Sideshow Bob
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Any mention of his fondness for the more mature woman, very very mature woman?
Or the fact he only turned up fit for pre-season once in all his time at United, and that was the season he thought he was going to City?
Yes they did cover his off field behaviour and mistakes both the granny and when he had more money the higher class company he paid for.
The season of his first contract dispute he was dreadful he was rotten at the start of 2010-11 it was only after the contract was sorted Fergie sent him off to the states for a few weeks to get fit. Came back and fired us to the title and a European cup final.
He had some choice words to say about that contract dispute basically he was proved right in the end.
It's funny I had no time for the lad the last 4 or 5 years at Old Trafford where he just went through the motions, if we were lucky, and I was gutted when he beat Sir Bob Charlton's goalscoring record at United, but I kinda like the guy again now. Absence, distance and Time makes the heart grow fonder I guess. If only we could get Gary N, Rio and Scholes to disappear for a few years the world would be a better place.
Erm, erm how was he proved right?
Well his contract dispute was in 2010 when he said he wanted to leave because of the lack of investment and was worried about Utd being competitive ove the next 5 years. Within 5 years Fergie was gone and the club have never recovered.
He was rightly frustrated in 2010 Ronaldo and Tevez were gone and not replaced the second best team in Europe in 2009 was kind of neglected and over time it got worse and worse.
For me Rooney should have left when Fergie went I think at that point he needed a fresh challenge in life and Chelsea wanted him it might have done him some good. His decline came at a time when he had no real support around him to see him through and look after him like he did for Giggs/Scholes we were still relying on him. The contract the club gave him in 2013 was stupid he was the first to have Woodward's pants down in negotiations and a long line of players follow him.
When you go back and look at the earlier stuff from 2004-2012 the guy was unreal not only brilliantly talented but the attitude was exactly what you need as well. He would do anything to win even if it meant crossin the line Utd need players like that again.
As i've said my opinion of him has gone up in his absence, I just feel if he dedicated himself to the sport(he was warned in his teens he'd struggle when he was 27/28 because of his body shape) and learned the game properly(and not just played like he did in the playground) he could have gone down as one of the very best anywhere, ever. He still had a great career but it could/should have been so much better.
And on leaving, Ronaldo was always leaving, and Teves p*ssed the club about it was right he was allowed to leave, Wayne's problem was his head was turned by the money on offer at City and Chelsea, which as our highest profile player is fine, but the way he went about it rubbed a lot of United fans up the wrong way.
Tevez wasn’t allowed to leave he chose to leave signed a deal with City while Utd twiddled their thumbs and the issue wasn’t just that they left it’s that they weren’t replaced with players of anywhere near the same quality.
Tevez messed United around from the off, he said he wanted to go back to Argentina when he was 27 as soon as he arrived at Old Trafford, then he said he wanted to play in Spain before he headed back to South America so I'm not surprised the club weren't falling over themselves trying to commit him to a 4/5year contract. Then City batted their eyelashes and the rest is history.
They paid a stonking amount of money to get him as well think they paid 48m to get him out of his deal with his agent and he was reported to be on £300k a week which was mad money back in 2009.
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