Monday, 21 May 2012

FTK Blog: Wayne Rooney’s woes are Arsenal’s gain

Alex-Ferguson

Why am I referring to Wayne Rooney in an Arsenal blog you may ask, and that question is not out of order given the fact that the Arsenal AGM is taking place as we read this. There will be a blog from our resident shareholder contributor Vic Crescit as soon as he sends it to us, so in a sense I am able to discuss general football issues today. The Evertonian youngster burst onto the scene by driving in a thunderbolt of a goal off David Seaman’s bar at Goodison park what seems almost a decade ago when in fact it was on 19th October 2002. Those of you who cannot recall the strike can relive it here

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kNOcer5mNCA

If the technical skill of bringing down the ball from over his shoulder after the 20 yard lofted chip from midfield was not in itself amazing, the vision and awareness of the final strike certainly ranks among one of the finest goals that I have ever seen scored against the Gunners. It was Berkampesque in it’s execution, something beautiful and ruthlessly efficient. How is it  that the lad has now fallen from grace and appears to be ready to move to the blue half of Manchester, without his owners The Glazers cashing in a single penny.

The recent events at Old Trafford clearly signal an end of the relationship between Alex Ferguson and his mercurial prodigy who apparently remains an Everton fan. What I cannot understand is why everyone is blaming Rooney as opposed to SAF. Remember Beckham? Recall Japp Stam? Why is it that this knight of the realm has amazing Teflon tendencies when it comes to apportioning blame?  SAF may be the most successful manager in the history of the Premier League, but his legacy may be to preside over the decline of the red empire, the Theatre of Dreams could become the biggest venue for nightmares in due course. With a massive debt repayment due, the loss of world class players in successive seasons, and the prospect of no new future major signings must be giving those arrogant mancs a real headache.

But the prospect of not being able to cash in on their prized asset after he was rumoured to be the subject of a 90 million pound bid from Real Madrid earlier this year is going to seriously up the ante with regard to financial Armageddon for the North West team. Well you know what, as if I care… Pay back is a bitch aint it? They may have two Champions League titles more than us and have dominated the commercial markets and been the darlings of the FA for decades, when you consider all the grief that we have had to suffer at their hands, the pizza wars, the brawls involving Roy Keane,  van Neelsteroy, and Patrice Evra just to name a few, then I shall not be shedding any tears for SAF or The Glazers.

Just as the Roman Empire fell and that of the Soviet Union, all mega dynasties have to come to an end. Ask the Liverpool fans. Yet just as we see the cracks in Old Trafford appearing, the reign of Arsenal’s is yet to begin. The only pity is that we did not start the dynasty whilst the likes of Ronaldo and Rooney were still playing for Man U. How hollow will a Premiership title be if not gained against the best  opponents. Sundays’ game at Eastlands will undoubtedly lay down a marker, but it is the Blue half of London that we need to conquer. The initial accolade for any future Arsenal reign must be the Champions League where all the best teams and players jostle for bragging rights. I do delight from the pain being experienced in the North West but a cautionary note must be sounded.

Rooney claims that the decision to move was partly based upon the failure of the club to assure him that they would make future big name signings to replace Ronaldo and Tevez. A club without ambition. Now where have Gooners heard that before? There is a  remarkable sense of déjà vu as one reads the statement, yet what we have in youth at Arsenal to replace any disenchanted stars like Fabregas in the future is really to die for. Man United’s youth buys have potential, but I am going to boldly declare that our players are more prepared for the future battles. I don’t want Rooney to leave the UK, Rooney going to Man City would be a fitting slap in the face to SAF. It would hurt and hurt badly, and my response would be a wry smile.My longstanding hatred of all things Man U means that  I am going to enjoy it while it lasts and hopes that it gets even worse. Administration anyone? Am I bitter, immature? No neither of those. I would just like to see justice being done. If you sup with the red devil, then don’t be surprised if you go to hell….

 

An ode to Rooney…

When shagging grannies became a bore, Rooney, Rooney…

He tried it with a high class whore, Rooney… Rooney…

Colleen has kicked him out the house,

the dirty northern cheating scouse,

Now fat Rooney is going to screw Fergie!

      lalalalalalalala lala! lala! lalalalalalalala lala! lala…!

Colleen has kicked him out the house,

the dirty northern cheating scouse,

Now fat Rooney is going to screw Fergie!

