Wayne Rooney may have been absent when Wolfsburg drove the final nail
into Manchester United’s Champions League coffin on Tuesday and also
missed the previous defeat at PSV in the opening group fixture, but that
makes him no less culpable for the embarrassing early exit which has
left everyone at Old Trafford reeling.
The rigid style of play demanded by Louis van Gaal has certainly done nobody any favours, but Rooney’s complete lack of form this season has had a defining impact on United having lost much of their edge, even though he has been afforded countless allowances as the club’s captain and icon.
Save for his hat-trick against a disappointing and increasingly desperate Club Brugge in the Champions League play-off tie, Rooney has regularly failed to create any sort of danger for opponents whether playing as a main striker or off the shoulder of the front man as a No.10.
He is constantly on the back foot whenever a 50/50 ball is there to be competed for, suggesting the extra yard of pace lost in the body has not been sufficiently compensated by a sharpness in the mind. If Van Gaal is pinning his hopes on the 30-year-old to help United through their difficult patch, as currently appears to be the case, then it would seem he is backing the wrong horse.
Rooney has netted a total of 237 goals for United, but the days when fans filling local pubs before matches at Old Trafford would chant his name long and loud, comparing him to Pele, have long gone. Look for videos of such instances on YouTube and you’ll find they are anything between four and eight years old.
The rigid style of play demanded by Louis van Gaal has certainly done nobody any favours, but Rooney’s complete lack of form this season has had a defining impact on United having lost much of their edge, even though he has been afforded countless allowances as the club’s captain and icon.
Save for his hat-trick against a disappointing and increasingly desperate Club Brugge in the Champions League play-off tie, Rooney has regularly failed to create any sort of danger for opponents whether playing as a main striker or off the shoulder of the front man as a No.10.
He is constantly on the back foot whenever a 50/50 ball is there to be competed for, suggesting the extra yard of pace lost in the body has not been sufficiently compensated by a sharpness in the mind. If Van Gaal is pinning his hopes on the 30-year-old to help United through their difficult patch, as currently appears to be the case, then it would seem he is backing the wrong horse.
Rooney has netted a total of 237 goals for United, but the days when fans filling local pubs before matches at Old Trafford would chant his name long and loud, comparing him to Pele, have long gone. Look for videos of such instances on YouTube and you’ll find they are anything between four and eight years old.
It seems to be an indisputable fact that Rooney’s best days are done,
but the question now is what can be done with him. In the short term it
might well be the right option to overlook him for the foreseeable
future, but even if that proves to be a profitable move that leaves
United with a need to decide on a longer-lasting course of action.
At £300,000 a week, his is the fattest pay packet at Manchester United, and any hopes of offloading him will be severely restricted by the three-and-a-half years which they are contractually obliged to continue paying him so handsomely. There is talk that Everton would be interested in bringing back a player with the club in his blood, yet the finances simply don’t add up.
Jose Mourinho, meanwhile, made a big play to tempt Rooney to west London upon his return to Stamford Bridge two years go and although he is understood to remain a big admirer of the England skipper, having had his fingers burned with Radamel Falcao, and Andriy Shevchenko in the past, an ageing Rooney is unlikely to be the man he will look at in order to revive his own struggling Chelsea foward line.
It is normally when United are at their weakest that Rooney looks to cash in by extending his stay with the club, but the days when he held the trump card are long gone. His form has been nothing short of abysmal, while worrying rumours coming out of the club have suggested his wayward off-field antics of years gone by have begun to sneak back into the equation once more.
He currently stands just 12 goals shy of Sir Bobby Charlton’s record of 249 for Manchester United yet he has never looked less likely to usurp the World Cup winner. United may be fast approaching decision time on the future of Wayne Rooney.
At £300,000 a week, his is the fattest pay packet at Manchester United, and any hopes of offloading him will be severely restricted by the three-and-a-half years which they are contractually obliged to continue paying him so handsomely. There is talk that Everton would be interested in bringing back a player with the club in his blood, yet the finances simply don’t add up.
Jose Mourinho, meanwhile, made a big play to tempt Rooney to west London upon his return to Stamford Bridge two years go and although he is understood to remain a big admirer of the England skipper, having had his fingers burned with Radamel Falcao, and Andriy Shevchenko in the past, an ageing Rooney is unlikely to be the man he will look at in order to revive his own struggling Chelsea foward line.
It is normally when United are at their weakest that Rooney looks to cash in by extending his stay with the club, but the days when he held the trump card are long gone. His form has been nothing short of abysmal, while worrying rumours coming out of the club have suggested his wayward off-field antics of years gone by have begun to sneak back into the equation once more.
