Rooney is an example of a club holding on to a player for too long when he wants a new challenge. They should have let him go ages ago but instead they've kept him, fed him until he's fat and now looks like a sloppy, slothful mess! He's done it all at Manure. Domestic cups, the league, Champs League....time for him to move on. If he doesn't respond to that vicious bastard, Van Gaal, then nothing will motivate him staying at that club. He still has talent and he's young enough to recover.

As for the Giroud comparisons... Form and talent. I highly doubt Giroud will be going all beast mode for us this season. It's just not within his capacity to lead the line in that way. It's just not in his makeup to be a complete menace and influential. We're always going to be looking at Ozil, Sanchez, Cazorla, Ramsey or Walcott. One of them goes out injured and we'd lose something vital. The only problem with Giroud going out injured is that we only have Sanogo as an alternative.