Rooney scored a hat trick on his champs league debut - something that Nistlerooy, one of highest scoring prem strikers in the recent prem - never managed. he's already one of the greats, and has the potential to be even more.
don't use the arguement that he 'sucked in the world cup'. Lampard and gerrard didn't play well either, and they suck too right?
rooney wasn't even supposed to play in this WC, he broke his foot just a month before in a prem match. i doubt there are any other players who have been injured that close to a tournament, recovered, and with very limited training came on and lifted the team in the way that Rooney did vs T+T.
oh, and rooney transfered for a total of 29m.