Transfer speculation on Rooney, Ronaldo, Suarez

There’s just over a month to go until the big kick-off and the summer’s three big transfers are still up in the air.  Will Wayne Rooney join Jose Mourinho at Chelsea?

Can Real Madrid lure Gareth Bale to Spain and will Luis Suarez be joining him? And will one of La Liga’s superstars, Cesc Fabregas or Cristiano Ronaldo, really come back to the Premier League? Here’s my advice for the men involved.

• Wayne Rooney: All Wayne Rooney has heard about since last summer is Robin van Persie and that can’t have been easy for him. Strikers like to be the centre of attention at their club. So Rooney is probably very flattered by the link to Jose Mourinho. He was used to being the main man at Manchester United but last season went wrong from the moment he got injured with that nasty gash at the start of the season. It then obviously hurt being dropped by Sir Alex Ferguson — maybe he didn’t feel as valued as in the past.

But Rooney doesn’t need to leave to be a great player. Why leave for another club when United is as big as there is? Yes, it will be a battle with Van Persie to be the No 1 striker but at United he’s surrounded by the best players in the country and that quality will drive him on. He doesn’t need a new challenge because he has the challenge he needs within his own club. He can be part of the new era at United under David Moyes and return to his form of previous seasons. Going to London is a gamble too. He’d have to uproot his whole family. He’s best to stay where he is.

• Luis Suarez:   Suarez is not at a club which is matching his achievements as an individual. But he should leave Liverpool. Once a player says they want to go, there’s little point trying to keep them. And he’s not even eligible for the first games of the season.

The Suarez saga will just be a sideshow until well into September, unless he leaves. We shouldn’t be talking about him once the season starts and I’m sure that's not what Brendan Rodgers wants either. Some people think he’s the best Liverpool striker since Kenny Dalglish but they have to accept the inevitable. It will hurt after how much the club have stood by him through the racism row and the biting incident but I can’t see it ending any other way.

• Cristiano Ronaldo: This one is hard to call. Real Madrid and Manchester United are both huge clubs so swapping one for the other isn’t hugely significant. But Ronaldo became the player he is at United. he joined them when he was a boy so the club is clearly still in his heart. He knows the club better than the new manager does. And he knows he would feel loved there, which has been a problem at times it seems in Spain. There was a special relationship between him and Sir Alex Ferguson and they might still need him to help persuade him to make the move.

What Ronaldo does week on week out on the pitch is nothing short of a miracle. Him coming back would send out a huge message to the Premier League that United are the team to beat. It would be a box-office signing that would keep them as top dogs. I think he’d come back and be a success, there’s no doubt about that. I’m just not convinced it will happen.

Source: The Sun