Why Manchester United is a club in turmoil and how Wayne Rooney can help
By the looks of things, it’s Bye-Bye Rooney at Manchester United. It cannot be denied that Manchester United’s decline will be certain with the striker leaving the club. That being said, United are a great team who have an even
greater manager in Sir Alex Ferguson and the team is not built around Wayne Rooney, and although his departure will be a step back for the club, United have it in them to not let it affect them.
Wayne Rooney’s problems in recent months have been well documented and his fall out with the manager may be the final straw (the one that broke the camel’s back.)
David Gill can sugar-coat United’s finances but the truth of the matter is that actions speak louder than words and if the manager had 160 million to spend on new players, he would have spent a huge chunk of it already, because
by the looks of it, the quality at Old Trafford is on the decline and it is not being addressed.
There is no doubt about the incoherency of the United side. Given their age and form, Ryan Giggs and Paul Scholes will not be available week in week out, and in their absence, United simply do not have cover, or at least cover
of the same quality. Nani and Berbatov are amazing talents but being a team like United, you cannot rely on just two players to bring you a win week in week out in every competition.
There has been talk about promoting players from within the club, but one just can’t see this happening. Kiko Macheda has been given enough opportunities and there is no denying the fact that he is still short of the quality needed
at a club like Manchester United. Danny Welbeck was another hot prospect but he has been sent out on a season long loan, meaning that he too was not good enough. Other promising young prospects include Ritchie De Laet and Tom Cleverly, but those two have also
been sent on season long loans. So what quality from within the club can be promoted to the first-team?
Michael Owen is by no means a striker who can lead the United attack in big games every week; although his goal poaching instincts are still there, Ferguson clearly doesn’t see him as a starter and in fact he is just a bit part
player in the manager’s eyes.
Nemanja Vidic and Rio Ferdinand are still the best central pairing in defence, but only if they both are in the playing 11 at the same time, which surely has not been the case in recent months. Chris Smalling may well be nurtured
into a sublime talent but there are no guarantees and picking Johnny Evans over Gerard Pique was perhaps a great misjudgement on Sir Alex’s part.
Can a club like United rely on John O’Shea as a right back week in week out? Can Michael Carrick be trusted to compete with the likes of Iniesta and Xavi, Ozil and Khedira, Lampard and Essien in the Champions League? The questions
perhaps don’t even need answering.
Furthermore, there is Anderson, who at best blows hot and cold and cannot be relied upon. A fit again Hargreaves is what United need but when will that happen (if ever)?
The Brazilian twins have showed great potential but that’s all and the keeper has just turned 40 and surely he can’t go on for much longer.
Darren Gibson is surely not the new Scholes, because if he was, the wily old ginger-head would not have been consistently picked ahead of him every week.
Ferguson always talks about value for money in the transfer market, and if the results were good it may still be believed, but the fact of the matter is United are the United of the 90s and they need to spend if they are to maintain
their hegemony in the league, and by selling Rooney, they can just raise the right amount to spend in new (and high-quality) players.
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