Would you welcome Rooney as a member of the coaching staff

Originally Posted by Harri Jaffa

Exactly. Possibly. You don't know, I don't know. My hunch is he wouldn't be as good a coach as he is a player but that's just me.

Mourihno was no great shakes as a player fwiw

Originally Posted by Bunker Buster

Managers are different, I'd suggest you go and look at the role of a football coach pal...

That's a good point. Do we know any former top level players who went on to be good coaches? Managers maybe, but coaches?

So a no for me. As if Rooney could be arsed.

Originally Posted by believe

Apparently we don't want to become Liverpool

Great players do it automatically become great coaches .

Just ask Bobby Carlton .

Can't see why any top player gets a job as a coach based on his playing record.

Giving slippy a job was mawkish sentimentality .

Originally Posted by Bunker Buster

Managers are different, I'd suggest you go and look at the role of a football coach pal...

How many top players become great coaches?

Bloody hell. I personally don't think he's be as good a coach as he was a player. That's hardly revolutionary or slating Rooney as a player in any way at all

Originally Posted by Harri Jaffa

How many top players become great coaches?

Bloody hell. I personally don't think he's be as good a coach as he was a player. That's hardly revolutionary or slating Rooney as a player in any way at all

This is probably why "whip" thinks Zlatan would make a great coach.

Originally Posted by shenwen

That's a good point. Do we know any former top level players who went on to be good coaches? Managers maybe, but coaches?

Coaching is a science which is coupled with the ability to 'teach' and 'motivate'. Quite hard for players to coach as knowledge is limited to their own circumstances and clouded by subjectivity.

Might be the sort of bloke who could be a mentor as youngsters will look up to him.

If SSG can coach players....

Can't be any worse than Wee Jimmy and Phil Neville...See what happens when he retires.

Doubt Mourinho would hire him though. Thought he always hires coaches he knows well and trusts or something

Originally Posted by redhegemony

Coaching is a science which is coupled with the ability to 'teach' and 'motivate'. Quite hard for players to coach as knowledge is limited to their own circumstances and clouded by subjectivity.

Might be the sort of bloke who could be a mentor as youngsters will look up to him.

Originally Posted by Harri Jaffa

How many top players become great coaches?

Bloody hell. I personally don't think he's be as good a coach as he was a player. That's hardly revolutionary or slating Rooney as a player in any way at all

Hang on, why are you changing your argument?

You said because he wasn't a worldy at "any particular thing" he wouldn't be a good coach?

You're AOTS Harold

No one knows if Rooney would make a good coach or not but if that's the road he wants to go down in the future why wouldn't you want him to try at United?

Originally Posted by Ethers

Hang on, why are you changing your argument?

You said because he wasn't a worldy at "any particular thing" he wouldn't be a good coach?

You're AOTS Harold

No I'm not

If you were only allowed to choose players as coaches (which you aren't). Then if you were choosing a finishing coach you would choose rvn, if you were choosing a midfield coach you would choose scholes.

As it is it takes more than just being a great player to be a great coach

I'm sure people thought Fergie and Mourinho wouldn't make great coaches/managers.

There's no point in discussing it really. Only one way to find out. Can't believe I'm going to say this but, the future? God only knows

Would I welcome him? Well, he's not going to be our manager anytime soon so I'd neither welcome him nor not welcome him....More of a "Oh right" type of reaction

Originally Posted by VodkaAndCoke

No one knows if Rooney would make a good coach or not but if that's the road he wants to go down in the future why wouldn't you want him to try at United?

Because he's Scouse, he hasn't got the same body as an ex united player, Fergie lied about a transfer request and agenda

Originally Posted by Bunker Buster

Because he's Scouse, he hasn't got the same body as an ex united player, Fergie lied about a transfer request and agenda

the rooney love-in knows no bounds

are there no depths to which the fanboys will not sink

Originally Posted by Harri Jaffa

No I'm not

If you were only allowed to choose players as coaches (which you aren't). Then if you were choosing a finishing coach you would choose rvn, if you were choosing a midfield coach you would choose scholes.

As it is it takes more than just being a great player to be a great coach

There can be more than one "finishing coach" in the whole world though?

Bit weird to be pulling the greatest goalscorer in our history up on his finishing too

When he's on form, he's always been deadly.

Originally Posted by Ethers

There can be more than one "finishing coach" in the whole world though?

Bit weird to be pulling the greatest goalscorer in our history up on his finishing too

When he's on form, he's always been deadly.

Originally Posted by Tumescent Throb

the rooney love-in knows no bounds

are there no depths to which the fanboys will not sink

Then two years ago Rooney was in and out of the United team before Ferguson’s retirement and Chelsea wanted to sign him. “I went in to see him (Ferguson) and just said ‘if you are not going to play me then it might be better for me to move on’,” Rooney explains in the film...

“Then, all of a sudden, it was all over the press that I had put a transfer request in which I never did. I don’t know what happened, why that came out that way.”

Sooooo

Looks like Fergie or the club spun it that way....surely Fergie would of mentioned it in his book or rebutted this quote from Rooney ?

No transfer request was submitted...

Amazing the amount of people caught up in RI lies..

Didn't Fergie just say that Rooney had "asked away" though? Sounds a bit like asking away tbh.