Manchester United striker Robin Van Persie believes his partnership with Wayne Rooney will only improve as the season goes on.
The two have been described as one of the deadliest strike-partners in world football, but haven’t been as successful as other duos such as; Sergio Aguer/Alvardo Negredo, or Daniel Sturridge/Luis Suarez.
However between them, RVP and Rooney have struck 15-goals so far this season and look the only promising sign for David Moyes and co. so far in this bad spell.
Speaking to the club’s official TV show, Van Persie believes the future is bright for him and Rooney together at Old Trafford.
“It’s the interaction together, it’s that we both want to play together,” he said in an interview broadcast on MUTV. “We realise that we are better off playing together because we are stronger as a partnership.
“With a player of Wayne’s calibre we can go from strength to strength and become even better than we are now.
“Lately we’ve been playing really well together, we’ve been setting up goals for each other, we are both scoring, which is what I want.
“It is important that this partnership is growing and becoming even stronger.”
“We are both ‘nine-and-a-halves”, he added. “We can play high up front, we can drop, it is an extra quality we both have which is quite rare.
“If you look around you have loads of main strikers, target men, ‘foxes in the boxes’, and you have ‘number 10s’ who are dropping in more and it’s very obvious.
“With us it’s not obvious, we can both do that job.
“Wayne is doing it a bit more because he’s playing behind me but we can both do it so we can change the game if it’s needed.”
Written by Alex Batt – @AlexBatt – @AlexsArticles
