Since Rooney’s somewhat startling omission from the starting eleven against Real Madrid on Tuesday night and Fergie’s self-imposed media ban since then, the press have gone into overdrive and have not only decided that Wayne Rooney is leaving Man Utd but have even suggested places he might go and how much he will cost.
They have even taken into account whether or not these clubs could afford to pay him the kind of wages he has become accustomed to at United in these austere and FFP Regulated times.
Woah there, tiger!
A player was left on the bench for a match – admittedly a big player and a very big match but Kagawa was also benched despite scoring a hat-trick in his last game and costing us a fair packet to land in the summer, Evans was also benched despite being a colossus in defence for us this season, Valencia was also benched despite being a generally consistently high performer, Young was also benched despite… well… he was benched.
Are all these players facing the exit door too?
I do appreciate that none are of the high profile and of the same ability as Rooney and of the lot of them, Rooney’s omission was the most surprising but get a grip guys!
At least wait until Sir Alex has spoken on the subject before putting Rooney in your team sheets for PSG’s match against Nancy this weekend!
Which is what I have done so I was eager to see what Fergie had to say about all things Rooney in his press conference this morning.
And I wasn’t disappointed. Fergie was superb in his press conference this morning. He cut straight to the chase, told the reporters gathered that Wayne is going nowhere, that there are no issues between Rooney and himself (indeed, Fergie banned journalists from two newspapers from this press conference and all press conferences in future until they apologise for suggesting that there were any problems) and said that the reason for leaving Rooney out was purely tactical and that this was all explained to Rooney beforehand and he was “absolutely fine” with the decision.
Fergie ended by saying that “Rooney will be here next season, you have my word on that”.
Given that Rooney currently has two and a half years on his current deal, there’s probably not a great surprise about that so I would expect speculation to resurface in twelve months’ time!
