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pede54;2946877 said:Well, as previously noted, Fergie is under orders to fully back the Glazers, so he's been in a very difficult position for a while now. I'm sure he would like to tell the World how these incompetent Yanks have ruined his club but unless he's thinking of quitting United himself, he has no choice but to toe the line. So the blame for United's steady decline can only be blamed on the owners.
United fans......Some of the stuff you have written here before you had even heard both sides of the Rooney saga, is fickle to the extreme. It never ceases to amaze me how United fans always turn so hatefully against their own players, when their manager tells them that a certain player will be leaving. The Rooney episode is not the first time we have witnessed it either.
So now you know that the reason Rooney wants out is because the Glazers have no intention of keeping United a competitive club for the future. David Gill could not assure Rooney that there will be investment in the squad.
Look at the squad you have. It is still a squad of hopefuls and has beens. If you were Rooney's age would you want to commit to a club with such limited ambition?
This is NOT the Manchester United of legend we are talking about here. This a completely different club altogether now. They have no money to spend any longer as is evident from the players they have to use of very limited ability.
These players 10 years ago, or even 5 years ago would never have trod on the turf at Old Trafford, and well you know it. So the writing has been on the wall for you all to see for a long time now.
Think of what Rooney has done for your club over the last 6 years instead of what has happened in the last 6 days. To do otherwise is fickle, ungrateful and ignorant.
Don't forget that Rooney is simply an employee of the club. He isn't a Man U fan and has never claimed to be one. His responsibility is to himself and his own ambitions, and if your club cannot match his ambitions then you have to blame the club, the owners and the board, for the mess you are now in.
Look at Liverpool and begin to worry.
I don't think a squad of 'hopefuls and has beens' is entirely fair when you consider virtually the same side narrowly missed out on the league last season, reached the Champions League quarter finals (losing to a side that made the final) and won the Carling Cup.
That said I agree with most of your other points, this squad doesn't compare to the squads of the past and at the end of the day being a footballer is a job and if you can get paid more elsewhere then naturally you would take it unless you support the club or something.
Nady;2946888 said:We can't afford Van Der Vaart's salary. Isn't it obvious? Thats why we now have to buy unproven players and hope they flourish so that we can sell them with profit later on.
True, but arguably we've wasted (unless they work out) 17 million on two unknowns. When most clubs buy an unknown they don't spend a sum anything like that. For 17mil I'd expect better and I'd prefer to see the money spent on someone like VDV in the pursuit of success rather than adding two players who will play a handful of games. Thats what the youth system is meant for imo.