Appreciate why he's done it but 31 seems a ridiculously young age to retire from international football.
Paul Scholes went @ 30... Philipp Lahm went at 31 as well
Think the issue as well is the fact that International Football seems to be on a huge decline and winning things at Club Football is a bigger thing these days than winning something with your Country it seems
(Of course; Lahm has won everything and fully retired this year)
It's strange with Rooney. On the one hand, he's our country's record goalscorer and at club level he's won everything with Man Utd. On the other hand, he's performed dreadfully at international tournaments and been surrounded by world class players at Man U.
But when I think of him, I struggled to answer this question: What is he good at? Think of ANY other world class player, past or present, and you'll straightaway have a word or an image in your mind of something they do excellently. I don't know what Rooney does. I don't know what he's best at.
Statistically he's best at scoring goals for his country and for one of the biggest clubs in the world.
I've slagged him off in the past and I'm sure most England fans have at some point. Fact is when you sit and think of all the players, fantastic players at that, that have played for England and even more so Man United it's incredible really to think nobody has scored more than Rooney. Fantastic achievement and I think the fact he has re-signed for Everton when he could have doubled or even trebled his money in China says a lot about him. Yes, he's still paid a fortune anyway but a lot of players would have taken the pay rise for their last few years in the game.
Statistically he's best at scoring goals for his country and for one of the biggest clubs in the world.
I've slagged him off in the past and I'm sure most England fans have at some point. Fact is when you sit and think of all the players, fantastic players at that, that have played for England and even more so Man United it's incredible really to think nobody has scored more than Rooney. Fantastic achievement and I think the fact he has re-signed for Everton when he could have doubled or even trebled his money in China says a lot about him. Yes, he's still paid a fortune anyway but a lot of players would have taken the pay rise for their last few years in the game.
How many of those goals were scored in meaningless friendlies? How many of the other 'top goal scorers' had access to that many friendlies?
Statistically he's best at scoring goals for his country and for one of the biggest clubs in the world.
I've slagged him off in the past and I'm sure most England fans have at some point. Fact is when you sit and think of all the players, fantastic players at that, that have played for England and even more so Man United it's incredible really to think nobody has scored more than Rooney. Fantastic achievement and I think the fact he has re-signed for Everton when he could have doubled or even trebled his money in China says a lot about him. Yes, he's still paid a fortune anyway but a lot of players would have taken the pay rise for their last few years in the game.
How many of those goals were scored in meaningless friendlies? How many of the other 'top goal scorers' had access to that many friendlies?
If it was so easy to score in meaningless friendlies and against the minows why havent others scored as many?
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Think the issue as well is the fact that International Football seems to be on a huge decline and winning things at Club Football is a bigger thing these days than winning something with your Country it seems
(Of course; Lahm has won everything and fully retired this year)
By Sigurdsson, that is.
On the other hand, he's performed dreadfully at international tournaments and been surrounded by world class players at Man U.
But when I think of him, I struggled to answer this question: What is he good at?
Think of ANY other world class player, past or present, and you'll straightaway have a word or an image in your mind of something they do excellently. I don't know what Rooney does. I don't know what he's best at.
I've slagged him off in the past and I'm sure most England fans have at some point. Fact is when you sit and think of all the players, fantastic players at that, that have played for England and even more so Man United it's incredible really to think nobody has scored more than Rooney. Fantastic achievement and I think the fact he has re-signed for Everton when he could have doubled or even trebled his money in China says a lot about him. Yes, he's still paid a fortune anyway but a lot of players would have taken the pay rise for their last few years in the game.
I'd bet if you look at goals per game in competitive matches, Rooney wouldn't be top.
I'm not trying to say Rooney is a bad player, I just don't think he's ever done much for England.
He's still the record goal scorer for Man United though, and I think that is incredible when you think of the players they've had.
https://www.11v11.com/teams/england/tab/opposingTeams/opposition/Turkey/
Interestingly; six of Gary Lineker's goals came in one of those 8-0 wins and in a five 5-0 over Turkey back then...
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