Rooney wants to stay here for life

[Numquam Moribimur]

I would add Ole but we did buy him technically ( I don't doubt his commitment to the club at all though) :o , time will tell about Wesley.


ahhh i get your point about ole ! .....and wesley is a born and bred manc :)

[Uniteder]

ahhh i get your point about ole ! .....and wesley is a born and bred manc :)
yea, hope he stays that way till his carrer is winds down.:)

[holytoledo]

ahhh i get your point about ole ! .....and wesley is a born and bred manc :)

Ole has earned the right to call himself a born and bred manc

[Uniteder]

Ole has earned the right to call himself a born and bred manc
Cant argue with that but sadly he's not.
I think hes one of the players like Keano or Cantona or even Scholes who fell in love with club and we loved them back. :)

[sdotsom]

damn right....one of the best million pounds we ever spent as a club

Ole is a legend here no matter what

[Cevno]

Cant argue with that but sadly he's not.
I think hes one of the players like Keano or Cantona or even Scholes who fell in love with club and we loved them back. :)
BUT then rooney is also not a manc.
what about fergie,would you call him a manc now and how many managers nowadays manage a club for 18 years.

[Lancashire Lad]

BUT then rooney is also not a manc.

And your point is? A lot of people on this United forum are not from Manchester. Does it matter, its surely how you feel!

A lot of great United players have not been from Manchester:
Best
Law
Charlton
Edwards
Robson
Coppell
Whiteside
Keane
Cantona
Giggs
Ole

Its great to hear Rooney utter the words, whether he delivers on them is up to him and the club. But they are the words fans want to hear. How many players stay at a club for 10 years these days? The norm is to move around.

Is he not, like the United fans on this forum part of the United tribe?

[.:soccer:.]

I was OK with him until the match against Portugal. That got me really peeved off. I don't really like him now. :mad:

[benni...]

And your point is? A lot of people on this United forum are not from Manchester. Does it matter, its surely how you feel!

A lot of great United players have not been from Manchester:
Best
Law
Charlton
Edwards
Robson
Coppell
Whiteside
Keane
Cantona
Giggs
Ole

Its great to hear Rooney utter the words, whether he delivers on them is up to him and the club. But they are the words fans want to hear. How many players stay at a club for 10 years these days? The norm is to move around.

Is he not, like the United fans on this forum part of the United tribe?

No Van Nistelrooy?

[StrikerCW]

Good that he wants to stay with the club as long as he can stay on the pitch!

[Lancashire Lad]

No Van Nistelrooy?

It wasnt meant to be an exhaustive list. More about great players, length of service and loyalty. Ruuds transfer requests edge him out of the list for me at the moment. To be honest on the length of service side I had doubts if I should include Cantona.

[MtP07]

No Van Nistelrooy?
Doesn't belong on that list.

[benni...]

Maybe I read wrong. I just assumed, when he said great Manchester United players, that were not from England or Manchester...

[rooney's right boot]

:d :d :d :d :d :d :d :d :d :d :d :d :d
Rooney, Rooney , Rooney !

[Jc18star]

I was OK with him until the match against Portugal. That got me really peeved off. I don't really like him now. :mad:

United supporters for the most part don't care about England, so most here will disagree with you.

[Lancashire Lad]

United supporters for the most part don't care about England, so most here will disagree with you.

If you are a united supporter not from england that is probably true. English united fans are interested in England.

United traditionally have sought young English players as well as British. Although these days the net is cast wider.

At the end of the day United is a Lancashire club http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lancashire#Sport which is in ENGLAND

[sdotsom]

I thnk he is referring to the contingent at Old Trafford that you hear screaming

ARGENTINA

;)

[Lancashire Lad]

I thnk he is referring to the contingent at Old Trafford that you hear screaming

ARGENTINA

;)

Thats just wind up the opposition.

[Achtung]

Not to be a wet blanket, but it could all easily be moot if he doesn't find success at the club. Winning trophies isn't an inevitability, certainly not these days.

Call me cynical, but I wonder how many of the "true reds" mentioned above would have stayed had they been simply the best player on an underperforming team. Whether or not a player sticks around is partly due to the guys around them picking it up when said player can't.

True loyalty is tough to come by, and always has been. Stevie G was on his way out before they won the CL, for example. If players don't feel that their clubs are ambitious, it makes it a tough decision for them on whether to stay.

Maybe you could say a guy like Bryan Robson was truly loyal, sticking around when we were a midtable club settling for the odd FA Cup, in the shadow of the Merseyside clubs and Arsenal, even finishing below City every now and then. And in the end of course, it all paid off for him.

I guess my point is that loyalty is a fickle mistress. Rooney has huge ambitions. I just hope the club is there to match him.

[Lancashire Lad]

Not to be a wet blanket, but it could all easily be moot if he doesn't find success at the club. Winning trophies isn't an inevitability, certainly not these days.

Call me cynical, but I wonder how many of the "true reds" mentioned above would have stayed had they been simply the best player on an underperforming team. Whether or not a player sticks around is partly due to the guys around them picking it up when said player can't.

True loyalty is tough to come by, and always has been. Stevie G was on his way out before they won the CL, for example. If players don't feel that their clubs are ambitious, it makes it a tough decision for them on whether to stay.

Maybe you could say a guy like Bryan Robson was truly loyal, sticking around when we were a midtable club settling for the odd FA Cup, in the shadow of the Merseyside clubs and Arsenal, even finishing below City every now and then. And in the end of course, it all paid off for him.

I guess my point is that loyalty is a fickle mistress. Rooney has huge ambitions. I just hope the club is there to match him.

Very true.

In theory is it now easier to win the CL than the league?

United will win cups, but which ones in the coming years? I suspect that if we dont close the gap on Chelski in the league it will be the FA and CL, depending upon United redescovering what is required in Europe.