[SkySports] "Manchester United have to be a top-one team not a top-three team" Derby coach Wayne Rooney responds to Cristiano Ronaldo's claims that it is not acceptable for Manchester United to be aiming for anything less than a top-three finish.
[SkySports] "Manchester United have to be a top-one team not a top-three team" Derby coach Wayne Rooney responds to Cristiano Ronaldo's claims that it is not acceptable for Manchester United to be aiming for anything less than a top-three finish.
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Then get rid of the rot at the top, middle, and bottom. You can't keep saying 'we need to be better.' But the only people that can approve and speed those changes are part of the rot.
It's amazing how United have been in almost a decade of decline at this point, and yet all their fans, pundits and former players talk like they deserve to be winning titles.
The structural changes made the last two seasons seem to have been completely ignored and Woodward went back to Football Disneyland by signing Ronaldo. Ronaldo's mentality is great and he's still incredibly good even at 36 but it's coming at the expense of the team.
I think Rooney has got it wrong and Ronaldo was talking about top 3 this season. There's no fucking way we're winning the league this season... Unless.
Unless what ?!? Some aliens land in England and abduct some of premier league (except nan United ) players ?!? Is it even mathematically possible for man United to catchup
He's right in the sense that the mentality is lacking. It stems from the Glazers not being interested in anything other than monetary success, but has trickled down to mismanagement at a club level. The recruitment and scouting itself has been such a big issue the past decade, despite the name and allure.
Rooney has got it wrong almost as much as Ronaldo, both top 3 and top 1 is unrealistic for United, unless the other teams somehow get kidnapped or sick with diarrhea before every game. But the fact is the club of it's size has to aim for the n1 spot every single time, same as Barcelona, Real Madrid, Liverpool, Bayern etc.
All these comments are so empty. The constant acknowledgement that current performance isn't good enough, with no impetus on how the club actually needs to improve (starting with the owners/board and general structure).
There's a lot of years post-Ronaldo, that Rooney WAS United. Sir Alex fielded some pretty trash teams (talent-wise) that challenged for or win the title.
These stupid dick measuring contests on how good united have to be is tiring. You have a whole generation that only know of united as being a meme team. United don't have to be anywhere in the league, they are where they deserve to be.
Tbf for a team that is arguably in the top 5 (if not higher) for most fans in the world and makes a ton of money and spends a ton of money on players. Considering the incompetence at every level of the club we deserve to be out of European competitions tbh. It’s more an expectation based on history, size, and money spent. Similar to how everyone expects a team like Barca to be one of the best. Expect for a longer period of time.
It's fair to say that on average you should be top 3 as United. The thing is you should also say that as Chelsea, City and Liverpool and that means one club is going to finish below their expected average.
On one hand, yes the historic dominance of a team doesn’t mean anything for the current landscape so Man Utd shouldn’t be expected to be a top 3 club. On the other hand, when a club has hundreds of millions of dollars to splash on big players, they are supposed to win stuff.
should've stayed with Mourinho, they'd be in a much better place by now imo... the 2 seasons of Mourinho have been much more fruitful than 3+1 seasons of Ole and Ralf
Diagnosing problems tends to be the easy part. Fixing them is where the challenge lies, and Mourinho clearly can’t do that with the new generation of players who don’t respond to his style of management.
Lol. The revisionism is fucking insane. If we stayed with Mourinho --- Alderweireld would be the Maguire type signing and Perisic would be idk what. God knows what would have happened to Rashford -- probably ended up like welback by now if Mourinho had his way.
Mourinho got himself fired, granted the board didnt help and arguably they were the reason why Mourinho said “fuck it, imma talk shit till im sacked” he has a very unprofessional approach, stopped giving a fuck and he got sacked
I don't think you got what he was trying to say. ManUtd needs to be aiming for those achievements from the very top down and they need to hire the people who can make such a thing reality again
Shut up. he is talking about working and earning it. What do you know about winner mentality anyway? Loser club with 3 decades of being around top 4 and some times not even making it. You used to be current Arsenal till no longer than a9 years ago
I find all of this pretty arrogant and entitled to be honest. United don't "have" to be anything - they are where they are because that's how good they are at this present moment. They're not good enough to be a top 3 team, and that's the reality.
What he is saying is not realistic, other english top clubs have had major evolutions over the year where united has been sitting still. To say now that they should be a top one team is too easy
SMH head at this mental midget. Manchester United have to be a top 0.333 team (repeating, ofc) and win the septuple on mars, earth and maybe place 5th on one of jupiter's moons.
