Wayne Rooney - Sheer heart , desire , precision , hard work and tenacity .
He has been there when we weren't pulling it off , and times when he showed a moment of spark or responsibility , the entire team came back alive .
He may not be scoring plenty of goals . But he has seen all the goals and has atleast contributed more than half of em we scored all season *( yes he has only 16 or so assists , yet the contribution need not be a direct one
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To me , if rooney was missing , we could have been completely misfiring . We couldn't have had such a run from february . To take the 5 points deficit to a 8 points lead .
While ronaldo was terrorising the record books and posing in the camera , it was rooney's tiring hard work behind all these limelight which was very unselfish and beautiful to watch , like royston maurice keane .
The man has had an impact in all the games we have played and when he doesn't perform / not play , we don't play well .
Remember , he was asked to give up on his free role and was asked to play upfront with tevez playing Rooney the number 8 used to play . Yet rooney was magnificent whenever he was asked to play upfront , yeah maybe he didn't score much . But the games against arsenal FA Cup . HE took gallas and toure in his pockets and he owned carragher in the pool game .
He has played as a left winger , played as a right winger , and has been nothing short of Decent .
Besides , rooney has matured a lot this season . If Rio wasn't showing that maturiy himself , i wouldn't have been surprised if rooney was going to wear the arm band !
If i have to pick two more .
I would pick evra and tevez in that order . Evra peach of a season ! Best left back by a country mile , While tevez took us to a new level in playing like a maniac when it mattered and made the difference , some of the beautiful games we had like one against villa or the one against castle , or the one against everton . It was all tevez who made the difference . Oh i don't even have to start on the crucial big time goals he helped . With tevez we get the attacking edge . Cos he not only does the hard work , but he also is technically brilliant .
But yeah . Rooney is my player of the season minus ronaldo .