It's so bizarre that Birmingham employed him. This was the most 100% guaranteed outcome in football history. Literally every single person on Earth thought he'd be rubbish and get sacked. It's such an odd appointment.

@willmunny9279

5 ай бұрын

Not everyone. Very small minority of Blues' fans who thought that Eustace was useless and Wayne was the answer. Good god.

@CB-xr1eg

5 ай бұрын

@@willmunny9279 If Wayne is the answer, what the f*ck is the question??

@l2dacreborn830

5 ай бұрын

​@@CB-xr1eg😂😂😂

@Charl250

5 ай бұрын

@ShaunLevett I am a villa fan and I even said to my brother and my dad who are the blues fans you have just appointed Wayne Rooney, Good Luck he will get you relgated and he always has if it wasnt got Huddersfield keep losing, even they werent shocked by blues loosing game after game after Rooney said his mission is to get blues promoted and be in the Premier League first time round after that it was always going to go downhill. But my dad and brother said Rooney will get then relgated and why they appointed him in the first place when they weren't too bad and in the play offs🤯🤯 and they want Rowett back. Never know Birmingham can get Lampard now😂 but Birmingham City wanted a big name and backfired

@CB-xr1eg

5 ай бұрын

@@Charl250 SOTV.

Finally Manchester United can sack Ten Hag and appoint Rooney. It’s a match made in heaven.

@bobbypukes605

5 ай бұрын

They've been linked with Southgate too!

@CB-xr1eg

5 ай бұрын

Been saying that, I hope it happens.

@nathanmoore7120

5 ай бұрын

Imagine….. Man U appointing Southgate would be good for the nations morale. Imagine the laughs we will all have watching Southgates team selection. You know Southgates first signing would be Henderson!😂😂😂

@ngqabuthodube2068

5 ай бұрын

😂😂😂😂😂😂

@josephkerrigan733

5 ай бұрын

@@bobbypukes605 There's nothing I want more in the entire world than Manchester United appointing Gareth Southgate to save them. He could finally get to see Maguire in action in the premier league instead of just with England.

Just listen to Rooney speak. Who interviews him and thinks he can manage a squad of players? Yet again we've proved kicking a ball about well doesn't make you a good manager.

@akashpaul6891

5 ай бұрын

lol mourinho never kicked a ball 😅😅

@nightowl7459

5 ай бұрын

​@@akashpaul6891Proof that you don't need to be a ex-player to be a good manager.

@rhys2040

5 ай бұрын

Never works. Carrick looks ok. But Lampard Gerrard Scholes Neville list goes on.

@akashpaul6891

5 ай бұрын

@@rhys2040 judge carrick when he wins a league

@akerfeldt4068

5 ай бұрын

He literally has a vocabulary range of about 15 words.

John Eustace must be pissing himself laughing

When Rooney left DC United they finished 13th. They’re now joint 1st 😳

Gerrard, Lampard, Rooney... The 'golden generation' as players...the golden shower as football managers...

@user-qx3eb2jx1p

5 ай бұрын

Gerrard won a league title and achieved decent results in Europe for Rangers.

@JamesWilsonMD

5 ай бұрын

​@@user-qx3eb2jx1pThe SPL is an even bigger joke and worse football then the Saudi Pro League lmfao. It's a complete irrelevance when it comes to commercial football. 😂😂

@CB-xr1eg

5 ай бұрын

@@user-qx3eb2jx1p For Rangers, in a 2 team league where you just have to finish above Celtic. What happened when he moved south to manage Villa?

@minnielee3399

5 ай бұрын

Look at the transformation of Villa when Emery came in. 😄 @@CB-xr1eg

@jtbonchek2able

5 ай бұрын

​@minnielee3399 Gerrard signed a few names at Villa that stuck.. Kamara and Diego Carlos. Overall though Gerrard was running Villa into the ground and had to go.

Rooney, Lampard, Gerard. Great players, but just like everyone else, they need to coach at a lower level and work their way up. It’s actually more damaging to a new manager to just give them a managerial role at a big football club. Don’t blame the manager though. Blame the people that run the club.