Best player to have ever played for Manchester United. Unbelievable passion, dedication, hard work ethic and win at all cost mentality and attitude. He could create and score beautiful goals. Wayne Rooney is an absolute legend of MUFC. Top Goalscorer for United of all time is just the cherry in top of a an astonishing United career. He won everything at united. Legend.
All the shit the red mancs gave liverpool when ex scouse players said things like this, now the boot is on the other foot and they're all rolling out the 'living in the past wagon' ... how the turntables!
I get the notion of elite winning mentality, but you can't literally always win - nothing is guaranteed, if there is at least 2 contenders no one is guaranteed a title. Things are especially different now in the PL.
Waye Rooney is a legend who retired at 35. He last played top flight 4 years ago. Ronaldo is about to turn 37 and is still 4th top scorer in the current Premier league, despite playing for a team who are 7th. They are both greats, but no one can question CR7s drive and determination.
Pls don’t make Rooney manager. I wasn’t old enough to watch Ole so I didn’t have a strong emotional connection to him. I would hate to have to say Rooney out.
we will be back, 8 years out of the top and we still have a bigger following and revenue than almost any other club and still live rent free in every rivals head.
Even with a -21 points deduction he’s 11 points away from safety with half the season left to play. Based on the form of Derby vs those above them it’s not crazy to think they could even stay up. They’ve lost half as many games as the 5 teams above them and without the points deduction they’d be 10 points in the clear. If they manage to get a decent loan or two and continue this form then who knows.
Is he seriously a good manager or is this just a joke? I checked derby countys record and they are last, although in their four last games, they won 3 and tied 1.
I think they had a lot of points deducted for some shit they did. Also they have no money. I don't know much about the problems they faced tho. These are just the things I came across.
Don't forget that they got hit with a 21 point deduction. They were at -3 points in September. He started the season with a bad hand. Being at 11 points after all that is pretty good.
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Rooney starting his pitch for the job
Wayne Rooney doesn't need to pitch himself for the job. Any measure of meagre success and it's essentially his when he wants it.
Yeah, Ronaldo started his pitch in latest Sky interview. Rooney said, I gotta do one better.
Wayne Rooney will become the first English coach to win the Premier League since 1992
Rooney looks like a good manager at derby so far. Maybe he'll be man u manager in a couple years.
Maybe after he manages a PL/top flight team and succeeds.
He needs to prove himself in Norway first
Derby County is at the bottom of the table, how tf is that good 🤔🤔
Then get rid of the rot at the top, middle, and bottom. You can't keep saying 'we need to be better.' But the only people that can approve and speed those changes are part of the rot.
Don't give them ideas. Sincerely, A Liverpool fan
Nah mate it’s just ‘We go again’
"Man Utd need to be revolutionised. But we're only going to allow the manager to make cosmetic changes"
Glazers first. Nothing will get better with them in charge.
It's amazing how United have been in almost a decade of decline at this point, and yet all their fans, pundits and former players talk like they deserve to be winning titles.
The structural changes made the last two seasons seem to have been completely ignored and Woodward went back to Football Disneyland by signing Ronaldo. Ronaldo's mentality is great and he's still incredibly good even at 36 but it's coming at the expense of the team.
Thought you were talking about his hair at first
How good has Rooney been as a coach till now?
I would argue that he has done the best job out of all of that generation of ex-England players including Gerrard.
He's literally making the impossible seem possible atm.
I think Rooney has got it wrong and Ronaldo was talking about top 3 this season. There's no fucking way we're winning the league this season... Unless.
Unless what ?!? Some aliens land in England and abduct some of premier league (except nan United ) players ?!? Is it even mathematically possible for man United to catchup
He's right in the sense that the mentality is lacking. It stems from the Glazers not being interested in anything other than monetary success, but has trickled down to mismanagement at a club level. The recruitment and scouting itself has been such a big issue the past decade, despite the name and allure.
Unless you add the word "champions" ahead of league???
Rooney has got it wrong almost as much as Ronaldo, both top 3 and top 1 is unrealistic for United, unless the other teams somehow get kidnapped or sick with diarrhea before every game. But the fact is the club of it's size has to aim for the n1 spot every single time, same as Barcelona, Real Madrid, Liverpool, Bayern etc.
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I think its actually impossible though. Even if you win the rest of your games lol
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All these comments are so empty. The constant acknowledgement that current performance isn't good enough, with no impetus on how the club actually needs to improve (starting with the owners/board and general structure).
Feels like that is how many former United legends talk about the current situation at the club.
United should never lose a game again.
tbf Ronaldo did say he "knows" what they need to do but that an interview is not the platform to share it in.
And again: good luck with that!
Easy for Rooney to say this cos he was playing in a top United team and Cristiano knows the reality
There's a lot of years post-Ronaldo, that Rooney WAS United. Sir Alex fielded some pretty trash teams (talent-wise) that challenged for or win the title.
