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Transfer Rumour Wayne Rooney

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johnnydawg68 said:
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BrendanGOT said:
Everton legend claims Wayne Rooney is Bill Kenwright's signing, not Ronald Koeman's
Former Wales ace Kevin Ratcliffe, who as skipper led the Toffees to their unprecedented success in the 1980s, admits to being perplexed over 31-year-old Rooney’s second coming.

Everton legend Kevin Ratcliffe believes that Wayne Rooney’s Goodison Park return is more of a Bill Kenwright production than one of manager Ronald Koeman’s making.

Former Wales ace Ratcliffe, who as skipper led the Toffees to their unprecedented success in the 1980s, admits to being perplexed over 31-year-old Rooney’s second coming.

He maintains it’s a similar headline-grabbing move that brought Paul Gascoigne to the blue half of Merseyside at the age of 33.

Ratcliffe is excited by Everton’s summer spending which is nearing the £100million mark with players like Michael Keane, Jordan Pickford and Davy Klaassen.

But he says: “I’m a little unsure where Wayne Rooney fits into all this. I wonder where he will break into the team? He is still a very good player but where does he get in?

“I know that Everton brought Gazza in during his twilight years and he didn’t do badly, but I think they brought him in at the time as a crowd pleaser. They knew they weren’t going anywhere but they needed to excite people and get people in through the turnstiles.

“That’s not the case now. Also you wonder whether this is being driven more by the club than the manager.”

Ratcliffe insists the increased focus on Everton means there will be no hiding place for the ambitious Koeman.

“There was talk of Barcelona being interested in him. For Koeman to eventually go there he will have to win things at Everton,” he added.

“The big thing with Koeman, he gives me the impression – and some Evertonians won’t want to hear this – that he doesn’t regard Everton as the biggest club he will ever manage.

“Some of the managers we have had have thought Everton was as big as it gets. With Koeman he’s delighted to be at Goodison but he doesn’t want it to be his biggest job.

“He’s hugely ambitious. To be successful you’ve got to have better players. That’s why his standards are high.”
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You can't really equate that Gazza to this Rooney. Although the Evertons are very different I guess.

As for Koeman's ambition, as long as he doesn't spend every international break showing his bum to Barcelona I don't mind him having ambition.
 

BrendanGOT said:
Everton legend claims Wayne Rooney is Bill Kenwright's signing, not Ronald Koeman's
Former Wales ace Kevin Ratcliffe, who as skipper led the Toffees to their unprecedented success in the 1980s, admits to being perplexed over 31-year-old Rooney’s second coming.

Everton legend Kevin Ratcliffe believes that Wayne Rooney’s Goodison Park return is more of a Bill Kenwright production than one of manager Ronald Koeman’s making.

Former Wales ace Ratcliffe, who as skipper led the Toffees to their unprecedented success in the 1980s, admits to being perplexed over 31-year-old Rooney’s second coming.

He maintains it’s a similar headline-grabbing move that brought Paul Gascoigne to the blue half of Merseyside at the age of 33.

Ratcliffe is excited by Everton’s summer spending which is nearing the £100million mark with players like Michael Keane, Jordan Pickford and Davy Klaassen.

But he says: “I’m a little unsure where Wayne Rooney fits into all this. I wonder where he will break into the team? He is still a very good player but where does he get in?

“I know that Everton brought Gazza in during his twilight years and he didn’t do badly, but I think they brought him in at the time as a crowd pleaser. They knew they weren’t going anywhere but they needed to excite people and get people in through the turnstiles.

“That’s not the case now. Also you wonder whether this is being driven more by the club than the manager.”

Ratcliffe insists the increased focus on Everton means there will be no hiding place for the ambitious Koeman.

“There was talk of Barcelona being interested in him. For Koeman to eventually go there he will have to win things at Everton,” he added.

“The big thing with Koeman, he gives me the impression – and some Evertonians won’t want to hear this – that he doesn’t regard Everton as the biggest club he will ever manage.

“Some of the managers we have had have thought Everton was as big as it gets. With Koeman he’s delighted to be at Goodison but he doesn’t want it to be his biggest job.

“He’s hugely ambitious. To be successful you’ve got to have better players. That’s why his standards are high.”
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What an awful article, the headline in no way reflects the content or what King Kev said.

Poor stuff.
 
It's not the first Rats has gobbed off. He should learn to shut his trap. Koeman has very publicly claimed he'd love Rooney here.
 

@Neiler @Wizard I didn't write the article lads, just sharing, interesting to hear Ratcliffe isn't too keen on the idea of a Rooney return and believes it's not a Koeman choice. I do believe myself that Bill is definitely pushing for it as a form of redemption for selling in the first place for buttons, which in my opinion is pointless but I'm sure Rooney will be decent, maybe not worth 150k per week but it ain't my money!
 

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