 

sung to this…!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j072zYAIyg8

FTK

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Fabregas_The_King

Tony aka FTK co founded Arsenalinsider.com in November 2006. often found on the site having a rant about the topic of the day.

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  • maniac

    Wrong.

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  • John in Norfolk

    Maniac,

    What is?

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  • DJ Dragonfly

    I would love Rooney at Arsenal. He would fit perfectly into our system.

    If Man United were unable to sell him in January and he was available next summer, Wenger would be foolish not to put in a bid.

    Despite his dodgy attitude, Rooney is a class act and his signing alone could convince Fabregas to stay with us instead of moving to Barcelona.

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  • John in Norfolk

    FTK,

    I think you are safe in the assumption that Rooney will stay in England. Let’s face it the muppet can barely speak English so the chances of him learning another language are zero.

    I don’t think Chelsea is a serious option, with Drogba and Anelka there Rooneys’ place would be on the bench.

    Manchester City have the money and the kamikaze spending attitude to attract the England striker. They will shortly have a vacancy for a greedy, self regarding and disloyal player when Adibayawn leaves in January.

    Just so long as Arsene doesn’t decide to splash Arsenal’s hard earned cash on the fat, balding Scouser.

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  • harper

    DJ, do be serious. Arsenal cannot nor will not pay Rooney’s wage demands – end of. He’s on 150,000 pounds a week right now and that’s still not enuf for him. Get real.

    Great blog, FTK. I totally share your hatred and resentment of the salford crew, detest them utterly. And I won’t apologize for it. Sick to death of the referee/FA favoritism. Like the fact that they can commit over 50 fouls at OT (in 3-4 successive games there) against us and get only 3 yellows while in the same span of games we committed 45 fouls and got 18 yellow cards! I could go on…

    One of the things that’s always infuriated me is how sky made that image of Keown barracking RVN when he missed that pen into an iconic image for Arsenal-haters, and for the mancs to use against us ever since. What never gets mentioned is that at the time sky owned 10% shares in Utd and deliberately did not show how RVN had behaved throughout the game previously. Keown was getting angrier and angrier at his provocations and simulation–at one point you could hear Keane try to calm Keown down and say something like “I know, I know what he’s doing but you gotta calm down” after Keown shouted to Keane “you see what he’s doing?” RVN remains one of the most revolting, obnoxious, cheating, cowardly sneaks ever to play in the sport. So when he missed that pen, there was damned good reason for Keown to behave as he did.

    Sorry for going on about that, just one of the many sore points I have about Utd. The sickening favoritism and special treatment they get from the media and the football authorities has always rankled.

    As for Rooney…part of me does condemn his lack of loyalty but then nowadays it’s naive to expect loyalty from any footballer. He’s all gung-ho for Utd as long as their splashing the cash and winning trophies. The minute they’re in trouble he wants out.

    As for purplenose, this is what he gets for so staunchly supporting the Glazers & acting as if their money would never end. [continued]

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  • harper

    [continued] The Glazer model was never sustainable from the first. It always depended on Ferguson winning the big trophies almost every season. As long as Utd won the the league and esp. the CL, the debt + the huge player salaries and bonuses could be sustained – but only just and only for a limited period.

    Inevitably there’d be a time when that would no longer be the case. You can’t win big trophies every season. Once that happens, your performance falls, you have less money coming in and you can’t pay the big transfer fees and wages to big name players–esp. when they have other clubs with more money bidding for them.

    Our model has an in-built safeguard that assumes we’ll be out of the CL every 4 yrs, or something like that.

    I don’t believe for a minute Rooney will leave England. He doesn’t have the cojones to leave Mama England, he’d be totally lost outside that protective cocoon. This is why our so-called namby-pamby soft foreign players are much tougher than most English players – most of whom couldn’t hack it outside England.

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  • Andy Mack

    If Manure really fall from grace and drop to the championship, where will the Premier league referees call home? :D

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  • Joe

    I’ve gotta disagree with that. If Rooney finds his form again and played off Drogba it would be lethal.

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  • DJ Dragonfly

    Harper, you get real.

    If Man United are unable to sell Rooney in January, his fee will dramatically by next summer. Now I know the club won’t be able to pay him £150,000 a week, but we have a big calling card and that’s Arsene Wenger.

    I think Rooney would be willing to take a drop in wages in order to work under Wenger. As much as I like Bendtner and Vela, I’d rather have Rooney over those players every day of the week.

