WAYNE ROONEY will be offered an immediate return to work, Sun Online can reveal.
The England legend has left Plymouth Argyle after a disastrous managerial career that saw the Championship side bottom of the League.
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Wayne Rooney is looking for a new job after being sacked by Plymouth Argyle Credit: Getty
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The 39-year-old leaves the Pilgrims bottom of the Championship Credit: PA
A statement issued on Tuesday morning revealed that Rooney and the South West club had agreed to part ways.
But the former Man Utd and Everton striker won’t be twiddling his thumbs for long.
Sources have told Sun Online that Rooney is likely to be offered a megabucks to work as a football pundit after impressing during appearances on ITV and Sky.
A TV insider said: “Wayne is regarded as one of the best experts in the business.
“He’s very, very knowledgeable about the game.
“And even though he’s actually quite a shy person, he really feels at home in the TV studio.
The insider added: “It was a bad end to 2024 for Wayne, but he won’t be out of work for long.
“He will be offered the pundit job immediately, and there is interest from Sky in a potential long-term deal to tie him down as a pundit.
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“Wayne still has ambitions to become a coach.
“But, like Gary Neville, it could end up with him building a more successful and lucrative career as a pundit rather than a country manager.”
Rooney’s family arrive at Old Trafford for the game against Newcastle
Before taking the Argyle job, Rooney worked as a pundit on a number of channels.
He would regularly discuss and review England and Manchester United matches.
He also appeared regularly alongside Gary Neville, Jamie Carragher, Ian Wright and Roy Keane in The Overlap.
Rooney left Championship side Plymouth by mutual consent on Tuesday.
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Wazza has already proven himself as a TV expert Credit: AFP
Wayne Rooney’s record career
WAYNE Rooney took the football world by storm when he made his Everton debut in 2002.
He soon became the club’s youngest scorer at 16 years and 342 days, and the BBC named him the young sports person of the year.
The forward joined Manchester United in 2004 and spent 13 years at Old Trafford. He made 559 appearances for the Red Devils and scored 253 goals. To this day, he is still the club’s all-time top scorer.
After a spell with United, Rooney returned to Everton for a season. He also spent one season at DC United and Derby County at the end of his career.
In addition to his impressive club career, Rooney is also England’s second top scorer with 53 goals in 120 appearances, behind only Harry Kane.
After hanging up his football boots, the English icon turned to a managerial career.
He took over Derby County in 2020 and managed to almost save the club from relegation from the Championship at the end of his first season.
However, as Derby were stripped of 21 points in the following campaign, he was unable to maintain them again and left.
Then came a 15-month spell at the helm of MLS side DC United. He failed to impress during his time in Washington and parted ways with the club at the end of the 2023 regular season.
Rooney controversially landed the Birmingham job in October 2023, replacing John Eustace with the club doing well and sitting sixth in the Championship table.
However, in 15 games, he experienced nine defeats and achieved only two victories. He was sacked in January 2024 and Birmingham dropped to 20th place. The club was relegated to League One at the end of the campaign.
He returned to management in May with Plymouth Argyle but managed just five wins in 25 games. The United legend now finds himself out of a job again.
The 39-year-old former England captain has overseen just four league wins and suffered 13 defeats in 23 Championship games since taking charge of the Pilgrims in May.
He leaves with a club that is at the bottom of the division.
Rooney arrived at Home Park four months after being sacked by Birmingham City following an 83-day spell that saw them lose nine games in 15 games.
He and his players were booed after Sunday’s 2-0 defeat at Oxford United – their sixth defeat in a nine-match winless run that began at the start of November.
Rooney defiantly said he didn’t take the criticism “personally” after that defeat.
But it was enough to end the tenure of a man who was hailed as “the perfect candidate to deliver an exciting and attacking brand of football” when he was appointed.
Under Rooney – who set records for both England and Manchester United during his award-winning playing career – Plymouth slumped to the bottom of the table, scored the joint fewest goals in the second division and conceded more than any other club in England’s top four divisions.
Assistant head coach Mike Phelan and first team coach Simon Ireland have also left the club.
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