,hes built some bridges by coming back but his legs have clearly gone and slows it up to much for me,We need to stop being a retirement home and please dont sign Yaya Toure

 

[Toast]

I would go for Cresswell from west ham to replace baines and Evans to replace Jags and mawson from swansea is half decent,as for Rooney i think its time for him to say goodbye,hes built some bridges by coming back but his legs have clearly gone and slows it up to much for me,We need to stop being a retirement home and please dont sign Yaya Toure

At least with @The Esk we had hope of signing footballers.

Now lids are happy with Cresswell and Johnny Evans..

 

[Lelouch]

Be arsed with this dragging on all Summer, I don't care if he stays or goes but this is all that the media will care about, Just get it done or not.

 

[Efctrueblue]

This is so telling of the way the club is right now. Last summer Rooney comes back 'home' to 'finish his career with his beloved Everton'.
Fast forward 12 months and he's been ridiculed, scapegoated and used by a clown of a manager to make a point!!

If a player like Rooney doesnt want to stay, then how do we think that we can attract the so called 'elite players' that we so desperately need to advance!

 

[Tak]

Seems he's been planning this for a while.

7 weeks ago would place the start at sometime between the Stoke and Man City games.

Was he saying much in particular then or since?

 

[chippy1722]

£38 million can get you a Salah if you have the foresight to scout right. We as you say have spent largely in the over inflated PL market.

Willian Jose from Real Sociedad is the one for me - 15 goals last season, 19 in this one, only about 26 and more suited to the prem physically than Sandro.

Oh and yeah flog Sandro for another £6-7 million on top of the other 3.

It’s who else is in the team, we could have spend £38m on Salah and he probably would have looked gash in our team and setup.

It’s no fluke that Liverpool got Coutinho, Salah, Mane, Firminho, Suarez Etc and they all managed to shine.

 

[bitter-no-better]

People still have this impression that it is a retirement league that Beckham was able to play in until about 38.

What few people outside of the US realize is how Beckham really had to work to make sure he could hack it and stand out because the pace of the league is similar to the Prem. What they lack in skill in some MLS teams they definitely make up for in athleticism and the game is played at a high pace and usually in quite high temperatures.

I don't understand why they feel they have to play at that pace, it even happens in the amateur levels here in Canada. I don't get it when you have to deal with that heat and humidity in most places. There's a reason the South Americans play a slower game and only turn the pace on to quickly beat a man rather than playing the whole match like that.

Lampard and Gerrard were quickly found out and roundly jibbed off when they were seen not to be up to the pace of it, Pirlo was the same as well.

Agreed. The few games I have seen in the MLS have been end to end at a good pace. And won me a few quid on both teams to score. Rooney will not find it easy.

 

[dannyboy]

This is so telling of the way the club is right now. Last summer Rooney comes back 'home' to 'finish his career with his beloved Everton'.
Fast forward 12 months and he's been ridiculed, scapegoated and used by a clown of a manager to make a point!!

If a player like Rooney doesnt want to stay, then how do we think that we can attract the so called 'elite players' that we so desperately need to advance!

How can we attract elite players when we've got Rooney clowning around in the midfield? For the team to improve he needs to move on.

 

[Boss_Rarkley]

It’s who else is in the team, we could have spend £38m on Salah and he probably would have looked gash in our team and setup.

It’s no fluke that Liverpool got Coutinho, Salah, Mane, Firminho, Suarez Etc and they all managed to shine.

I agree we definitely need a CM, LM, CB and LB with Jags, Baines, Bolasie and Besic/Mccarthy all moving on... but I was just highlighting how by selling 4 of our 5 cenrte forwards who are all gash we could reinvest in a top quality CF to play up top alone rotating with Tosun and have 2 good centre forwards on the books. You then have the option as Walcott up top if we have an injury crisis to the other two.

 

[The Penalty Box Dancer]

This is so telling of the way the club is right now. Last summer Rooney comes back 'home' to 'finish his career with his beloved Everton'.
Fast forward 12 months and he's been ridiculed, scapegoated and used by a clown of a manager to make a point!!

If a player like Rooney doesnt want to stay, then how do we think that we can attract the so called 'elite players' that we so desperately need to advance!

Yep. There is something wrong at the club that runs deeper than we know.

Ross Barkley left under a dark cloud whether it was to do with his personal life, Koeman (who had already gone) or he could see a lack of direction at the club, it was deemed impossible for the lad who adored this club and just wanted to play for Everton. There is more to it than we think.

Rooney came back last year reinvigorated. He is not the type of player to walk away from a challenge. He came here to prove himself and there is no way a winner like him would give up after one season. There is a more concerning underlying reason which runs deep at the club.

Something not good at Everton right now. Its not the place players we have want to be at.

 

[Eggs]

This is so telling of the way the club is right now. Last summer Rooney comes back 'home' to 'finish his career with his beloved Everton'.
Fast forward 12 months and he's been ridiculed, scapegoated and used by a clown of a manager to make a point!!

If a player like Rooney doesnt want to stay, then how do we think that we can attract the so called 'elite players' that we so desperately need to advance!

..sometimes these things are over-hyped. Perhaps the lure of a great life experience for him and his family, away from the spotlight and living in a goldfish bowl whilst earning £300k per week is a bit too much to ignore. Add to that, he’ll be able to play in his comfort zone away from the physicality of Premiership where he will increasingly struggle.

The timing is good, the move seems sensible for all concerned.

 

[Dymak]

This is so telling of the way the club is right now. Last summer Rooney comes back 'home' to 'finish his career with his beloved Everton'.
Fast forward 12 months and he's been ridiculed, scapegoated and used by a clown of a manager to make a point!!

If a player like Rooney doesnt want to stay, then how do we think that we can attract the so called 'elite players' that we so desperately need to advance!

We are getting rid of Rooney, not the other way around. Rooney is moving because he knows that he isn't good enough to play for Everton any more, and that he stands little chance of making our first team next season. He's on his last legs, moving to his last contract. Rooney moving to America won't have any impact on us attracting top players.

 

[Groucho]

Only if you’re an absolute mongoloid like Steve Walsh. £30m will more often than not get you a very good striker from another league.

Don’t use that word here