Huge Wayne Rooney sacking update as Plymouth chief breaks silence after horror run of results

WAYNE ROONEY is not facing the sack astatine Plymouth, according to president Simon Hallett.

The Pilgrims person struggled this play and find themselves languishing conscionable 1 spot and 2 points supra the relegation zone.

A 6-1 decision distant astatine Norwich followed up by a 4-0 thrashing astatine the hands of Bristol City sparked reports Rooney had 2 matches to prevention his job.

But Hallett has dismissed those supports arsenic rubbish and assured the committee are not considering getting escaped of the Manchester United legend.

Instead, Hallett told a fans forum that they privation to enactment Rooney arsenic they person a batch of content successful his abilities arsenic a manager.

As reported by the Plymouth Herald, Hallett said: "What we are going to bash is not deliberation astir getting escaped of him and changing him.

"We are reasoning astir however we tin enactment him.

"So determination are nary conversations going connected astir replacing Wayne but determination are conversations going connected astir however we tin enactment him to assistance him go the large manager that we deliberation is successful there."

Hallett besides provided fans with an update connected concern into the club, stating it could instrumentality Plymouth to the adjacent level.

He added: "Our ambitions are fundamentally to vie successful the apical fractional of the Championship and astatine the infinitesimal we are competing successful the bottommost fractional of the Championship.

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"We person been precise unfastened astir this, that we are looking for caller investment, which we deliberation volition assistance america some proceed to make the infrastructure and proceed to turn the gross base, successful bid to put oregon walk much connected the archetypal squad squad, truthful that's portion of the strategy.

"But I person ever been wide since I archetypal became president of Argyle that I thought my resources could get america to the Championship and if we wanted to propulsion connected beyond that we would request idiosyncratic with antithetic resources.

"We person been disappointed successful however agelong it has taken to find a caller investor. I person been reasoning this for astir 8 months, but I deliberation we are connected the verge of being capable to travel nationalist with something.

"We person really got the EFL already opening the archetypal support process. The advancement has been dilatory and each clip I deliberation we are close, you get a small spot person but you don't rather get there.

"I'm inactive hopeful we are going to beryllium capable to onshore a caller capitalist who is going to beryllium capable to assistance america propulsion on, but this twelvemonth we are competing successful the bottommost fractional of the Championship due to the fact that we person failed to get the resources that we had hoped."