Bye Roons :(

[Gray]

Well looks like Rooney has handed in his transfer... Didnt expect him to go so soon into the season, but oh well .

Being an Evertonian, seeing him go will be sad, but i can understand it all, at a much larger club i would think he would become a much better player, and if he goes Man Utd i can see him becoming an excellent player when hes older.

But Newcastle are also in for it too and he seems to prefer them, and with Shearer going end of season i suppose theyre gonna need to fill that void.

But the 25m+ we will get, we should be able to hopefully get some more strength in the team, but with the transfer window closing soon, we're gonna have to be quick off the mark.

Maybe in a few years he'll return to us, like Jeffers and Unsworth have done, we can all hope, just hope the other fans dont give him a hard time as he's done a lot for this club

 

[Gurnox]

Well looks like Rooney has handed in his transfer... Didnt expect him to go so soon into the season, but oh well .

Look on the bright side. When he's moved to Newcastle and fallen in with the Dyers, the Bellamies and the Brambles. You can look at the booze-addled emotional wreck of wasted talent he's become and think:

"Bloody hell, we got £25,000,000 for him. Touch!"

 

[Skyler]

I doubt he'll go to Newcastle as much as I rather he would. He'll go to United and sit alongside Bellion, Smith, Noodlefuck, Solskjaer and Saha.

I'm not sure why United want to buy him considering they have so many Strikers already. I know he's a great player and could turn into something amazing with the right nurturing and I'm sure United are capable of doing that... but with what they have already and considering in the last two years they've spent like 20mil on saha/smith why the hell do they need to spend more than that on Rooney too.

I think wherever he goes it wont be that good for him tbh.

 

[Wij]

Nah - he'll be a Gazza and waste his career. SELL NOW

 

[Munkey]

not enough strikers considering noodleboy is getting his arse stitched up

 

[Jonaldo]

Man U it is then.

Hopefully we'll see him and Defoe up front for England soon

 

[Wij]

Man U it is then.

Hopefully we'll see him and Defoe up front for England soon

Why - u Scottish ?

 

[k9awya]

haha

they could have probably got torres for that money
certainly zlatan at least..

rooney ffs?
ferg is losing his touch (if he ever had it)

 

[Gray]

Everton will receive half of the £20m fee immediately, with the other half due on 1 August 2005.

A further £3m will follow if Rooney is still a United player by 30 June 2007.

What the fuckis the point in that for Everton? We needed that money asap for new players, 10m wont really get us that far :/

But i heard that we may not get any money to spend anyways.. pfft

 

[Skyler]

That seems a shite deal to me.

 

[itcheh]

I found this on an Everton fan site:

"Kenwright never wanted Wayne to stay. Why? Because the Club's finances are terrible. So bad, Trevor Birch walked out in under six weeks. They are not 'long term and controllable' debts. We are talking about massive short-term loans that come due very soon. Basically, the wolves are at the door and we're at the verge of administration — and the resulting points penalty would result in CERTAIN relegation.

Kenwright knew he'd face a Boardroom challenge this summer. And he knew that, without money on the table {like Gregg has) he'd lose. Kenwright LIED about the Russian money. There is NO sugar daddy. There is no sad Russian bastard prepared to stump up even twenty roubles to put in. We're on our own and we're fucked.

The only source of money Kenwright has is the boy Rooney. Initially, my source says, Kenwright wanted to flog Wayne as soon as England went out of Euro 2004. However, Wayne's injury and the slower than anticipated season ticket sales put an end to that. So Bill switched to Plan B — hold on to Wayne until the very last minute, THEN sell him. The advantages are thus:

1. A couple of thousand poor bastards have bought season tickets they otherwise wouldn't have bought {as well as new Rooney shirts etc}
2. Chang Beer would NOT have signed on the dotted line without Wayne in the squad - and that money kept the club going for six weeks.
3. The transfer deadline's imminent arrival means that Bill can't be blamed for spending none of the Rooney cash - "...because it's too late"

