Rooney, Roy and Raul are the toast of their teams

PARIS, Sept 28 (AFP) - Manchester United may have no money left after signing Wayne Rooney but it was well worth it if his debut was anything to go by as the teenage star hit a hat-trick to see his team to a 6-2 trouncing of Turkish side Fenerbahce in the Champions League on Tuesday.
Rooney may have been the toast of one half of Manchester but Dutchman Roy Makaay was the hero of Munich as he struck a hat-trick as well, as Bayern Munich strolled to a 4-0 hammering of Dutch giants Ajax.
There was champagne being popped also in Madrid on which there has not been much to do so thusfar this season for Real Madrid as Raul rediscovered his scoring touch and netted two in a come from behind 4-2 victory over another crisis club AS Roma.
Dynamo Kiev lead Real's group as they beat Bayer Leverkusen 4-2 to maintain their 100percent start to the campaign - having been given a 3-0 victory over Roma after the referee Anders Frisk was hit by a missile in their opening match in Rome.
Deportivo La Coruna would dearly love to have Makaay back as they fired blanks in the 2-0 reverse in Monaco, though it was an improvement on the 8-3 thrashing they took at the same opposition's hands last season.
Monaco will have been cheered too by Liverpool's surprise defeat at the hands of Olympiakos, the Greek side winning 1-0 and inflicting the English side's first ever loss at the hands of a team from their country.
Rooney, 18, who lasted the full 90 minutes, blasted two long-range first half goals and curled a spectacular second-half free-kick after Ryan Giggs had headed the home side in front in the seventh minute.
Rooney was wearing a United shirt for the first time after signing from English Premiership rivals Everton for 27 million pounds last month and since breaking a bone in his foot during Euro 2004 in June.
Dutch striker Ruud van Nistelrooy and winger David Bellion scored two more goals for United near the end, while Fenerbahce's Brazilian striker Nobre scored once and Tuncay Sanli a goal apiece for the visitors when the score was 3-0 and 4-1.
United manager Sir Alex Ferguson purred about the offensive side of his side's play.
"Attacking wise it was very good but their set pieces were excellent. They always kept us on edge," said the Scot, who has seen both Rio Ferdinand and Rooney make immediate imapcts on his team who had been struggling before then.
He was ecstatic too about Rooney's debut, though he added a word of caution about the striker's age saying that should be taken into account.
"Considering it was his first game it was magnificent.
"He tired in the last 20 minutes understandably.
"But don't forget he's still a young lad and he isn't over the adolescent stage yet."
Makaay has now scored ten times in as many Champions League matches for Bayern and moved the German powerhouse within touching distance of the knockout phase.
"We are delighted to win and it does not matter who scores the goals," said Makaay. "I know what I can do and I think people have seen today what Bayern are capable of.
Makaay has now scored 40 goals in 53 competitive matches for the Bavarian club.
"He is sensational at the moment and seems to score all the time," lauded team-mate Michael Ballack.
Ajax manager Ronald Koeman came here with fond memories after winning the 1988 European championships in Munich with the Netherlands but it was a night he would rather forget.
"We gave Bayern a game but did not have enough to offer," admitted Koeman. "It is nice for Bayern to have someone like Makaay. We do not have a player like that and it makes all the difference at this level," added Koeman reflecting bitterly on the summer sale of Swedish marksman Zlatan Ibrahimovic.
Real Madrid coach Mariano Garcia Remon, known in the Spanish capital as The Odessa Cat after heroics in a 1973 European Cup tie in the Ukraine, purred happily after their victory over Roma.
The comeback victory, after going two goals down in 21 minutes, almost certainly kept him in a job after recent criticism of Real and gave them a fighting chance of progressing from the Champions League group B.
"We showed the Real Madrid fans that we are not the worst team in the world. After the 3-0 loss at Bayer Leverkusen I think our fans were having doubts," said the former Real goalkeeper, who took over at the helm just eight days ago.
"It's clear that this was a great game. We won not just with courage but good football.
"I'm proud of my team. This is the result not of some great change but their day-to-day work.
"Against an Italian team, even at 3-2 up, you cannot relax if they have 11 men on the pitch. I am very satisfied not just with the result but the way they achieved it."
The three R's - Rooney, Roy and Raul may just have produced the sparked that their teams needed for their season to get underway so their rivals better look out.