Wayne Rooney issues 'I loved my time at Plymouth Argyle' message
Former Plymouth Argyle head coach Wayne Rooney would like another shot at management but has admitted it would have to be 'the right club'.
Rooney left the Pilgrims on New Year's Eve with the club at the bottom of the Championship following a disastrous run of results, only six months after being appointed. Now four weeks later and appearing as a guest on the Stock to Football podcast hosted by his former Manchester United and England team-mate Gary Neville he has reflected on his time at Argyle.
Neville questioned Rooney about why he had thought Argyle was the right fit for him when the club was so far away from his family home in Cheshire and with his wife Coleen staying there.
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Rooney said: "It's part of being a manager regardless any way, you are fully in it. So whether you are six, seven hours away or it's on your doorstep you are ingrained in the job.
"It doesn't matter really where the location is. One thing I will say, I loved my time there. The fans were great, the staff were great. We just hit a bad run of form. The players, I can't fault them. They were trying, they were giving everything and maybe just lacked that bit of quality."
Rooney has now had spells in charge at Derby County, DC United, Birmingham City and Argyle, and has had struggles at all of those clubs for a variety of reasons, but it has not put him off trying it again.
He told Neville: "I would like to go back in. I would do, but it would have to be the right club, certainly the right club.
"You always have that ego, don't you? You always have that confidence you can go in and you can get the best out of a bad situation or a difficult situation. Obviously, that wasn't the case, it never happened that way. I am going to enjoy time with my family. I have just been skiing with Coleen. I loved it."
He added: "I'm not in a massive rush to go back in and there is different things which I'm looking at to try and get involved with as well."
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