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Club chief speaks out on ex-Derby County boss Wayne Rooney amid Plymouth nightmare
Plymouth director of football Neil Dewsnip insists Wayne Rooney has the support of everybody at the Championship club despite their troubling form.
Reports this week claimed the ex-Derby boss is under threat of losing his job with the next two games against Oxford and Swansea pivotal to his future. Argyle shipped in 10 goals in their last two games with Norwich thrashing them 6-1 before Bristol City thumped them 4-0 at the weekend.
Rooney, who quit Derby in the summer of 2022, says it was his hardest week in football at a time when he is dealing with a number of significant injury problems. Argyle are just one place above the Championship dropzone and Dewsnip told BBC Radio Devon.
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"He's driven to turn the ship around," he said. "We're all behind him, we're all fighting alongside him and hopefully we can turn that into a good performance and a winning performance on Saturday."
Rooney has targeted safety this season and Dewsnip added: "Wayne talks about how he'd love to be safe with at least four games to go, so that's kind of where the target will remain until we've achieved it," Dewsnip said.
"But we mustn't forget we're in a league that has some really big football clubs, Premier League clubs if we're really honest.
"We're competing in the bottom half of that league - you might even argue the bottom half of the bottom half of that league. So we have sensible expectations, we know it is a massive challenge, but one that we relish, one that we understand and one that we succeeded in last year and we're going to succeed again this year."
