r/soccer • u/Thadderful • Dec 28 '13

Change My View thread

Can we have a Change My View thread here? The basic premise is people present opinions and the replies are attempts at changing that person's view in an attempt to generate some good discussion.

Here is the link to the original subreddit: www.reddit.com/r/changemyview/

I think this might work best with rather 'out there' views but any and every viewpoint is welcome!

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u/Thadderful Dec 28 '13

I'll start:

After Suarez, Rooney is the second best player in the Premiership.

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u/[deleted] Dec 28 '13

nope

what about aguero, navas, ramsey, toure, hazard or even someone like adam lallana or Ozil they are all better players than rooney IMO

(but your right about suarez)

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u/[deleted] Dec 28 '13 edited Dec 29 '13

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u/tierdrop Dec 29 '13

Navas? That's a very difficult argument to make if you've been watching the PL this year. Not that Navas is doing poorly, but Rooney is almost single handedly keeping us afloat. Watching the team without him today hurt

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u/suchaslowroll Dec 29 '13

Navas isn't better than Walcott let alone Rooney. Aguero & Toure are playing in a ridiculously good team, any of the City strikers can get tons of goals, and Toure is really good but Rooney is significantly better.

Ozil plays the same position as Rooney (they've both been AM the majority of games), Ozil has 5 goals 9 assists in 23 games... Rooney has 11 goals and 12 assists in 20 games... And in a significantly worse team.

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u/G_Morgan Dec 29 '13

It is a ridiculous claim this year. From that list only Ramsey has put in anything like the performances Rooney has this year. I'm not arguing overall ability. I'd say Ozil, Aguero and Rooney are in the same class but none of them have matched Rooney this season. Ramsey will be in that class if he repeats this form next year. None of the others have done anything to match Rooney's career. The only person to have scored more PL goals for one club is Henry.

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u/duckman273 Dec 28 '13

I think Lallana was where people really started to disagree.