Rooney retires from international football


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I'd argue that relative to most people he did.
Gascoigne didn't. But Rooney is Man Utd and England's top scorer ever. He'd have taken that at 17!
I'm not really arguing with you. He was our best player for about 8 years.

But a lot of people thought he could have been right up there with Messi and Ronaldo if he'd worked at it as hard as they did.
But he chose not to.
 
One of our greatest ever players and literally our greatest ever footballer. I look forward to watching him succeed at his boyhood team for the next 3/4 years, and then see SAFC sign him.
 
Six tournament goals
Four of them in 2004.
He was excellent in that tournament. He's been a hinderance more than anything in the tournaments that have followed. The sheer volume of games played and the standard of opposition has been a massive part in him becoming all time scorer. Charlon played for England for 22 years, Rooney for 13 and yet Rooney has played more games.
 
His full debut against Turkey he looked like he would go on and be the best in the world. He was absolutely unplayable that night the Turks didnt know what to do when he got on the ball.
Im still gutted that he got injured at Euro 2004 im sure we would have won it if hed stayed fit he was on fire then.
Lineker and Charlton were the better international players imo they delivered consistently at tournaments where it counts Rooney didnt.
 
One of our greatest ever players and literally our greatest ever footballer. I look forward to watching him succeed at his boyhood team for the next 3/4 years, and then see SAFC sign him.

You wouldn't have thought so given the treatment he gets from fans everywhere. He definitely peaked earlier than you'd expect.
 
Amazing player and ultimate team player. Was messed around by too many managers towards the end for club and country.
 
scored his goals in qualifiers and not on the big stage. Hes been as committed as any England player but falls well short of any kind of greatness label.
Scored some belters in the league mind.
 
Can he not retire just before the tournament itself? Does ok till then and then does absolutely sweet fuck all bar blame the fans for being shit.

Scholes had bad asthma and being in hot summer tournaments was hard for me. And he kept being played on the left wing, which was f***ing stupid.

Outted! Hello Scholesy!!!!!
 
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I think he's more than fulfilled his potential like.

Both England and Man Uniteds all time top scorer and second in the PL's all time top scorer list.

Great player and smart move IMO.
 
undoubtedly a very good player, but always looked like everything was a chore. Can't ever remember him looking like he enjoyed playing and possibly never worked hard to achieve his absolute full potential imo.
 
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