@wheeldesire

5 ай бұрын

He has managed at a lower level?

@CB-xr1eg

5 ай бұрын

@@wheeldesire Yes but not successfully. Watch him rock up at man utd when they sack Ten Hag. 🤣

@multipl3

5 ай бұрын

At least Gerard won a league once

@MathewParker-by4nx

5 ай бұрын

All this learning your trade at a lower level is utter nonsense. You can either manage and motivate people or you can’t. It’s not something you can learn.

@billdoor3140

5 ай бұрын

To be fair Rooney has consistently tried to take teams to the lower levels to manage them...

Steve Cooper will have you in the playoffs before the end of the season, give him a ring

@joescott5322

5 ай бұрын

He won’t the squad isn’t good enough nowhere near

@crosscounty24

5 ай бұрын

Steve Cooper is a premier league now , Crystal Palace should call him.

@ejc636

5 ай бұрын

What a joke

@Bluejohn

5 ай бұрын

I don't think he would answer the phone.

@eric934

5 ай бұрын

BCFC is a poison chalice for any manager. A graveyard of careers. The zombie of the EFL. Steve Cooper would have to be clinically insane to take them on. Mind you, I said the same about Rooney.

Worst appointment in football history The bloke can't string a sentence together never mind manage a club

@bobbypukes605

5 ай бұрын

I think you've been watching too much Darren Farley pal. When you hear Rooney speak, he's actually fairly articulate. It's just that wimpy little voice he's got (along with the constant 'uhms').

@dave-jk6en

5 ай бұрын

erm

@user-wk2fj3lc1g

5 ай бұрын

@@bobbypukes605exactly mate he can't string a sentence together without pausing and stuttering and ermmming. Dunno who Farley is?

@Hawkins123

5 ай бұрын

@@bobbypukes605you’ve got to be taking the piss?

@billdoor3140

5 ай бұрын

​@bobbypukes605 "erm , erm I think we looked great for the first 35 seconds erm , erm "

I feel bad for the Birmingham City fans, players and staff. For the owners and/or chairman, this is what they get for how they treated John Eustace, a perfectly good manager who had gotten them to 5th place and had done nothing wrong

@thomasoflaherty3520

5 ай бұрын

6th

@ianmckenzie2680

5 ай бұрын

You know what? I don’t 😢

@9k49

5 ай бұрын

@@thomasoflaherty3520 According to wikipedia it was 5th, but either way very good (a play-off position)

@9k49

5 ай бұрын

@@ianmckenzie2680 ?

@Lionboy2930

5 ай бұрын

Spot on...

As bizarre as it sounds the best way to rectify this is to try and get Eustace to come back. He is still under contract at Birmingham. Everybody could try and pretend the whole thing didn't happen.

@robertsellers9359

5 ай бұрын

He knows the players, their strengths and weakness's and can hit the ground running and steady the rot but probably no chance of that happening..

@darrenlee9237

5 ай бұрын

BCFC should apologise to John Eustace, invite his reappointment and bump up his salary. The Birmingham board should eat a bit of humble pie and admit they got it wrong.

@moggpiano8043

5 ай бұрын

No. Eustace was never going to maintain the top six position. New manager and a few, at least new players, is necessary.

@darrenlee9237

5 ай бұрын

Would you have written-off Eustace before he got them into the play-off places? Is he incapable of getting Brum back into promotion contention with new players, the board's backing and a few quid behind him?

@Midori_Ringo

5 ай бұрын

Yeah but does Eustace want to come back? I mean the team is in freefall, 14 points behind a playoff spot, I'd imagine morale is in the toilet and there will be no trust with the board. He comes back and he's on a hiding to nothing. He gets relegated he'll be sacked and has that on his resume. He keeps them up it's almost guaranteed he'll never be backed by the board. He better negotiate a hefty termination clause and significant transfer funds to even think about it

It was bad decision from the start. The team was play-off bound. Now someone has to clean up the mess and try to salvage what's left of the season.

