Wayne Rooney vs Andy Carroll

been building to this day since ilf formed tbrr

Rooney is 10 times the player Carroll is, easy, you challopian tube

sir, please respect the sanctity of the polling booth and leave if you can't control yourself after casting

what would a Rooney/Carroll thread be without judicious use of the elbow?

As if Arsenal would pay out good money for a player who is technically shit

this q kinda pertains to what i was thinking yesterday about d bent @ liverpool, namely the imo deluded kneejerk modern snobbery towards narrowly specialist players correctly utilised

is carroll a better ~player~ than rooney, unquestionably not, does he have the capacity to be a more effective weapon ehh it's definitely up for grabs

£35M KENNY WHAT WERE YOU THINKING

a player that can do one job well is fine if you've got a team/squad where he slots in, i think Bent at Liverpool was more a question of not slotting, tho you could also question whether Bent still offers value in terms of the limited role you'd want him to perform

and like i said yesterday, if Liverpool really wanted a Bent-like player then why not stick with Carroll?

bent is a quick lethal finisher with no touch

big ands is a slow battering ram with no touch

rooney is a fat but quickish nothing with no nothing

rtc otm tho, the disdain for a 'nothing but goals' player in a coach is to be feared and mistrusted. use your big brain to formulate a system where the other ten players at your disposal get the ball to such a gem imo, or fuck off elsewhere sharpish

eh whoa now i mean ideally in the modern squad game you'd not want to build your entire shebang on such a player (you can win the championship with a taarabt vehicle but after that...). but for instance the appeal of bent at liverpool is the versatility or variety to be specialised if u catch my drift. more intriguing imo to have one benty in the mix there than multiple iterations of the same nippy wing forward

invite dmac to assess extent of rooney being mismanaged throughout his career

well yeah a coach should have ideally more than one system at his disposal

'nothing but goals' player

That's Bent whereas Carroll's more of 'not even goals' player

£35M KENNY WHAT WERE YOU THINKING

― Ismael Klata, Thursday, 27 June 2013 12:16 (53 minutes ago) Bookmark

the answer was jarvis not downing all along :O

rooney vs arsenal that time for everton and for a bit during euro 2004 and for his utd european debut- well managed wunderkind

the rest of it- golem turned into a kebab vehicle. there was something there once for all to see, but even in his 30 goals seasons he was mainly a joyless tapper of ins, the kind of statistically impressive award winning career that proves that le tiss was 100% correct to stay at southampton

the playoff against turkey is my best memory of him. fearless, quick, creative. all gone now. all gone.

i think bent at liverpool would be clever enough, if the price isn't wild. like would you be thinking "oh fuck" if they're bringing him on with 20 mins to go? vs... amc/fw #33/35

Daren Bent as a "nothing but goals" player is a myth, the idea of a team with money in the bank and designs on european football wanting to spend proper dollar on the guy is bonkers. If he went for £6 mil or less I spose id get that.

Rooney obvs. approximately 15x better than Carroll will ever be, but his general demeanour, combined with the knowledge of what might have been, makes him correspondingly more depressing and hateful.

darren bent will outscore wayne rooney next season in the league

chump call

I maintain that Rooney could have easily lived up to the hype had he not fallen in love with the way that Scholes plays.

Voting for Carroll because of Ronan's avatar. It's the only right thing to do tbh.

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shit, who did I vote for?

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Pish

Greats struggle in their own time

imagine if Rooney had died directly after Euro 2004

Wouldve been better for all concerned really

The People's Prince

The white Diana.

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Rooney is a good athlete. He played very well in the Arsenal. This summer, there are a lot of clubs want to sign him.

welcome to I Love Football sir, please stay and chat

Thread needs Grant Holt for true challopian nirvana.

In his Charlton days Bent was really good at creating space for himself but by the time he'd turned up at Spurs most Premiership defenders had worked out what he was going to do and he wasn't an intelligent enough player to get around that. By the end of his time at WHL it was frustratingly obvious what he was going to do at all times, especially when he didn't have the ball (ie 99% of the time). Since then he's had one good season at Sunderland and several mediocre ones and idiot managers/chairmen still think he'll be the goose that laid the golden boot.

Still rate him about Carroll mind. Position of Rickie Lambert in these rankings to be assessed at a later date.

He kept villa up

You can plug a leak in a sinking ship, but you're always going to do some proper repair work once you're safely back in port.

merely a temporary blip, this

carroll will prob be in league two in 3/4 years, if he's not retired through injury.

darren bent will outscore wayne rooney next season in the league

― dj hollingsworth vs dj perry (darraghmac), 27 June 2013 19:03 (2 months ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

this has been sabotaged by shady figures imo

yeah the carroll injuries are becoming a thing, is it alcohol/lifestyle related or what

15m for him was the second ludicrous price he's been sold for.

yeah the carroll injuries are becoming a thing, is it alcohol/lifestyle related or what

his feet can't support the weight of his hair.

There'll always be at least one Premiership manager antediluvian enough to sign him.

I mean Kieron Dyer was still at a PL club until last year.

rooney's new magic johnson look suits him btw.

although he is white. he's very white.

nae dute aboo that

fuck yis

'never not be a wasteman' was first thought but this actually is better, kudos