Can't believe so many people are making me defend Rooney... Twats the lot of you.
If he somehow keeps Derby up this season, he at the very least atleast deserves a mid table side in the Premier league.
He he nice one that must have been hard to write...
Wayne Rooney as a manager will never not be weird to me
These stupid dick measuring contests on how good united have to be is tiring. You have a whole generation that only know of united as being a meme team. United don't have to be anywhere in the league, they are where they deserve to be.
They're becoming what they used to mock Liverpool for
Tbf for a team that is arguably in the top 5 (if not higher) for most fans in the world and makes a ton of money and spends a ton of money on players. Considering the incompetence at every level of the club we deserve to be out of European competitions tbh. It’s more an expectation based on history, size, and money spent. Similar to how everyone expects a team like Barca to be one of the best. Expect for a longer period of time.
Amen. You're not entitled to finishing higher because you used to be good at it.
It's fair to say that on average you should be top 3 as United. The thing is you should also say that as Chelsea, City and Liverpool and that means one club is going to finish below their expected average.
On one hand, yes the historic dominance of a team doesn’t mean anything for the current landscape so Man Utd shouldn’t be expected to be a top 3 club. On the other hand, when a club has hundreds of millions of dollars to splash on big players, they are supposed to win stuff.
Ronaldo with the top 3 statement was already ridiculous enough lol
With Man City and Pep as good as they are, anyone will have to wait for them to drop to be competing regularly for top spot
Sad but true.
that is exactly the mentality that sets you up for failure
I love how they still are living in the past expecting to win things. You like history now eh?
Totally disconnected from reality
You kiddin ? Manchester United have to be European champion, not a top one team!
should've stayed with Mourinho, they'd be in a much better place by now imo... the 2 seasons of Mourinho have been much more fruitful than 3+1 seasons of Ole and Ralf
Funniest part about it all is that he was completely right about both Martial and Pogba. Their lack of work-ethic is pathetic stuff.
Diagnosing problems tends to be the easy part. Fixing them is where the challenge lies, and Mourinho clearly can’t do that with the new generation of players who don’t respond to his style of management.
you clearly didn't watch football back then
He also said that the next manager will have an easier job because of the work he's putting now... Make of that what you will
I don't think it would have lasted much longer. He dragged them screaming and lost the dressing room. He wasn't THE problem but he was A problem.
Lol. The revisionism is fucking insane. If we stayed with Mourinho --- Alderweireld would be the Maguire type signing and Perisic would be idk what. God knows what would have happened to Rashford -- probably ended up like welback by now if Mourinho had his way.
When has Mourinho ever stayed with a club long term though?
Mourinho got himself fired, granted the board didnt help and arguably they were the reason why Mourinho said “fuck it, imma talk shit till im sacked” he has a very unprofessional approach, stopped giving a fuck and he got sacked
Players mentality is so low, their performances is declining every week.
Pls no Rooney at the wheel
Man, it's like a cheap and lazy punditry from Rooney here. Ignored the whole context of Ronaldo's interview to slag him off cheaply.
Proper brexit punditry
More like lazy reading comprehension from you, he's not slagging Ronaldo off in the slightest.
tbh he's derby's manager, ask questions about derby
Rooney looks a drunk at the bar
Hope so... but Man Utd is not same anymore.... LOL...
Confirmed Rooney has an account on
Delusional. That moment has passed. There are other teams with top resources now, and Man U will never dominate in the same way again.
I don't think you got what he was trying to say. ManUtd needs to be aiming for those achievements from the very top down and they need to hire the people who can make such a thing reality again
Big old clubs feel they deserve to be at the top. Nothing is further from the truth. Earn it.
once Klopp leaves your team goes back to mediocrity 😂
Shut up. he is talking about working and earning it. What do you know about winner mentality anyway? Loser club with 3 decades of being around top 4 and some times not even making it. You used to be current Arsenal till no longer than a9 years ago
Both quotes seem a bit silly. United's goal should be fourth place. Of course you'd want to aim higher but it's not realistic.
You aim for 1st place but set your goal for 4th place what? So what are you even aiming at?
Waiting for cantona to say united should be in their own league, rest aren't good enough
I find all of this pretty arrogant and entitled to be honest. United don't "have" to be anything - they are where they are because that's how good they are at this present moment. They're not good enough to be a top 3 team, and that's the reality.
They’re definitely not good enough to kick out Chelsea Liverpool or city out of top 3
Not anymore. Not even top 4.
Deluded. Times are changing.