Been looking forward to Simon's reaction all morning 🤣😅😁

As a villa fan I loved him shame he’s gone

More proof, if it was ever needed, that being a football player and being a football manager are two very different skills…

Birmingham city deserve where they are....the whole footballing world have said what would happen since day 1 they put rooney as manager

I'm a villa fan & even I was baffled to why they got rid of John Eustace when they were 6th & playing well. Rooney joins and after 15 games they have dropped 14 places. Did they not see his record with Derby & D.C United

What a state our game is in these days, MONEY will eventually DESTROY it. People who are running these clubs, have no clue on football whatsoever. Just a business enterprise with an instant success attitude! Becoming too Americanized I’m afraid. VAR, OVERPRICED PLAYERS, the great game has left us, no MORALS or VALUES, and the fans will be the ones who SUFFER. 🤔🙏🏻🙏🏻

@delboy013

5 ай бұрын

Too late, it's already destroyed

@ACshinealight

5 ай бұрын

Money destroyed football long ago

Rooney in charge of the mens Utd team and Giggs in charge of the womens Utd team, what could go wrong.

'Wayne the manager is Wayne the manager' - more incredible insight from Jim

@MarknoblesAcidhouseparty

5 ай бұрын

as apposed to wayne the player .....

@ruddock7

5 ай бұрын

The Scottish goblin!!

@66Viscount

5 ай бұрын

Jim White……..don’t start me off on that subject.

Rooney to United, Neville for Assistant and Scholes for Sporting director

@loudmouthdiaries5188

5 ай бұрын

United for relegation

This lad is not a manager…. He’s a brand, he’s an ex player who’s trying to stay within the game and follow a trend of newly retired players chancing their arms at management….. like a lot has already said, go and be part of a coaching staff and spend time learning or take over reserve teams etc and start a career

Is Jim White incapable of just talking? The 🔔 shouts EVERYTHING

The person who appointed Rooney in place of Eustace needs to be sacked as well.

@stephenbutler6819

5 ай бұрын

That would be our ceo then

@stephenbutler6819

5 ай бұрын

Not the owner however he would of green lighted it

It's shocking that Birmingham even went in for Rooney in the first place tbh. It was such a bizarre appointment that it was never gonna work. I mean at where they were before Rooney came in compared to now. Enough said

@gazof-the-north5708

5 ай бұрын

Biggest joke is - He'll go home to Coleen and the kids with a nice big pay off.........

Steve Cooper is the fans choice for the majority including myself its a perfect fit going forward creating an instant positive atmosphere the players will also get behind his man management style as he would play them to their strengths BCFC make it happen.. KRO

@brenb70

5 ай бұрын

Why would Cooper lower himself to Blues? 😂

@rickygray448

5 ай бұрын

Because Steve Cooper is simply an option for Crystal Palace as i believe that Graham Potter is the favourite why be an option one one club when your wanted needed and respected by a club that has future ambition and has one of the best fan bases in the league.

Just remember him as a great player

@adamg8814

5 ай бұрын

Ennit! James Cook is the main culprit

What were they smoking when they offered Rooney the job? Whoever was involved in this ludicrous decision needs to be held accountable.

What about Diane Abbott for Birmingham manager she ticks alot of the boxes ,that employers are looking for today

As an Englishman in the US, Rooney was horrible at DC United. There has never been any indication that he can actually manage, yet look at all the opportunities he is getting. See also: Lampard, Gerrard, and the Nevilles.

Don't worry, the media will make sure their darling's image doesn't get tattered.. They'll cover him with some blanket of pathetic excuses "he's been sick ever since he took on the job that's why his tactical mind hasn't been fully unleashed"

@tevildo45

5 ай бұрын

They treat English managers with kid gloves

@environm3ntalist549

5 ай бұрын

😂 you really don’t know English media…we love to destroy our own

@eL--RaL

5 ай бұрын

​@@environm3ntalist549YEAH RIGHT!!! Who do you think you are fooling?? 😂😂😂😂

@jonnyhull7860

5 ай бұрын

​@@eL--RaLfor once i agree with 😂😂

I don't blame Rooney, he was offered the job and he took it, the blame rests entirely to my mind on Gary Cooke , who must have recommended Rooney for the job despite his mediocre record. Bringing John Eustace back wouldn't cost the club anything as he is still under contract

Give it to John Eustace until the end of the season.......

