Gone
are the days when players not even vowed to spend their career but also their
lives for the club they loved and played for. Nowadays, gears have changed and
with the exception of players like Gerrard, Zanetti and some more, players like
Rooney have overshadowed the game of the working class with outrageous wages, which
simply makes anyone think “Is this still the working class Game” ?
Is this the end of
Rooney saga?
Certainly
yes, for the time being, maybe till summer 2015 this saga has taken a dead turn,
but over the course of next few seasons if the situation of Manchester United
doesn’t change in the league table, this saga can raise its head once again.
Torres signed
contract for Liverpool a year before his move to Chelsea which proves the fact
that Contract doesn’t mean much nowadays.
People
like me who have followed the case of Cristiano Ronaldo and Fernando Torres
knows that contract is the last binding factor these players could care for, if
they were guaranteed to play for a bigger level at a bigger club, but for that
to happen an excuse is needed and what better than an absence in Champions League.
Torres
signed a contract year before his move to Chelsea but when he decided to leave,
no one could stop him which proves the fact that Contract doesn’t mean much
nowadays.
Is Moyes Safe?
Certainly
NOT. If you believe certain rumors gathering pace around the internet, you may
believe that Moyes’ last chance is the qualification of Champions League which
looks more than unlikely at the moment. On the other hand, one may think that
the board who has given Rooney 300k a year in the mid of season potentially
aware of the fact that Champions league football is a distant dream now. So one
way or the other, mid of next season will either show us the Manchester United, or it could may well make
Moyes see the departure door.
Any new signing
at the Old Trafford may demand an outrageous money for his ratification because
he would know that the club have the money as well as the heart to spend it
David Moyes may have already ignited the fire whose flashes could make himself feel
the heat. With 300k a week to Rooney, Any new signing at the Old Trafford may
demand an outrageous money for his ratification. Because they know that the
club who can pay 28 million on Fellaini could certainly fulfil their dreams as
well, so maybe this cat and dog fight been started by Moyes could backfire, if
not for him, than certainly to the club.
Sir Alex, a distant memory
for United:
It
would ring bells amongst the United faithful but it is a cruel reality that
with the signature of Rooney, David Moyes has closed yet another chapter of Sir
Alex values at the Theater of dreams. The most expensive signing of Sir Alex came in the shape of Dimitar Berbatov, when
the Bulgarian was signed for a record fee of 30million pounds. Although that
signing initially raised eyebrows, but Berbatov won the golden boot with
United, underlining the long sightedness of Sir Alex.
On
the contrary, it took Moyes just 6 months to break that barrier, with Juan Mata
becoming the most expensive United signing of all times, and that too in the
January period which his predecessor avoided so many times. So that fact has
become more than clear, that fans who demand Sir Alex style of play once again
are too naïve to understand, that finally, after more than 25 years, Times have
changed at the Old Trafford.
English football
changing gears:
From
the last few seasons in Europe, it was speculated that English sides aren’t
playing better as compared to the other European Champions, and much focus was
on the money barrier when the sides like Liverpool and Arsenal showed their
weakness in the transfer market on the hot prospects round Europe.
Now
it seems that the English managers have played heed to this concept and started
to think out of the bag. This season could may well prove to be the turning
point in the English football era. For the last 10 years, English clubs have
been feeding to the Spanish giants Madrid and Barcelona. Now though, it seems
that the opposite cycle have started.
Daniel Levy
brilliant marketing policies enabled his side to gather 100 million for a Welsh
player which is unheard of not only in the Welsh culture but also all across the
globe. It proves that English clubs have learned it the hard way that, in order
to make the best of their interests, they would not simply let go of players,
they feel that are best suited for them.
The
signature of Ozil was the turning point for this to happen. After that
Liverpool stepped forward and closed the door of Suarez move to Madrid with a
mega money contract offer, if not for long than certainly for the time being.
Rooney’s saga is the latest addition to this catalogue, it seems that the other
clubs will now certainly found it hard to extract the players from the English
giants.
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