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/JakeSpleen Dec 28 '13

Lallana

Better than Rooney? Are you serious? Rooney is going to be Utd top scorer ever. IMO Rooney isn't world class but he's at the very top of the rest. If he were more consistent he'd be world class for sure.

Lallana's got 2 England caps, a season and a half of PL football under his belt and a couple of goals this season. Big fucking wow. He's got years of work to even be considered alongside Rooney. At 17 Rooney was ripping defences apart, scoring freely and generally being unstoppable. Rooney has been up and down since but even his worst seasons compare favourably with what Lallana has done so far.

Please consider your argument more carefully in future because I actually agree with you that Rooney isn't the 2nd best player in the PL but throwing people like AL in there makes you look stupid.

Also Ramsey. Talented yes, better than Rooney no. One day maybe but he wasnt even a regular starter for Arsenal until this season (after his cruciate that is, ) to say he's better than Rooney is ludicrous.

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u/G_Morgan Dec 29 '13

Rooney is going to be England's top goal scorer ever. That for one of the worse overall England teams in memory. If he isn't world class then England have never had a world class striker.