Rooney can't score goals

SexyChin SG

He is.

Only for his club, not his country.

iceFatboy SG

no more for his club, there is a michael ballack.

suckthumb.com SG

tell me how many goals he in Everton if you says he scored alot Rolling Eyes

his game is not an out and out striker like Shearer, Fowler, RVN or Owen, even when he is in Everton he is also being deploy as a 2nd striker and coming in late after the out and out striker draws defender away and being a 2nd striker he is supposed to be all over the place Embarassed

Dead_Man_Inc SG

He can't be a lone striker, he can't score goals, he will get fustrated. Just like the quarter-finals match.

or if you so good you go play as a striker lor.

Pullup Addict SG

at first when i wrote about his strking inadequacies, i thought i would be the odd one out in saying that he is not up there with lionel messi and ronaldinho, heck i was even condemned by ppl here for not knowing much about soccer when i have made enough money from betting to go for genghis khan buffet every week. The problem with ppl is that they believe too much of what they read in the papers about him and also from watching some of his goals which i admit some are spectacular but when you scrutinise his playing style, you would realise that he really plays similarly to heskey. he seems to be more interested in scoring beautiful goals rather than lots of goals. he often likes to run with the ball and charge and when he is under pressure just blasts it hoping god helps him. He has no heading ability at all, i cannot remember the last time he scored with his head. Because of this the goals he scored are painfully few when u have got so many good players like giggs supporting him at man u. It is really unbelievable for me when people start putting him alongside messi, i mean messi is up there in the heavens while rooney is down with the mortals. I am glad to have a group of like-minded individuals here who agree with his goal-scoring. I must stress that i do not like rooney, i just hate his playing style.

T.Ryousuke SG

If 2nd striker can't score then he must assist, as for Sven putting him up front then he should tell him no and put theo instead. I think he himself also want to be the one scoring goal up front as first striker.

If you see the EPL scoring chart, not difficult to find midfielder among the top 5 or 10. Dennis Bergkamp is a good example of 2nd striker, his vision is very good and you don't find him in top ten in the chart.

One thing very sad is England don't have much choice up front, some retired and refuse to play again. Issit something wrong with the team?

JLennon SG

That's true, England's choice upfront has been quite limited. Used to have an abundance of good strong centre-forwards at one time (Shearer, Fowler, Teddy, Scholes (striker/midfielder), Owen).

Its hard for Rooney to play alone cos he plays his best off another fellow striker. His performance in Portgual 2004 was great because of the foil which Owen provided.

T.Ryousuke SG

Base on Owen record, he should be an out and out striker but the goal coming from him is lesser and lesser for country and for club.

A player need to improve, someone had said Rooney style of playing I think it is even more easier for pro to understand him and more easier to handle him.

The mind set for England team need to change.

anhydrouscoppersulphate SG

a good player not only must have good skills but have sportsmanship as well, i dont see rooney anywhere near this. a good striker scores goals and is consistent in most of the matches.. since people are making such a hoo ha out of him why doesnt our mr "best player of england" perform?

i guess ppl are living in the world of epl now. totally oblivious of whats going on around the world. them thinking of rooney playing so well in the epl and in the end gets pwned by other countries. time to know who is torres, villa, podolski, messi guys... Laughing

Pullup Addict SG

The thing about rooney is that he thinks he is that damn good so much so that he even got the balls to scold beckham for not performing well when he himself sucked. he needs to know how to play football properly, he needs to improve even further. henry used to be like him until he started to improve and now he is one of the most complete guys around, head, corner kicks, free kicks, solo goals, simple goals he can all do. rooney needs to wake up his idea or else jermaine defoe would score more goals than him to be the number one striker around

iceFatboy SG

JLennon,
I do agree with you.

why rooney can't score goals is because,
1) tatically, Sven can't play crouch, cause Jose just comment in Sun how Ricardo can put Crouch in his pocket when Pool played chelsea.

2) secondly, after owen, sven doesn't dare to play Theo. He did that to please the ass-man.

Yes, Rooney should have perform better considering he recovered seven weeks from breaking his bone is his kicking leg.

and given his maturity, (20years), he should be given more respect.

3) what sven said was correct, you can't character-assassin Rooney, he is the future. unlike beckham..

Agenda SG

I fear for England then.. They need a prolific goalscorer

suckthumb.com SG

you smiply doesn't understand or catch the drift of what IceFatBoy says... Laughing and that again shows how much you knows about football

Rooney let the team down by getting himself send off but its the whole team including the mamager that let the entire England supporters down..

suckthumb.com SG

a 2nd striker is a 2nd striker he can't do as well as what a out and out striker does else he'll be the out and out striker, isn't it? putting him at an out and out striker simply shows that the manager can't figure out what is the best position for his players.. England does have some decent striker or at least better then some that was in the current WC squad just that for some strange reason the manager thinks 1 recently recovered striker, 1 can't score goals striker, 1 still limping leg striker and 1 can't even get a game for his club striker can leads them to the biggest prize in whole football...

798 SG

ahem! who is the only striker who scored for this WC? Laughing

SexyChin SG

They should have tried Walcot.

798 SG

i'm glad SGE never field walcott. Who know he might turn out?

Even though Walcott never play a match in England, I'm sure this WC he has gained valuable experience from training wif the big guys.

hope to see wenger train him well. Smile

by the way, fat ronaldo never play in WC94 but included in brazil too.

Pullup Addict SG

lionel messi was out for 3 months with a thigh injury but he came back in the last 15 minutes to score 1 and create 1 against serbia

totti was only 70 percent fit as declared by himself but he was inspirational in guiding italy so far.

rooney had 7 weeks for a minor injury to his smallest of metatarsal to recover which he himself said was onlly painful for 5 days after the incident and was already walking and running thereafter. He played and played and i have seen nothing but WWE action from him in stamping on someone's penis and push ronaldo IN FRONT of the referee. it doesnt take a rocket scientist to figure just how looney that was and that caused england to suffer with 10 men. Who knows with 11 men they could have scored 1 crucial goal but no, mr incredible hulk had to ruin it by becmoing stone cold steve austin in front of the referee. Before he demands respect, he must respect others.

Beckham may be one-dimensional but there is no doubt that he is up there with the best when it comes to freekicks and corners. He works hard out there and you can see it in his eyes that he really wants england to go through not becasue of his goals but with his effort. The guy played on with dehydration against ecuador and despite being a veteran of 3 world cups, he got himself lectured by rooney for not performing well when he himself has been playing rubbish soccer. Where is the respect from rooney for beckham?

when he was substituted in one match, he threw childish tantrums, kicking bottles, punching walls. Is this the behaviour of someone who is a professional??Does he impy that he is untouchable and should never be substituted when he has been ineffective???

There are many questions about rooney but i am sorry to say, he is a good footballer full stop.nothing more or less. He is not up there with torres, klose and not even in francisco fonseca's league. He can never be because he is too stubborn to know his limits. Eric cantona is allowed to be arrogant because he works hard off and on the field and is damn good. Any man u fan can tell u that cantona was well-known for staying behind for an hour to practise even more after every training session. His skills make manchester united into what it is today and rooney is no cantona

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