0% Villa: Rooney signs new 5 year contract!

[willywombat]

I cant pretend to be unhappy at seeing manure in turmoil but neither can I say say I would take pleasure in seeing him join citeh who, in my opinion, have no class whatsoever.

[Eckybloke]

The rumour now is that Rooney will buy himself out of his last season, which is feesable as he would get more than it would cost from a signing on fee.

I read that too. That would be superb!  Can Utd afford to lose £45m just like that?

[Concrete John]

The rumour now is that Rooney will buy himself out of his last season, which is feesable as he would get more than it would cost from a signing on fee.

I read that too. That would be superb!  Can Utd afford to lose £45m just like that?

I thought that rule was only applicable if he went abroad?

[GullyFoyle]

There's an article in the Independent. Click Here
Says he can leave for 1 years wages (£5 mil) plus a small amount of compensation.

Thanks to cdvillafan for the short links tip.

[Monty]

Rooney joining City would put him quite firmly in the C**t Club. Ronaldo may have left for Real Madrid and undoubted riches, but he at the very least was following a dream (everyone in Iberia grows up wanting to play for Real or Barca, Spanish or Portuguese). Rooney would quite literally be going for the money, proving him to be a classless bastard.

[lovejoy]

Surely Rooney has done enough already to prove he's a classless bastard?

[Monty]

Surely Rooney has done enough already to prove he's a classless bastard?

He's done nearly everything, true, but moving across a city for the money would be the clincher, the "no way back from this" moment.

[Concrete John]

I heard a snippet of a Roy Keane interview on the way in to work this morning, where he said Shrek should do whatever was right for him.  His argument was that players are treated pieces of meat, however well paid, and clubs have no loyalty to them once they are of no further use.  Fergie has been quite merciless in showing players the door once he has no further use for them, plus I'm sure it's a quite dictatorial regime he runs, including their private lives and international careers. 

Point being that maybe Rooney is fed up of him and wants out.  That I could understand, so wouldn't necessarily criticise him for it, but where he then goes may show his character more.

[Chris Smith]

If Rooney's fee was based on his performces since April they'd be lucky to get £10k for him.

[Chico Hamilton III]

Point being that maybe Rooney is fed up of him and wants out.  That I could understand, so wouldn't necessarily criticise him for it,

Well, he's probably fed up because he got caught shagging tarts while his missus was up the duff which affected his state of mind which affected his game which meant he was dropped which meant he had a fall out with his manager. And there's usually only one result when a player falls out with Fergie

He brought it all on himself

 

[Reality]

Ferguson has just told a press conference that Rooneys agent has intimated that he wants to leave. Remember those words?

[Can Gana Be Bettered!?!?]

Okay, so he doesnt use those exact words but it's close enough.

Could he turn out to be as good as Hou's inspired Gary McAllister type signing when he was Liverpool boss...

http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/teams/m/man_utd/9104392.stm

[mshurst]

This is fantastic.

My colleague has just said, and I quote, "If any other English club sign Rooney I'm going to be fucking vexed!"

Please let him go to any English club ... Even Citeh. I think it'd be fan-fucking-tastic-ally-hilarious!

[eastie]

Fergie also said he had a meeting with Rooney and Rooney told him he wants to leave the club, fergie looks low and devastated in his press conference- not the fergie we know !

He also said Rooney will be out of the team toMorrow with an ankle injury- is this the empire of sir alex beginning to crumple?

Rooney apparently telling close friends he'd be very open to a move to man city!

[not3bad]

Please let him go to any English club ... Even Citeh.

They could make some sort of poster saying "Welcome to Manchester" featuring Rooney in a City shirt.