£300,000k-a-week man Wayne Rooney is feeling the agonizing atmosphere at Manchester United. The club’s Old Trafford stadium has turned into a theatre of nightmares since the departure of Sir Alex Ferguson and the appointment of David Moyes last summer.
In the English Premier League only, six teams have gone there to toy with the Red Devils, the most recent one being 3-0 victors Manchester City. Tuesday’s Manchester Derby saw the hosts concede their earliest EPL goal ever on home soil as Edin Dzeko scored after 44 seconds.
Man United failed to reply as the Bosnia-Herzegovina striker clinched a brace before African superstar Yaya Toure completed the Premier League champions’ 90 minutes of torture. Rooney sounded frustrated when he declared in a post-match interview:
“We can’t lose six homes games in a season and we have to put that right and make this a place teams fear again.”
How long will it take for David Moyes to lift up the spirits of his men and pick up much better results?
Here is what the most trolled manager of the moment had to say:
“I thought it would be a tough year for us, no doubt about that, but I hoped we would be much more competitive and closer to the top of the league than we are at the present time.
“Everyone knows this is going to be a job which is going to take a little bit of time to get the way we would like it but that is the job and I recognise that.
He added:
“It is under way in its own way. You don’t just suddenly change things around. A lot of other clubs have had to change and they have had to do rebuilding jobs and look at the time it has taken them to do that and get to a level of competing. We hope it won’t take us as long as some of those clubs have taken.
“I think we have got a period of time where we are going to have to make sure we get to that level which we are not at just now.”