He currently stands just 12 goals shy of Sir Bobby Charlton’s record of 249 for Manchester United yet he has never looked less likely to usurp the World Cup winner. United may be fast approaching decision time on the future of Wayne Rooney.
Facebook is releasing for free the designs of a powerful new computer server it crafted to put more power behind artificial-intelligence software. Serkan Piantino, an engineering director in Facebook’s AI Research group, says the new servers are twice as fast as those Facebook used before. “We will discover more things in machine learning and AI as a result,” he says.
The social network’s giveaway is the latest in a recent flurry of announcements by tech giants that are open-sourcing artificial-intelligence technology, which is becoming vital to consumer and business-computing services. Opening up the technology is seen as a way to accelerate progress in the broader field, while also helping tech companies to boost their reputations and make key hires.
In November, Google opened up software called TensorFlow, used to power the company’s speech recognition and image search (see “Here’s What Developers Are Doing with Google’s AI Brain”). Just three days later Microsoft released software that distributes machine-learning software across multiple machines to make it more powerful. Not long after, IBM announced the fruition of an earlier promise to open-source SystemML, originally developed to use machine learning to find useful patterns in corporate databanks.
Facebook’s new server design, dubbed Big Sur, was created to power deep-learning software, which processes data using roughly simulated neurons (see “Teaching Computers to Understand Us”). The invention of ways to put more power behind deep learning, using graphics processors, or GPUs, was crucial to recent leaps in the ability of computers to understand speech, images, and language. Facebook worked closely with Nvidia, a leading manufacturer of GPUs, on its new server designs, which have been stripped down to cram in more of the chips. The hardware can be used to run Google’s TensorFlow software.
Yann LeCun, director of Facebook’s AI Research group, says that one reason to open up the Big Sur designs is that the social network is well placed to slurp up any new ideas it can unlock. “Companies like us actually thrive on fast progress; the faster the progress can be made, the better it is for us,” says LeCun. Facebook open-sourced deep-learning software of its own in February of this year.
LeCun says that opening up Facebook’s technology also helps attract leading talent. A company can benefit by being seen as benevolent, and also by encouraging people to become familiar with a particular way of working and thinking. As Google, Facebook, and other companies have increased their investments in artificial intelligence, competition to hire experts in the technology has intensified (see “Is Google Cornering the Market in Deep Learning?”).
Derek Schoettle, general manager of IBM Cloud Data Services unit, which offers tools to help companies analyze data, says that machine-learning technology has to be opened up for it to become widespread. Open-source projects have played a major role in establishing large-scale databases and data analysis as the bedrock of modern computing companies large and small, he says. Real value tends to lie in what companies can do with the tools, not the tools themselves.
“What’s going to be interesting and valuable is the data that’s moving in that system and the ways people can find value in that data,” he says. Late last month, IBM transferred its SystemML machine-learning software, designed around techniques other than deep learning, to the Apache Software Foundation, which supports several major open-source projects.
Facebook’s Big Sur server design will be submitted to the Open Compute Project, a group started by the social network through which companies including Apple and Microsoft share designs of computing infrastructure to drive down costs (see “Inside Facebook’s Not-So-Secret New Data Center”). - See more at: http://9jaminglesite.blogspot.com.ng/2015/12/tech-facebook-joins-stampede-of-tech.html#sthash.xMx5f0kO.dpuf
Wayne Rooney may have been absent when Wolfsburg drove the final nail
into Manchester United’s Champions League coffin on Tuesday and also
missed the previous defeat at PSV in the opening group fixture, but that
makes him no less culpable for the embarrassing early exit which has
left everyone at Old Trafford reeling.
The rigid style of play demanded by Louis van Gaal has certainly done nobody any favours, but Rooney’s complete lack of form this season has had a defining impact on United having lost much of their edge, even though he has been afforded countless allowances as the club’s captain and icon.
Save for his hat-trick against a disappointing and increasingly desperate Club Brugge in the Champions League play-off tie, Rooney has regularly failed to create any sort of danger for opponents whether playing as a main striker or off the shoulder of the front man as a No.10.
He is constantly on the back foot whenever a 50/50 ball is there to be competed for, suggesting the extra yard of pace lost in the body has not been sufficiently compensated by a sharpness in the mind. If Van Gaal is pinning his hopes on the 30-year-old to help United through their difficult patch, as currently appears to be the case, then it would seem he is backing the wrong horse.
