Also hilarious is Rooney in a deeper role attempting to be a play maker. When will people just face reality, he has strong parts to his game, passing and vision are not at them. He won't pick out lots of pretty through balls. What was it, 3-4 years ago people started saying Rooney could play CM, with the evidence being a few 40 yard cross field passes.... the kind anyone can make at all? It's the 5-25 yard defence splitting balls that make good number 10's, something Rooney is actually poor at.
Again, his only two good moments for England, intricate passing? nope, running full pace then whipping in a cross(he's actually got a very decent cross, more surprisingly his left foot crossing is great), and the goal he scored was running in at the far post.
He's a brute force kind of player, play him in a brute force role or not at all. The majority of players have weak parts to their game, ignoring them because you like the player is just pointless.
If anything you'd play RVP deep(of those two) but with Kagawa(for now) Mata, Junazaj(supposedly prefers to play centrally), and likely someone in the future, be it Vidal or whoever else, also trying to get into that space, it's nuts to suggest to play Rooney there. I'd again play Rooney wide as a pacey/powerful winger, before a central playmaker. Again the england goal and assist both came from playing like a winger, arriving late on the far post... classic wing play, powering behind the fullback and whipping in a great cross, classic wing play. When he played deeper/centrally, he effected the game but for the worse. SLowing attacks, missing passes, not making runs at the defence to make space for others, not being available for the pass in behind.
Rooney is a striker, could make a decent winger if he stayed there and actually played like a winger... he wasn't poor on the wing for England, he refused to stay on the wing. When there he was good, just make it 90 minutes instead of 90 seconds in a game and he'd do well.
