Wayne Rooney lined up for shock return to management with SIXTH-TIER side six months after Plymouth axe
The former England ace was
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Wayne Rooney is a shock target for non-league side Macclesfield
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Robbie Savage led the club to the Northern Premier League title last season
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Rooney left the Pilgrims bottom of the Championship after a dismal seven-month spell.
The 39-year-old won just 5 of his 25 games in charge at Home Park.
Plymouth were eventually
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But he is being eyed by Forest Green Rovers, with Nixon claiming Rooney is on the club's radar should Savage leave.
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Savage joined last summer and has won 40 of his 51 games in charge.
Since leaving Plymouth, Rooney has
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He has since taken the reins at Derby County and Birmingham, before his ill-fated tenure in Devon.
Rooney recently
Wayne Rooney's record-breaking career
WAYNE Rooney took the football world by storm when he made his debut for 2002 with Everton.
He quickly became the club's youngest-ever goalscorer aged 16 years and 342 days and was named the BBC's Young Sports Personality of the Year.
The striker joined Manchester United in 2004 and spent 13 years at Old Trafford. He went on to make 559 appearances for the Red Devils and scored 253 goals. To this day he is still the club's all-time leading goalscorer.
Following his spell with United, Rooney returned to Everton for a season. He also spent one-season stints with D.C. United and Derby County at the end of his career.
As well as his impressive club career, Rooney is also England's second-highest goalscorer with 53 goals in 120 appearances, behind only Harry Kane.
After hanging up his boots, the England icon turned to a career in management.
He took charge of Derby County in 2020 and managed to just about save the club from relegation from the Championship at the end of his first season.
However, with Derby handed a 21-point deduction the following campaign, he was unable to keep them up again and subsequently left.
Then came a 15-month spell in charge of MLS side D.C. 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 was controversially handed the Birmingham job in October 2023, replacing John Eustace with the club doing well and sixth in the Championship table.
However, in 15 games he suffered nine defeats and managed just two wins. He was sacked in January 2024 with Birmingham down in 20th. The club were 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 work once again.
And he refused to be drawn on his immediate future, suggesting punditry was currently his focus.
Rooney said: "Obviously just doing some TV work at the minute, so that's what I'm doing.
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"I'm enjoying it. So, that's where I'll be."
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