Wayne Rooney made clear the two jobs he wants as Man Utd 'withdraw offer for good'

Plymouth Argyle manager Wayne Rooney publically acceptable retired his ambition of managing Manchester United successful the future, but his erstwhile club, wherever helium is the all-time goal-scorer, person present snubbed him

Wayne Rooney announced his imagination of managing Manchester United or Everton successful the “next 10 years” earlier the Red Devils decided against making him an ambassador.

Rooney, who enjoyed a glittering 13-year vocation with United, was fired 3 months into his erstwhile managerial relation astatine Birmingham City in January 2024 aft a woeful tally of 9 defeats successful 15 matches. But that didn’t dampen his spirits, revealing a period aboriginal that helium had acceptable a clip framework for erstwhile he wanted to instrumentality complaint of either of his 2 erstwhile clubs.

He presently manages Plymouth Argyle, who are 18th successful the Championship. The 39-year-old signed a declaration with United successful 2014, which meant helium was owed an ambassadorial presumption astatine Old Trafford astatine the extremity of his playing career.

Despite the pre-agreement ending erstwhile helium aboriginal returned to play for Everton, reports astatine the clip claimed helium would inactive beryllium offered a relation - thing helium whitethorn good person done if helium were to suffer his occupation astatine Plymouth.

But arsenic portion of a caller acceptable of cost-cutting measures, The Daily Star reports that caller United owners INEOS person scrapped the thought of making Rooney an ambassador for good, contempt his legendary status. The club’s ownership is moving distant from ambassadors wholly nether the caller regime, with caller number proprietor Sir Jim Ratcliffe reportedly baulking astatine the jaw-dropping figures successful United’s accounts.

It comes aft Ratcliffe controversially decided to terminate Sir Alex Ferguson's ambassadorial declaration astatine the extremity of the season, with the legendary erstwhile manager having earned implicit £2million-a-year successful the relation since 2013.

It is unclear whether Rooney, United’s grounds goal-scorer, volition reassess his dreams of coaching the Red Devils present that the nine has chopped ties with him. Revealing his semipermanent ambitions, helium had said: “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."

The legendary England striker’s archetypal absorption occupation came astatine Derby County, wherever helium was caput manager betwixt January 2021 and June 2022. He kept the nine successful the Championship during the 2021-22 play and astir repeated the aforesaid feat the pursuing twelvemonth contempt being deed with a 21-point deduction. The 55 points Derby won that twelvemonth would person been capable to unafraid information successful immoderate different season.

He past took complaint of D.C. United, a nine he'd antecedently played for, successful July 2022. However, the MLS outfit finished bottommost of the Eastern Conference successful his archetypal twelvemonth successful complaint earlier improving to ninth successful the standings the twelvemonth after.

His assignment astatine Birmingham astatine the commencement of past play came arsenic a shock, fixed the nine sat successful the Championship playoff positions astatine the clip Rooney's predecessor, John Eustace, was fired.

As a player, Rooney signed for United from Everton successful 2004. He played a whopping 559 games for the club, scoring 253 goals, and was expected to decorativeness his iconic playing vocation astatine United earlier falling retired of favour nether Jose Mourinho successful the 2016/17 season.

That prompted a instrumentality to his boyhood club, Everton. Spells astatine D.C. United and Derby followed, wherever helium hung up his boots successful 2021 and transitioned into management.

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