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According to the Spanish daily ‘Sport’, Real Madrid will look to soften the blow of this week’s Champions League exit by launching a bid to lure Wayne Rooney from Manchester United .
Real Madrid were knocked out of the Champions League by Lyon in midweek which has led to a torrent of criticism for Real in sections of the Spanish media. According to ‘Sport’, Real Madrid president Florentino Perez will not “question the validity of the transfer policy” of big money signings and will instead “try to disguise the European ridicule and minimize its impact to the fans” by placating them with Rooney’s signature.
Rooney has been in outstanding form this season, scoring 30 goals in all competitions already and ‘Sport’ comments that “the Manchester United striker is without doubt one of the best players in the world.” Real Madrid successfully captured Cristiano Ronaldo from Manchester United last summer for a world record fee and reportedly will now look towards Old Trafford again.
Real Madrid will have been disappointed by last summer’s addition to their strike force, Frenchman Karim Benzema . In addition, ‘Sport’ claims that despite his good form, Argentine forward Gonzalo Higuain has never been a favourite of Real Madrid chief Perez.
Although ‘Sport’ acknowledges that luring Rooney “does not seem easy”, they note that Real Madrid have previously succeeded in capturing Manchester United stars Ronaldo and David Beckham. (IMScouting)
Given the history between Real Madrid and the Old Trafford outfit it is clearly very unlikely that Sir Alex would even consider any bid for Manchester United’s prized asset and even if the bid was the reported £100m+ even the Glazers wouldn’t be foolish enough to cash in on Wayne Rooney.
The La Liga side was dumped out of the Champions League and as a result the clubs owners are desperately trying to appease their fanbase with another big name signing and the likes of Franck Ribery and Rooney loom large but Florentino Perez may as well just stick to bagging Bayern Munich’s Frenchman because he really hasn’t a hope in hell of getting the England striker.
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anonymous - March 12th, 2010 at 8:45 pm
As if. Rooney is the man now. He has always been talked about as if he were, but it’s now fact. There are more then 100million reasons to stay at ManU.
In 50 years, fans will be watching ManU games and the camera will scroll over to Rooney sitting in what was once Sir Bobby Charlton’s seat and they’ll say Rooney was (and still is) the greatest ever.
For all the stupid jokes about Rooney, the kid is brilliant by constantly proclaiming his love for ManU.
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anonymous - March 12th, 2010 at 10:38 pm
Man United would sell Rooney for 100m+, and they’d be right to. No offence but its stupid to suggest otherwise.
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anonymous - March 12th, 2010 at 10:47 pm
I’m a Liverpool fan who’d walk the length of England to watch Rooney play. He is better than Ronaldo and on par with Messi. Well, maybe he’s even better than Messi because of his work rate and team ethic.
I’m willing to bet if you asked the best footballers in the world they’d all sing his praises.
People will mock and poke fun at him but everyone would want a Rooney in their team.
Matt..
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anonymous - March 13th, 2010 at 1:12 am
i don’t know where this rumor came out , man utd won’t sell him even for 200m, if sir alex will be the boos
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anonymous - March 13th, 2010 at 1:15 am
he is 4 time better than CR, and 5 time than Messi.
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SpecialOne - March 13th, 2010 at 1:43 am
Why do they bother? I think its why do you bother to write these articles. obviously he isnt going anywhere
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anonymous - March 13th, 2010 at 1:53 am
So this is all according to one article in the spanish press? Right. Must be true then
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anonymous - March 13th, 2010 at 7:00 am
This is so silly really. Real Madrid would be foolish to even try to sign Rooney. They successfully signed Ronaldo because he wanted to go there and we couldn’t stop him. Rooney clearly wants to stay at United. Yes, Real Have succeeded in signing Becks and Ronny, but they are both from different generations of ManUtd stars. To think that ManUtd would dare to sell 2 of their huge stars from te same generation is ridiculous. What would they have left? Giggs and Scholes are on their way out, Berbatov is proving a lazy 30m bust, and most of the youngsters aren’t ready for the weight on their shoulders. Rooney is now officially the face of United! To let him go would be the biggest mistake in the world. The Glazers have already rejected a 1tril pound offer for the club, that would show that they aren’t desperate for money, so selling Rooney would be far from a possiblity. Selling him now would only lessen the worth of the Glazers’ huge cash cow.
“Green and Gold, till they Die or Fold!”
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anonymous - March 13th, 2010 at 10:28 am
if thats so,why did you sign ronaldo,why not rooney?
idiots.they already took a 10% of our cake by beckham and ronaldo and now these ******** are trying to complete the 30% by rooney as well
why dont they leave us?
just when they were knocked out,ronaldo became trash to them.
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anonymous - March 13th, 2010 at 10:30 am
In a football magazine,it was told that fergie didnt want to sell ronaldo but ronaldo told he supported the club at youth so he got the offer accepted
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anonymous - March 13th, 2010 at 12:41 pm
ronaldo wanted to leave, rooney doesnt.ferguson allowed ronaldo to leave, he wont allow rooney to.end of.
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anonymous - March 13th, 2010 at 12:46 pm
Madrid, you dont need new signings you need a team. United’s reliance on Rooney means they can’t aford to sell him even for £100m. And, unlike Ronaldo, he doesn’t want to leave. You can’t force players to go. Also the Glazers know that if they sold Rooney to pay off debt the enraged fans would boycott them into oblivion. They love Rooney in a way they never loved Cristiano.
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anonymous - March 13th, 2010 at 6:50 pm
its man utd has turned to a feeder team for real madrid.first they took becks and ronaldo.now they want rooney.thats stupid i don’t think SAF would allow that and beside can they gurantee winning trophines when they got transhed by lyon.
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anonymous - June 1st, 2010 at 3:00 pm
if man utd want to sell rooney 100 m they can change him with van der vaart and sergio ramos and karim benzema and we saw that sir alex want to breing a new striker and a midfield and a new player back ho want to take gary neville place and we saw that real madrid want to bring new midfield player ( lampard gerrard ) and a back palyer (ashley cole)
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