Wayne Rooney confirms decision to return to management and 'puts name forward' for next job

Despite being sacked by Plymouth, Wayne Rooney inactive has the hunger to stay successful absorption and has adjacent enactment his sanction guardant for a Premier League presumption that could soon beryllium vacant

Another sacking hasn't dented Wayne Rooney's resoluteness to manager - and he's already "put his sanction forward" for his adjacent role.

The 39-year-old near Plymouth by communal consent successful December, marking Rooney's 4th managerial exit successful astir two-and-a-half years. A deficiency of occurrence astatine Derby, Birmingham City and DC United, successful summation to his Argyle spell, mightiness beryllium capable to enactment immoderate disconnected the vocation altogether. Still, Rooney is determined to instrumentality to the touchline.

"I would similar to spell backmost successful [to management]," helium said connected the Stick to Football podcast, to the astonishment of erstwhile Manchester United team-mate Gary Neville. "But it would person to beryllium the close club. Certainly the close club."

Neville's contiguous effect was to inquire United's all-time apical scorer if helium was "all right," suggesting Rooney indispensable beryllium huffy to person not been enactment disconnected coaching. But the retired forward's hunger to marque an interaction successful this broadside of the athletics hasn't wilted conscionable yet.

Rooney continued: "I deliberation you ever person that ego, don't you? You ever person that assurance you could spell successful and get the champion retired of a atrocious oregon hard situation. Obviously, that wasn't the lawsuit [at Plymouth]. I americium going to bask clip with my family, though."

Another of Rooney's aged United team-mates, Roy Keane, suggested Wazza's "strengths mightiness travel out" were helium to get a occupation moving with a higher-standard player. He concurred, saying each of his coaching positions to day had enactment him "in a challenging situation" from the start.

The erstwhile England frontman said he'd person "no problem" taking implicit an under-21 squad oregon taking up different coaching relation connected idiosyncratic else's staff. The Stick to Football formed besides discussed the existent troubles astatine Tottenham, wherever Ange Postecoglou could soon find himself retired of a job.

"I'll enactment my sanction forward," joked Rooney arsenic the country erupted successful acknowledgement that peculiar presumption whitethorn beryllium retired of reach. However, immoderate Spurs fans whitethorn instrumentality conscionable astir thing that resembles alteration arsenic they beryllium 15th successful the Premier League, wherever they haven't won a crippled since December 15.

Some whitethorn laughter disconnected the thought of Rooney coaching successful the apical flight, fixed his struggles successful the Championship and Major League Soccer to date. But helium hasn't hidden his eventual tendency to instrumentality implicit 1 of his erstwhile employers successful England.

"Managing Manchester United oregon Everton is the aim, these large jobs are wherever you privation to get to," helium said connected Match of the Day aft his Birmingham sacking successful January 2024. "But it's a process I person got to spell done the steps and get myself backmost connected track. I privation to get myself backmost into absorption to marque definite successful the adjacent 10 years I'm hopefully successful a presumption to spell into 1 of the large jobs."

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