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Is Wayne Rooney a world class footballer?

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Your question relies heavily on subjective analysis. If we were to seek some objective analysis, we might look at his goalscoring records at Manchester United and for England. For United, he has scored 194 goals in 391 games, putting him 4th on their all time list. read more

World Class in my opinion would mean challenging for a spot in the World XI, ie it would mean being the top 2-3 player for a specific position. Wayne Rooney, whilst being the talisman of a top 5 club in the world unfortunately doesn't figure as the top 3 player in either the CAM/SS role, the wide role or as a forward. read more

It is widely accepted that Wayne Rooney's ex-Manchester United teammate Paul Scholes is 'world class', without hesitation - I couldn't agree more - he is! Scholes was even one of the four players whom Sir Alex Ferguson named in his new book as being a genuine world class commodity, along with Giggs, Cantona and Cristiano Ronaldo, with the ruthless deletion of Wayne Rooney, himself. read more

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