My source reckons we can expect two, maybe three signings on Deadline Day. Their total value won't exceed four or five mill at most. My source basically reckons Kenwright can't be believed on a single public statement. {His exact expression was "If Bill told me the sky was blue, I'd have to go and check to be sure"}

He also reckons that the reason Bill was getting clobbered by Gregg so badly in the press was because he had other things to worry about - namely laying the groundwork for the sale of Rooney without massive fan revolt. I would say he has succeeded. Six months ago the sale of Wayne would have resulted in open rebellion amongst the support. Yet now, the overwhelming opinion is that the Club is entirely innocent, and Wayne merely a money grabbing scally. "

I'm no conspiracy theorist ... but I doubt we'll ever know the real story.

 

[Yardoa]

haha

they could have probably got torres for that money
certainly zlatan at least..

rooney ffs?
ferg is losing his touch (if he ever had it)

ferg losing his touch?
your remember the year 199?
enough said.

 

[mank!]

haha

they could have probably got torres for that money
certainly zlatan at least..

rooney ffs?
ferg is losing his touch (if he ever had it)

I think people are looking at Rooney now. The lad's 18, he's nowhere near his prime and potential yet and he outscored both Ibrahimovic and Torres at Euro 2004. The £28m or whatever it is has been spent mostly on the potential of Rooney, not his current ability.

 

[Bodhi]

haha

they could have probably got torres for that money
certainly zlatan at least..

rooney ffs?
ferg is losing his touch (if he ever had it)

Precisely. Juve just bought Zlatan and Fabio Cannavaro for less than Man U are paying for Rooney. For this they also weakened two key rivals in their forthcoming season (Inter are looking strong for Serie A, Ajax are in Juve's CL group). Rooney just doesn't look like a good buy at all.

 

[mank!]

Was it Cannavaro that Real Madrid were interested in but pulled out because he has an injury which prevents him from playing more than three games in a row?

 

[Bodhi]

As far as I know the Real Madrid move was all speculation - Cannavaro never sounded too keen on a move outside of Italy. for some reason Italian footballers never are...

 

[mank!]

It must be because Serie A is full of exciting attacking football.

 

[Mobius]

It must be because Serie A is full of exciting attacking football.

 

[Jonaldo]

Who needs Wayne Rooney when you've got Mark Yeates?

 

[mank!]

He set up all three goals against Hartlepool...fucking brilliant player. Shame he looks like an absolute Chav and sounds like Brad Pitt in Snatch

 

[Wij]

ferg losing his touch?
your remember the year 199?
enough said.

Antioch Rangers beat Byzantium United 5-4. Your point ?

 

[amodien]

Antioch Rangers beat Byzantium United 5-4. Your point ?

The point is ferguson won the treble!!

 

[mank!]

he's not that old

 

[k9awya]

I think people are looking at Rooney now. The lad's 18, he's nowhere near his prime and potential yet and he outscored both Ibrahimovic and Torres at Euro 2004. The £28m or whatever it is has been spent mostly on the potential of Rooney, not his current ability.

anyone with a brain knows torred and zlatan have more potential

zlatan is still young ish and he is PERFECT for this league, you cant get a more perfect striker for the prem

 

[mank!]

I think Rooney's got the potential to be better than both, and his signing means one less foreign import which can only strengthen the national team.

Who is that in your avatar by the way?

 

[Doh_boy]

iirc it's van der vaart.

Someone every united fan wants united to buy....well the only reason I don't is that I've not seen him play.

 

[Jonaldo]

I'm more than happy with our Kanouté, Keane & Defoe combination with a youngster on the bench. Those three main strikers for a combined fee of roughly £18.5m is a bargain I think, and with youngsters such as Barnard, Slabber, Malcolm, Yeates & Eddie Sousa, if only one or two of those fulfil their potential then we have some nice options up front in Yidland and no need to spend ludicrous amounts on someone who might be the best player ever.