    Who would’ve thought Tevez would sign for Man City or Sol Campbell joining Arsenal.

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  • Fabregas_The_King

    Maniac

    :P

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  • Fabregas_The_King

    Rooney at Arsenal????

    NO THANKS!

    (from Islington Help the Aged group.)

    :lol:

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  • Fabregas_The_King

    Thanks Harper,

    I am glad that others share my hatred of the Red nosed Manc and his team

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  • Fabregas_The_King

    J.I.N

    Heaven forbid,

    Rooney’s wage demands are too much, no way would Arsene pay him 200,000 a week!

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  • shakabulagunner

    There is no time a club wins the EPL trophy that it is less worthy. ManU and Chelsea have won when Arsenal were without Viera, Berghamp, Henry, etc but noone, no in the least their fans felt it is less worthy just because the competition from Arsenal was somewhat weakened.

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  • John in Norfolk

    Joe,

    A big “if”.

    Drogba and Rooney are the same type of player, both at their best when playing as a lone striker. There is no way that they could play together and both be at their best.

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  • harper

    What planet are you on??? Hilarious.

    Wayne Rooney would take a huge drop in wages just to work under Wenger??? Utterly delusional. Don’t impose your worship of Wenger onto Rooney.

    It’s clear to me that Rooney has never thought much of Arsenal or Wenger. I don’t think any of the big name United players would come to Arsenal if given the chance. The only club in London Rooney would consider going to would be Chelsea – end of. They’re the only ones winning trophies right now. Rooney doesn’t think he can win trophies with United anymore, you really think he’ll come to a club that can’t beat the top 2 teams in the country consistently, that loses out to newly promoted sides at home and consistently concedes 30-40 goals every season? Yeah, right.

    Rooney has City offering him 250,000 per week or Chelsea offering him similar money. Right, he’d turn that down just for the privilege of working with Wenger.
    :-*

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  • Fabregas_The_King

    OK Shaka,
    your view is valid, but look at the Scottish Premier League, do we really want a Premiership like that???

    Arsenal or Chelsea with Man City bringing up the rear.

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  • goonamerica

    Wayne Rooney the tiger woods of English football and I’m not sure he has the discipline to deal with the vagaries which are yet to come his way personally. We will see on that one.
    Needless to say he must jumpstart his form for his value to remain.

    The financial standards are going to finally start to kick in with teams this coming year while at the same time there is still a small window for larger than life deals. I think Rooney’s peeps know this and told him you move now or your value will drop. Continent or England? looking outside in. can’t see Manure allowing him to go to a direct opponent in the PL and especially mancshitty.
    I think everyone that doesn’t own an oilwell is suffering financially right now anyway- all american owners are hurting in the cash flow department. Roman’s been quiet really but he must worry about the Euro directive on the maths being used to determine personal debt surrender to continue to play in europe.
    I think one thing is obvious and that is AFC financially sound and with a strong squad will be a beneficiary of all this drama. Tee hee

    Oh by the way a second Tee Hee to our poor footballing neighbours the spuddlies. Who got rogered in europe last night! 3 nil after 13 minutes of actual play! (it took gormless 3 minutes to figure out what colour the card was, the prat! Yep they were right, it was historic. quickest goal in champtions league this year. (70 seconds) up against the holders, they couldn’t even spell candle let alone hold one! (yeah bale hattrick in 2nd half when Inter had folded their tent is notanything to hang your hat on, they were outclassed crap.) Here’s shout out to our little stupid mate Dan… guess we wont be hearing your rubbish for a few weeks. now f*ck off!!

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  • John in Norfolk

    Yes it was good to see ‘Arry the Twitch wandering around the technical area looking just like the bewildered old man that he is.

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  • Notoverthehill

    Rooney’s behavior to the South African amateur team and local referee at the last World Cup was a disgrace. No apology either from this misbegotten example of British yoof as “bottom feeders”. AW may like the skills of Rooney but nothing else, period.
    As for Manure going out of business any time soon, do not hold your breath. The Glazers have a cash machine that pays the interest on the debt and one company from ZERO profit the previous year to £200 millions profit the LAST YEAR. Read the accounts if you do not believe me. Glazers are far smarter than the buffoons who owned Liverpool. The new owner of Liverpool will follow the Glazers’ business model, I suspect. Glazers will have told Whisky Nose to sell Rooney in January if he must, but if Rooney goes for NIX, Whisky Nose wwill be given his P45 if he was not a free bus pass holder!

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