Why Wayne in White Would Be A Win Win Win

Although Wayne Rooney's Shrek-like head is reportedly being turned by the billions being offered by Manchester City, the United man should instead take heed of José Mourinho's advise to give him a call. If the striker does do a runner from Old Trafford, even as soon as this winter, then it should be to somewhere significantly more enticing than Eastlands. And that's Real Madrid...

The Win For Wayne Rooney
If the average, cheese-brained, money-obsessed English footballer paid as much attention to becoming a better player as to the size of their bank balance, Ipod headphones and the press attaché's tits then a heck of a lot more would have headed to the Spanish league in recent years than the brave few that have manfully taken the plunge in la Primera.

Rooney Revisionism Is Sadly Predictable

'He's a one-season wonder...he won't even get in the Manchester City team....Carlos Tevez was always the better player...Nani's the better player now...he's not as good as he thinks he is...his first touch has always been a liability...'

These are all views repeatedly expressed to Football365 via e-mail or story comments by Manchester United fans in the days since Sunday's first suggestions that all was not well between Wayne Rooney and the club he professed to love. It's as ridiculous as it is predictable and we've seen this reaction time and time again from fans of the Premier League's biggest clubs. It's become a standing joke that as soon as a footballer sees greener grass (or a better-looking cow) elsewhere, they are automatically rubbish in the eyes of the spurned supporters they leave behind.

The same fans who sang 'Fergie, Fergie, sign him up' were suddenly deriding Tevez as a poor man's Rooney, Arsenal supporters dismissed both Thierry Henry and Patrick Vieira as busted flushes when they fled north London, Javier Mascherano became a clogger as soon as he became a rat leaving Liverpool's sinking ship and Villa fans were describing Gareth Barry as 'overrated' from the moment it became clear he was eyeing riches and trophies elsewhere. They, at least, may have had a point.