Wayne Rooney has named his three gamers of the Premier League season thus far forward of the return of home soccer this weekend.
However reasonably than plumping for a number of the greater names at the moment on the prime of their sport within the English prime flight, Rooney named stars who proved considerably divisive on social media.
When posed the query by Amazon Prime Sport, the Manchester United legend first named Antoine Semenyo, who has notched up a tidy six Premier League objectives and an extra three assists in his 11 matches for Bournemouth.
‘I feel he is been nice for Bournemouth, carrying on his type from final season,’ Rooney started.
‘I would additionally assume I would put Bryan Mbeumo in there,’ the pundit continued. ‘I feel he is been actually good for Man United, even after a troublesome begin for the membership. I feel he is been actually good.’
‘Third one, I would most likely go Viktor Gyokeres,’ Rooney added.
Wayne Rooney has shared who he believes have been the Premier League’s standouts thus far
Whereas Bournemouth’s Antoine Semenyo (left) made the checklist, greater names like Erling Haaland missed out
‘Arsenal have been crying out for a No 9 for just a few years now, and he is are available in, and his dedication, and his work fee, and his hold-up participant (have been good). Clearly he is scored just a few objectives as nicely.’
However followers on social media had been fast to counsel their very own alterations to the checklist, specifically highlighting the omission of Erling Haaland, who towers head and shoulders above the remainder of his Premier League goalscoring competitors.
The Norwegian behemoth has an astonishing 14 league objectives to his identify already this season, and throughout the worldwide break helped his nationwide workforce obtain historic qualification to subsequent yr’s World Cup in North America.
Commenters on social media pilloried Rooney’s selections, for not simply lacking out on naming Haaland, however failing to present midfield stars like Chelsea’s Moises Caicedo, Gyokeres’ Arsenal team-mate Declan Rice, or Sunderland captain Granit Xhaka a point out in his checklist.
Some went so far as suggesting that his selections had been proof of his failings as a supervisor, with Rooney but to return to the dugout after his final doomed spell in dugout at Birmingham Metropolis.
‘It’s no nice shock he’s not cracked it as a coach with this take,’ one social media person mentioned.
One other added: ‘I like Rooney however that is clearly why he always fails as a supervisor (laughing out loud).’
However whereas Rooney could also be a long-shot for managerial openings in the intervening time, his pivot to punditry has been incomes him plaudits, with Liverpool icon Graeme Souness amongst one among his followers.
‘I like listening to Wayne Rooney as a pundit as a result of he talks frequent sense,’ Souness informed Each day Mail Sport, courtesy of Sky Guess.
‘For those who’re placing collectively an all-time Manchester United workforce, Wayne Rooney is among the first names on the sheet – he was an actual warrior.
‘I like Wayne Rooney as a participant, and I prefer to hearken to him – he has received authority so I can hearken to him.
‘Among the different pundits, I flip the sound down.’