Rooney has netted a total of 237 goals for United, but the days when fans filling local pubs before matches at Old Trafford would chant his name long and loud, comparing him to Pele, have long gone. Look for videos of such instances on YouTube and you’ll find they are anything between four and eight years old. - See more at: http://9jaminglesite.blogspot.com.ng/2015/12/question-of-day-how-will-man-united-van.html#sthash.dPfvqY6Z.dpuf
The rigid style of play demanded by Louis van Gaal has certainly done nobody any favours, but Rooney’s complete lack of form this season has had a defining impact on United having lost much of their edge, even though he has been afforded countless allowances as the club’s captain and icon.
Save for his hat-trick against a disappointing and increasingly desperate Club Brugge in the Champions League play-off tie, Rooney has regularly failed to create any sort of danger for opponents whether playing as a main striker or off the shoulder of the front man as a No.10.
He is constantly on the back foot whenever a 50/50 ball is there to be competed for, suggesting the extra yard of pace lost in the body has not been sufficiently compensated by a sharpness in the mind. If Van Gaal is pinning his hopes on the 30-year-old to help United through their difficult patch, as currently appears to be the case, then it would seem he is backing the wrong horse.
Rooney has netted a total of 237 goals for United, but the days when fans filling local pubs before matches at Old Trafford would chant his name long and loud, comparing him to Pele, have long gone. Look for videos of such instances on YouTube and you’ll find they are anything between four and eight years old. - See more at: http://9jaminglesite.blogspot.com.ng/2015/12/question-of-day-how-will-man-united-van.html#sthash.dPfvqY6Z.dpuf
Wayne Rooney may have been absent when Wolfsburg drove the final nail
into Manchester United’s Champions League coffin on Tuesday and also
missed the previous defeat at PSV in the opening group fixture, but that
makes him no less culpable for the embarrassing early exit which has
left everyone at Old Trafford reeling.
The rigid style of play demanded by Louis van Gaal has certainly done nobody any favours, but Rooney’s complete lack of form this season has had a defining impact on United having lost much of their edge, even though he has been afforded countless allowances as the club’s captain and icon.
Save for his hat-trick against a disappointing and increasingly desperate Club Brugge in the Champions League play-off tie, Rooney has regularly failed to create any sort of danger for opponents whether playing as a main striker or off the shoulder of the front man as a No.10.
He is constantly on the back foot whenever a 50/50 ball is there to be competed for, suggesting the extra yard of pace lost in the body has not been sufficiently compensated by a sharpness in the mind. If Van Gaal is pinning his hopes on the 30-year-old to help United through their difficult patch, as currently appears to be the case, then it would seem he is backing the wrong horse.
Rooney has netted a total of 237 goals for United, but the days when fans filling local pubs before matches at Old Trafford would chant his name long and loud, comparing him to Pele, have long gone. Look for videos of such instances on YouTube and you’ll find they are anything between four and eight years old. - See more at: http://9jaminglesite.blogspot.com.ng/2015/12/question-of-day-how-will-man-united-van.html#sthash.dPfvqY6Z.dpuf
The rigid style of play demanded by Louis van Gaal has certainly done nobody any favours, but Rooney’s complete lack of form this season has had a defining impact on United having lost much of their edge, even though he has been afforded countless allowances as the club’s captain and icon.
Save for his hat-trick against a disappointing and increasingly desperate Club Brugge in the Champions League play-off tie, Rooney has regularly failed to create any sort of danger for opponents whether playing as a main striker or off the shoulder of the front man as a No.10.
He is constantly on the back foot whenever a 50/50 ball is there to be competed for, suggesting the extra yard of pace lost in the body has not been sufficiently compensated by a sharpness in the mind. If Van Gaal is pinning his hopes on the 30-year-old to help United through their difficult patch, as currently appears to be the case, then it would seem he is backing the wrong horse.
Rooney has netted a total of 237 goals for United, but the days when fans filling local pubs before matches at Old Trafford would chant his name long and loud, comparing him to Pele, have long gone. Look for videos of such instances on YouTube and you’ll find they are anything between four and eight years old. - See more at: http://9jaminglesite.blogspot.com.ng/2015/12/question-of-day-how-will-man-united-van.html#sthash.dPfvqY6Z.dpuf
Wayne Rooney may have been absent when Wolfsburg drove the final nail
into Manchester United’s Champions League coffin on Tuesday and also
missed the previous defeat at PSV in the opening group fixture, but that
makes him no less culpable for the embarrassing early exit which has
left everyone at Old Trafford reeling.
The rigid style of play demanded by Louis van Gaal has certainly done nobody any favours, but Rooney’s complete lack of form this season has had a defining impact on United having lost much of their edge, even though he has been afforded countless allowances as the club’s captain and icon.
Save for his hat-trick against a disappointing and increasingly desperate Club Brugge in the Champions League play-off tie, Rooney has regularly failed to create any sort of danger for opponents whether playing as a main striker or off the shoulder of the front man as a No.10.
