Former Manchester United defender Paul Parker has slaughtered new club captain Wayne Rooney.
On the eve of Rooney leading England tonight at Wembley against Norway, Parker did not hold back.
After discussing Robin van Persie's disappointing display at Turf Moor in his Yahoo! Sport blog, Parker wrote: "As for Wayne Rooney, he's been awful. There he was at Burnley this weekend, supposedly captaining the team - but I saw a player interested only in himself, doing nothing to try and lift his game or inspire his team-mates.
"The only thing in any way remarkable about his performance is that he collects £300,000 a week to play that badly."
He added: "Once Van Persie is fully-fit again, Rooney must be the person to be dropped from United's new attacking line-up: for me, it'll be RVP and Falcao every time. And though there's lots of talk about him playing in the hole behind that front two, I think that'd be a huge mistake - why would you have Rooney there when Juan Mata or Angel Di Maria would do the job so much better?"
