Wayne Rooney is without doubt the best footballer in the world. OK Rooney had a bad world cup but so did Ronaldinho and Messi. Wayne Rooney was rushed into the world cup by the mad stupidity of Sven.  Rooney was clearly injured and Maradona was awful in the 1982 world cup as well. Wayne Rooney works very hard, always tracks back and his vision and awareness is phenomenal. Johan Cruyff has said that Wayne Rooney's vision and awareness is much better than Kakas. Sir Bobby Robson has labelled Wayne Rooney as the very best footballer he has seen in the last 40 years. Diego Maradona has said Rooney is just like himself as a player and Rooney along with Messi and Riquelme are the very best footballers in the world and we all know that Rooney completely outshone both Messi and Riquelme in the England - Argentina friendly in Switzerland in November 2005. The Brazilian journalists refer to Rooney as the white pele, a name by which they only referred to Zico by. Terry Venables who has managed Maradona at Barcelona has commented that whenever he has seen Rooney in training at Man Utd and England he has seen Rooney do things in training that he didnt even see Maradona  attempt whilst at Barcelona. Rooney can no doubt lead Man Utd to unparallel success in premiership and champions league just as how Puskas did with Real Madrid in Europe and Maradona did with Napoli. People keep mentioning what has Rooney done but dont forget Maradona was absolutely awful when he was at Barcelona and his first three years at Napoli were not successful either. According to Franz Beckenbauer what makes Rooney as potentially the greatest footballer ever is the fact that Rooney can play as a defensive midfield player in the mould of Redondo/Dunga/Makelele/Pirlo and he can even better them as Rooney is very tenacious and hard-working in breaking down opposition play and immediately insitgating quick attacks.

Please dont mention Henry as the best in the world as Henry is definately not a big game player. Henry goes missing in the big games whereas Rooney thrives on the big games and Henry is just way too arrogant. There is noway id want such an arrogant influence at Old Trafford. To mention Henrys name alongside the greatest ever players such as Pele, Rooney and Maradona is an absolute insult to these great legends  

Who the hell ever mentioned anything about Rooney or Henry. Kaka is the best out there, if u want to chat and discuss go to the Milan forum.

rooney wasn't the best... he didn't perform well in man utd.. his touch was poor.. and shot wasn't so accurate either.. so wats makes him the white pele?? C.ronaldo was why man utd is still at first place.. rooney is only good in some game and he is not consistent and his temper may be a trouble.. to be the best player, u have to be consistent.. like ronaldinho, henry.. he have to have their kind of consistency.. talent dun count a bit.. there's so many talented player out there..
i must say, if not for the poor world cup performance.. ronaldinho should be the player of the year this year.. he is in poor form but he still scored 16 goals...