Rooney to miss start of season with virus

Shouldn't take almost 12 days to recover from a virus and these guys get top medical attention, it should be gone in days at the most.

I bet it'll be a long while before Man U goes back to Nigeria for pre-season training.

Tough break for the Wonder Boy. Lets hope he recovers quickly.

At least it is only the Geordies for the first match

Funny that Ajax, here's a stat for you. United lost 7 times in all competitions last season. Rooney didn't take part in any of those 7 games.

Just a thought Ajax!

English players aren't accustomed to having Nigerian viruses. Rooney needs as much time as he can to recover, because it's a disease his body has likely never experienced before....

And besides, with viruses, the body has to fight the disease...you can't just give him antibiotics and send him on his way. It takes time. Get well soon, Roo!

newtonheath1878 ,nice analysis there i hope ajax72 has gotten the message .united forever

"It's a virus he picked up in Nigeria and it's not a nice one, but quite a few have had it." - SAF

Quite a few, but are they missing games too?

And I say that not lightly, last winter, early spring a virus went around and did affect a lot of people.

Ouch! Nice one, Tonto! I can always appreciate a nice burn.

Rooney has the AIDS virus. Another Impressive Display of Stars.

newtonheath, that's worse than I thought. In that case, Rooney may not play again, the poor g(a)uy!

Bubble blower, it is all tongue in cheek my friend. The season is about to start and there is nothing more enjoyable than having a dig at my scouse rivals. If you were to be in my office here in England believe you me you would be hearing a lot worse. We have a combination of United, City, Liverpool, Everton, Newcastle and Villa fans add many other fans of clubs from the lower leagues and I'm sure you can imagine the type of banter that goes on!

Bandwagon United: plastic fans, Manure! All just tongue in cheek!

I dont understand your last post E T V???

BesTalentScout try suppositories, they supposed to be good for that!

Not at all, they made over a million pounds visiting Nigeria, and won over lots of supporters too. Very good business indeed.

You don't have to go to Africa to pick a virus up. You can catch a virus in your own community. To say that Manchester United will have learned a lesson is stupid and ridiculous. If everyone thought like you, nobody would go anywhere. The whole ideal of football is that it is a world game and countries like "the shithole" you talked about are delighted when teams like Manchester United visit them. A great experience for the fans and the players. I'm quite sure their drinks and food were carefully vetted and feel Rooney and Carrick were just basically unlucky.

Giorgio, I'm far from giving you advices, but I think that ANYthing you might ever say here will be completely wasted on the OneMan Utd fans. They are so obsessed with their wanna-be-great club that they won't listen to reason.

I see you're on another united news page Ajax. I think you're a closet Red!

Goal has an article that the organisers of the 3 game tour through Africa are upset at this story. So, this is a new chapter. The organisers called it a "lie from the pit of hell"! Strong words. I guess they are saying it gives Nigeria a BAD RAP. Sounds plausible to me.

The Nigerian organisers are saying bollocks to the idea Rooney contracted Montezuma's revenge in Lagos. I may not have made that clear. As for Rooney, like him or not, I wonder what the most posted story here on soccerway has been. This is getting up there but one more day and it will have to be searched out in the archives.