Rooney is a fucking idiot everyone knows what Ronaldo meant except this fucking clown
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This fat f*ck should focus on Derby who are at bottom of the table
It's hilarious how out of touch these old United players are.
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Why for Ronaldo? They have to be top one for their fans and the history of the club. No individual player is above the club.
Who cares about Ronaldo? He's just a bloke. Manchester United is a 120 year old football club. He works for them, not the other way around.
Idk why people think united are trying to perform to please ronaldo
Been a good decade now so hardly a tough time "at the minute".
The expectations are so high they could never reach up to them anyways.
What he is saying is not realistic, other english top clubs have had major evolutions over the year where united has been sitting still. To say now that they should be a top one team is too easy
They cant even qualify for CL at this rate. Maybe get a coherent squad & tactics before talking about goals
Man Utd won’t compete as long as debt collectors JP Morgan are in charge (in the form of the percentage-taking Glazers)
United's problem isn't their spending, for fuck's sake.
Easy to say when you're not at the club and have to keep expectations realistic.
Thanks captain obvious
All clubs are going threw cycles. Some clubs only peak once or twice in their existance. Having a natural right is complete bs..
I hated it when my kid went threw its rebel phase and through things at me and my dog
I fucking love Wayne Rooney with everything I have
Sky sports trying to create beef between rooney and ronny
Yeah we'll, unless United get sold to a nation state, there's only one top team in the land. And their names rhymes with shitty.
Love this guy. He is not a cry baby and what is the right thing to say.
Its funny bc neither statement changes anything IRL
SMH head at this mental midget. Manchester United have to be a top 0.333 team (repeating, ofc) and win the septuple on mars, earth and maybe place 5th on one of jupiter's moons.
Rooney is a mad cunt. Hope he will keep derby up. Would be quite the feat if he gets it done.
Best player to have ever played for Manchester United. Unbelievable passion, dedication, hard work ethic and win at all cost mentality and attitude. He could create and score beautiful goals. Wayne Rooney is an absolute legend of MUFC. Top Goalscorer for United of all time is just the cherry in top of a an astonishing United career. He won everything at united. Legend.
Well tbf, he is right, their squad on paper is more tham capable. But there seems to be a fundamental issue within the locker room.
Cris will respond like he did Cassano. "Well Rooney, last time I checked my 825 goals and 249 pedicures were more than your..."
I remember the Nike commercial..
All the shit the red mancs gave liverpool when ex scouse players said things like this, now the boot is on the other foot and they're all rolling out the 'living in the past wagon' ... how the turntables!
No Glazer ever saw this comment
Hope Rangnick is taking notes
Man u won't get near a top 3 spot this year
There comes a time when people finally realize an organization isn't what it used to be.
I get the notion of elite winning mentality, but you can't literally always win - nothing is guaranteed, if there is at least 2 contenders no one is guaranteed a title. Things are especially different now in the PL.
Waye Rooney is a legend who retired at 35. He last played top flight 4 years ago. Ronaldo is about to turn 37 and is still 4th top scorer in the current Premier league, despite playing for a team who are 7th. They are both greats, but no one can question CR7s drive and determination.
My captain!
Lol, Man U sucks. There time has come and gone.
Pls don’t make Rooney manager. I wasn’t old enough to watch Ole so I didn’t have a strong emotional connection to him. I would hate to have to say Rooney out.
Maybe leave the PL and start a league with only Man U? Works 100% of the time
we will be back, 8 years out of the top and we still have a bigger following and revenue than almost any other club and still live rent free in every rivals head.
Isnt it worrying that you have been saying this exact same statement for 8 years now?
Nah, no one's worried about United. The club and the players are a laughing stock, Ronaldo is just a meme now
This is what I used to say in the early 90’s.
says the guy who's getting relegated
Even with a -21 points deduction he’s 11 points away from safety with half the season left to play. Based on the form of Derby vs those above them it’s not crazy to think they could even stay up. They’ve lost half as many games as the 5 teams above them and without the points deduction they’d be 10 points in the clear. If they manage to get a decent loan or two and continue this form then who knows.
Maybe you don't talk about shit you know nothing about.
Is he seriously a good manager or is this just a joke? I checked derby countys record and they are last, although in their four last games, they won 3 and tied 1.
It's not a joke, there's a ton of context you're missing. Derby are bankrupt and were deducted 21 points. So they started on -21.
I think they had a lot of points deducted for some shit they did. Also they have no money. I don't know much about the problems they faced tho. These are just the things I came across.
Don't forget that they got hit with a 21 point deduction. They were at -3 points in September. He started the season with a bad hand. Being at 11 points after all that is pretty good.
Didn’t strike you as weird that they’ve only got 11 points with 7 wins and 11 draws?
They started with -21 points 🙄
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