Will Wayne Rooney be the great coach he wants to be, at least in the eyes of the English media. The British "Athletic" believes that the 38-year-old Rooney should rest well and at least think about the right time and who he chooses to coach the team. By all indications, Rooney's defeat at Birmingham City was largely due to the fact that he accepted the wrong team at the wrong time. Birmingham City's self-righteous CEO Cook has a lot of responsibility to bear, as he drove away Eustace, who didn't meet his requirements but led the team well, leaving all the trouble to Rooney.
Wayne Rooney has been asked to maintain at least the results of his predecessor while changing the style of the team, which is too difficult for the successor manager. After all, from Derby County to Washington D.C. United, Wayne Rooney has never proven himself capable of leading a team to success. He won just 28.2 percent of the time in Derby County, and dropped to 26.6 percent for Washington D.C. United in the Major League Soccer, finishing bottom of the Eastern Conference. If Major League Soccer had a relegation system, his team would have been relegated. From a coach with no successful resume, being invited by Cook to Birmingham City, which is quite successful, is itself an anomaly that violates the laws of football. By the time Wayne Rooney took over, 10 coaches had been sacked from the Championship, with the remaining nine teams in the bottom half of the table, with the exception of Birmingham City.
The Athletic has expressed a certain optimism about Wayne Rooney's future: because in English football, the aura of successful players will always be favored by club owners, regardless of whether they have a shining resume in their coaching career. But Rooney himself has been hit hard, and he admits it will take some time to overcome the setback. Since starting his professional football career at the age of 16, he has hardly ever taken a break for 22 years. He was a player-coach at Derby County and turned coaching immediately after retiring from the sport. It was only a few weeks between leaving Derby County to coach in North America, and even four days from Washington to Birmingham.
Next, Rooney needs to take a vacation. After a 22-year career, let yourself stop and take a break to really think about what you should do in the future, or continue to coach non-stop, or do you want to look back and restart your playing career? Compared to many of his top stars of the era, Wayne Rooney is a little too eager to succeed in coaching – for fear of being forgotten by the football world, so he needs to find opportunities to continue to prove himself.
For Wayne Rooney, who still wants to be a great coach, it may take half a year or a year to settle down. Now his reputation as a coach is not ideal, but after a while, maybe everything will be different. Wayne Rooney could also use this time to recharge his batteries, learn from the Xi of the truly great coaches, and wait patiently for the right opportunity to return. For the 38-year-old Rooney, what he needs more is time to settle down.