0% Villa: Rooney signs new 5 year contract!

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Pay a tax bill equivalent to a third world countries GDP for one.

[The Man With A Stick]

I heard somewhere that Man City have to reduce their wage bill to fit in with UEFA regulations on competition? That might rule them out from buying him.

I can't imagine him going abroad as he would have to keep travelling back and forth thousands of miles to see his kid assuming she gets main custody.

Surely all they have to do is sell Robinho and hey presto bring in fat boy?

Already gone to Milan hasn't he?

Shifting Bellamy and Santa Cruz off the wage bill certainly won't do them any harm though.

[Gareth]

you never know we might get a whole summer off Man City trying to unsettle our players if they get Rooney

[Percy McCarthy]

Another so called big 4 club in crisis and more chance for us to take advantage of their decline and get above them.

They will always be top four because they've got loads of fans in Norway.

[Lizz]

Just watched the press conference with SAF and I have to say, all other feelings aside, I almost feel sorry for him on this one.   Rooney seems to be acting like the wanker we all know he is and has shafted Ferguson big style.   If I was a genuine United fan, my piss would be boiling.

As it is, I'll sit back and see how it unfolds.

SAF looked shell shocked to me [though it could all be an act], who needs soap operas when this is going on.

I'd like to see Rooney go abroad, partly to see if he could cope.

[Phil from the upper holte]

I heard somewhere that Man City have to reduce their wage bill to fit in with UEFA regulations on competition? That might rule them out from buying him.

I can't imagine him going abroad as he would have to keep travelling back and forth thousands of miles to see his kid assuming she gets main custody.

Surely all they have to do is sell Robinho and hey presto bring in fat boy?

Already gone to Milan hasn't he?

Shifting Bellamy and Santa Cruz off the wage bill certainly won't do them any harm though.

So he has, I thought he was on loan

[Dave]

I heard somewhere that Man City have to reduce their wage bill to fit in with UEFA regulations on competition? That might rule them out from buying him.

I can't imagine him going abroad as he would have to keep travelling back and forth thousands of miles to see his kid assuming she gets main custody.

They will fook off fat arse Barry for a start..

How are they going to do that?

He's two years into a five year contract on stupid money per week. Nobody else will pay that, he won't want to take a wage-cut.

No reason he would go anywhere.

[Karl Bridges]

Arry wants him  at Spurs.

[olaftab]

I was reading that Times article today and agreed with most of it except for this horse-shit

McGrath took the challenge of Ferguson's dismissal and played brilliantly for another five years with Aston Villa. But at least he was replaced, in the shape of Steve Bruce and Gary Pallister, by better players.

By 'five', I assume he means 'seven' and by 'better players' I assume he means 'players not fit to lace his boots'.

Dickhead.

THIS IS THE STORY OF THE DAY.
Forget shrek
how can a sports journalist be so ill informed. Bruce and Pallister may well have been very good defenders, but God was so much better than anyone  else for a generation

truely incredible...Bruce and Pallister better players  BETTER PLAYERS than Paul McGrath and this twat writes for the Times ..oh yes I forgot it's a Murdoch paper!

[olaftab]

Listening to Ferguson today I feel quite elated! What goes around comes around. I am still hurting from  him tapping  up and signing Yorke and Bosnich and now Utd fans know how we felt when  Barry and Milner left.

[Jimbo]

Garnering sympathy for Man Utd was exactly what the press conference was all about. Does anybody think Fergie would have indulged the press so much without an ulterior motive? This was designed to make them look like victims, and him look like the baddie. The fact is that they're both utterly devoid of scruples. Rooney has been taught well by his mentor.   

[pauliewalnuts]

Another so called big 4 club in crisis and more chance for us to take advantage of their decline and get above them.

They will always be top four because they've got loads of fans in Norway.

The fact they've got loads of fans from Norway is probably a decent contributor to their coffers.

I bet there were a similar number of people from Norway at their last home game as there were people from over 50 miles away from Birmingham at our last home game.

Rooney's fallen out with Ferguson. To read some of the posts on here you'd think Man United were sinking down the table towards mediocrity.

[pauliewalnuts]

It'll be interesting if it turns out that Man City have made Rooney a mega offer (talk on the radio this evening was of a 500,000 a week offer - how revolting is that in this current economic climate?) and he goes there.

Interesting because, if there's any consistency about it, we should be hearing the same people who were labelling us a selling club a few months ago for having Milner prised away, saying the same thing about Man United.

[Dave]

It'll be interesting if it turns out that Man City have made Rooney a mega offer (talk on the radio this evening was of a 500,000 a week offer - how revolting is that in this current economic climate?) and he goes there

Although as Ads says at the top of the thread, all that extra tax he would generate would be very useful.

[TheSandman]

He'll probably use it to get a good accountant to advise him into some good loopholes though.