He is constantly on the back foot whenever a 50/50 ball is there to be competed for, suggesting the extra yard of pace lost in the body has not been sufficiently compensated by a sharpness in the mind. If Van Gaal is pinning his hopes on the 30-year-old to help United through their difficult patch, as currently appears to be the case, then it would seem he is backing the wrong horse.
Rooney has netted a total of 237 goals for United, but the days when fans filling local pubs before matches at Old Trafford would chant his name long and loud, comparing him to Pele, have long gone. Look for videos of such instances on YouTube and you’ll find they are anything between four and eight years old. - See more at: http://9jaminglesite.blogspot.com.ng/2015/12/question-of-day-how-will-man-united-van.html#sthash.dPfvqY6Z.dpuf
The rigid style of play demanded by Louis van Gaal has certainly done nobody any favours, but Rooney’s complete lack of form this season has had a defining impact on United having lost much of their edge, even though he has been afforded countless allowances as the club’s captain and icon.
Save for his hat-trick against a disappointing and increasingly desperate Club Brugge in the Champions League play-off tie, Rooney has regularly failed to create any sort of danger for opponents whether playing as a main striker or off the shoulder of the front man as a No.10.
He is constantly on the back foot whenever a 50/50 ball is there to be competed for, suggesting the extra yard of pace lost in the body has not been sufficiently compensated by a sharpness in the mind. If Van Gaal is pinning his hopes on the 30-year-old to help United through their difficult patch, as currently appears to be the case, then it would seem he is backing the wrong horse.
Rooney has netted a total of 237 goals for United, but the days when fans filling local pubs before matches at Old Trafford would chant his name long and loud, comparing him to Pele, have long gone. Look for videos of such instances on YouTube and you’ll find they are anything between four and eight years old. - See more at: http://9jaminglesite.blogspot.com.ng/2015/12/question-of-day-how-will-man-united-van.html#sthash.dPfvqY6Z.dpuf
Wayne Rooney may have been absent when Wolfsburg drove the final nail
into Manchester United’s Champions League coffin on Tuesday and also
missed the previous defeat at PSV in the opening group fixture, but that
makes him no less culpable for the embarrassing early exit which has
left everyone at Old Trafford reeling.
The rigid style of play demanded by Louis van Gaal has certainly done nobody any favours, but Rooney’s complete lack of form this season has had a defining impact on United having lost much of their edge, even though he has been afforded countless allowances as the club’s captain and icon.
Save for his hat-trick against a disappointing and increasingly desperate Club Brugge in the Champions League play-off tie, Rooney has regularly failed to create any sort of danger for opponents whether playing as a main striker or off the shoulder of the front man as a No.10.
He is constantly on the back foot whenever a 50/50 ball is there to be competed for, suggesting the extra yard of pace lost in the body has not been sufficiently compensated by a sharpness in the mind. If Van Gaal is pinning his hopes on the 30-year-old to help United through their difficult patch, as currently appears to be the case, then it would seem he is backing the wrong horse.
Rooney has netted a total of 237 goals for United, but the days when fans filling local pubs before matches at Old Trafford would chant his name long and loud, comparing him to Pele, have long gone. Look for videos of such instances on YouTube and you’ll find they are anything between four and eight years old. - See more at: http://9jaminglesite.blogspot.com.ng/2015/12/question-of-day-how-will-man-united-van.html#sthash.dPfvqY6Z.dpuf
The rigid style of play demanded by Louis van Gaal has certainly done nobody any favours, but Rooney’s complete lack of form this season has had a defining impact on United having lost much of their edge, even though he has been afforded countless allowances as the club’s captain and icon.
Save for his hat-trick against a disappointing and increasingly desperate Club Brugge in the Champions League play-off tie, Rooney has regularly failed to create any sort of danger for opponents whether playing as a main striker or off the shoulder of the front man as a No.10.
He is constantly on the back foot whenever a 50/50 ball is there to be competed for, suggesting the extra yard of pace lost in the body has not been sufficiently compensated by a sharpness in the mind. If Van Gaal is pinning his hopes on the 30-year-old to help United through their difficult patch, as currently appears to be the case, then it would seem he is backing the wrong horse.
Rooney has netted a total of 237 goals for United, but the days when fans filling local pubs before matches at Old Trafford would chant his name long and loud, comparing him to Pele, have long gone. Look for videos of such instances on YouTube and you’ll find they are anything between four and eight years old. - See more at: http://9jaminglesite.blogspot.com.ng/2015/12/question-of-day-how-will-man-united-van.html#sthash.dPfvqY6Z.dpuf
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