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Chelsea: The Rationale for Rooney

So, Wayne Rooney eh? Is he coming or not? And more importantly, do we want him to?  Well that depends on who you’re talking to.

I had a conversation with my dad about him the other night and we’re both on the ‘yes’ side of the fence. My eldest son however, whilst inheriting the general football intelligence to support Chelsea from me, must have inherited the logic part from his father because he was on the ‘no’ side of this particular debate.  His argument against? “He’s a mercenary”, they’re all mercenaries son!

Van Persie moved from Arsenal to United. Did any of their supporters question his integrity? No, they simply counted up the goals at the end of their title-winning season. And that’s just one recent example, we have plenty of our own under our own noses. For years, Didier Drogba wanted in and out of Chelsea more times than your average MP visiting his local massage parlour and look at how that turned out. Frank Lampard and John Terry have both done their fair share of ‘negotiating’ to command stupid money to play for the club they ‘love’. Need I go on?

Rightly or wrongly, players will get as much as they can in their accounts these days – or at least their agents will – but that doesn’t equate to a lack of ambition or desire to play.  If anything, with Rooney, this ‘move’ is quite the opposite. He’s being talked about as a back-up man in the new manager’s plans, that wouldn’t sit comfortably with any striker in the top-flight, so certainly wouldn’t appeal to a player with Rooney’s hunger.

He’s clearly been unhappy at United for some time, first under SAF and now already with Moyes, so why drag it out? Unless RVP starts succumbing to the sort of niggling injuries that kept him out far too often at Arsenal, it’s quite apparent Rooney won’t get a look in at United anyway and for a player of his quality, that’s not just a waste, it’s unnecessary.

He might have shown inconsistencies in form (which player doesn’t?) but that, as I’ve already said, is against a backdrop of discontent. What we’d get from Rooney right now though, is a player desperate to prove himself (and prove Moyes wrong), a player with the sort of passion and hunger that’s innate not taught. And what Rooney would get from Chelsea, is a manager with those qualities and more, a manager who took a sulky workhorse like Didier Drogba and left us with the sort of prolific striker we’d give our right arm to have again.

Rooney’s versatility would be an absolute dream for Mourinho, his own eye for goal, along with the sort of defensive abilities that would afford more freedom for players like Mata, Hazard, Oscar and Schurrle, could translate into the sort of gift that would have us all thinking it’s our birthday.

Of course, we have to acknowledge Rooney hasn’t covered himself in glory of late but if any manager has the ability to bring the best out in his men, turning good into great, that manager is Jose Mourinho – and his mind is already made up with Rooney.

Try telling my eldest that though!

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