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On this week’s pod Ed & Paul look back on United’s victory over Swansea at the Liberty Stadium. The Reds picked up David Moyes’ first Premier League win, scoring three ‘worldies’ on the way, although there were times when the result was more flattering than the performance. Two goals from Danny Welbeck puts the young England international in good stead for the season ahead. Can the much discussed player improve on his meagre goals tally from last season? We talk Wayne Rooney – the player made his comeback against Swansea, creating two goals but looking well below acceptable fitness. Meanwhile, United put in a low bid for Everton pair Marouanne Fellaini and Leighton Baines. The bid was rejected by the Merseyside outfit who claimed to be “insulted” by the “derisory” bid. Finally, we look ahead to Monday night’s game against Chelsea. Will Rooney play against his prospective employers?!
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Fergie would never trade him to Chelsea. Does the new chief in charge of transfers have a clue it seems he doesn’t
Consider which of the following is the better for Man United in the long run: 1. Chelsea come to town and we close down their midfield and sneak a victory courtesy of a RVP classic goal. Rooney stays at OT. Chesea get a striker of Lewondowski’s stature in his place. We decide not to get Fellani, because we can beta a team with a star-studded midfield if we play the right stifling kinbd of game (as we see v Chelsea). OR 2. Mourinho decides this is a match that he must not only win but win in decisive style to prove that he was the man we should have appointed as AF’s successor and that his midfield is incomparably better than ours (and thus we need to get a star midfielder rather than to hang on to Rooney) . This is exactly what happens: Chelsea overrun us completely in midfield, win big and it could have been bigger but for striker misses and de Gea’s goalkeeping. Mourinho trumps Spurs to get Willian and offers us Mata plus a couple of trinkets as swop for Rooney. We realize now hiow uncompetive we are in MF, that we have to get up to speed in MF fast and Mata may be the man to do it — the deal goes through and we also come back to Everton with a much higher bid for Fellaini that must stay “undisclosed”. This deal also goes through.
Shortly before we have to play Man City Carrick is injured. In option 1 we have nothing in midfield and they have Navas, Toure, Ferdinandinho, Nasri, Silva
in option 2 we have Fellaini, Cleverley, Mata, Jones, Anderson, Valencia to choose from: a set of players from whom a midfield quartet or quintet can be chose who can at least give them a battle.
Where with Rooney we have a player who has gone too far down a path to ever turn back and is always going to feel slighted/cheated/disaffected, with Mata we will have the best player in the EPL over a couple of seasons determined to show us and everybody else just how good he is.
We should not make our decisions based on the totally negative premise that by selling Rooney to Chelsea we are giving them the Premier League. By not swopping him for Mata if the offer comes, we may be handing the EPLnot to Chelsea, but to Man City.
Sometimes you have to sacrifice a bit where you are strong in order to cover where there could be fatal weakness.
Just saying, for what it’s worth.
Not a single player in! Now even the most charming/sexy/handsome Man United fan knows what it feels like to be too ugly to get a date.