Rooney is as much use as an ashtray on a motorbike

Gary Cook was behind Rooneys transfer request at United to join Man City

Apologise to Eustace, beg him to come back and give him a pay rise for his troubles.

@twatinahatsmith7428

5 ай бұрын

I can see the sentiment, but the club doesn't seem to think he is the man to take them forward, otherwise they wouldn't have sacked him in the first place. They made a mistake and going back to the same person would be another mistake, if they don't believe he can make the club progress like they envisage.

As a Liverpool fan, I was happy to see that he was being exposed as a manager but on the other hand I really feel for your club. John Eustace 2.0 at the club now?! I hope you get a better manager or get him back for the sake of your club. Wishing you luck.

Steve Cooper wont go to that clown show of a football club.

It's not difficult what manager we need next. One with Championship experience at the top and the bottom, one who knows how to set a team up and preferably one who has got a team promoted out of the division.

Lampard….Gerrard…now Rooney 😬 these owners really can’t be so naive to think that once great players will make decent coaches 🤔 fools and their money….😂😂😂

Wonder how many more clubs will fall victim to his tricks?

Would love rooney to come on talksport to have a chat with simon Jordan... That discussion would go off 😂😂

Bring back the original manager?

Couldn't trust him with a transfer window. Are Birmingham close enough to the relegation places for Warnock to come in?

I feel bad for Wayne, because I think he is probably better than people give him credit for. I would suggest he takes up coaching instead perhaps.. I am sure he has the passion/experience to be a top coach.

"He must have interviewed well" If he was interviewed at all.

Great players don't often become good managers..... happy new year Wayne 👍

Well I was wrong, I thought they would give him until the summer but they quickly found out Wayne couldn't run a tap. No disrespect to a top player for United and England but he hasn't the nous or IQ, or even a personality to inspire players to burst a gut for the cause. He joins other journeymen managers like Gerrard, Lampard, Bruce, Hughes who havn't got what it takes. Did Wayne ever get his FA coaching badges? Where Wayne comes from he would be more familiar with an ASBO badge !

It's a shame that these ex players don't go through a proper football education, look at klopp, wenger and hodgson they all started at lower clubs and worked there way up, Rooney should have started in the 3rd or 4th division, away from scrutiny instead he went gun ho all the whoile lacking basic skills!

@HardlyQuinn

5 ай бұрын

Klopp, Wenger and.... Hodgson? 😂🤣 one of these things is not like the others!

@pahakuutti

5 ай бұрын

Rooney needs to coach at an academy because that's his level. Only strikers tho. Never allow him to coach any defenders again.

@eric934

5 ай бұрын

​@@HardlyQuinnClearly you know nothing about Hodgson's history. Taking Inter Milan to the UEFA Cup final, winning 5 consecutive titles with Malmö, and being manager of 4 international teams in his long career to name but a few. He might be nearer the end of his career now, but he's still a manager in the PL. I suggest you check a few historical facts before you embarrass yourself with your ignorance next time.

Only few great players make great managers instantly. Brian Clough is an excellent example. But he was clever and knew how to get the best out of average players. Dalglish relied heavily on the Liverpool players he inherited but did buy some great players in his time Barnes Beardsley Shearer

Steve Bruce if he is still open to managing.. good firm pair of hands till end of season?

Manchester United s next manager

Soon as I heard he was going to blues manager I shook my head and said we're doomed, he was over rated as a player scoring 1 goal in 3 world cups as our main sticker and he's worse as a so called manger his name got him where he is not his ability

@CB-xr1eg

5 ай бұрын

main *sticker*??

@nathanmoore7120

5 ай бұрын

Rooney over rated!!!??? Have you seen his numbers for Man U? Are you living o. Planet earth mate? Rooney is thick but so are Birmingham City fans! They are a match made in heaven! I don’t know what it is but every Blues fan I have met comes across as thick as two short planks. It’s strange because the Villa fans I have met seem to be intelligent and just generally great people! The clever brummies support Villa and the backwards people support blues 🤣😂🤣😂🤣

The daftest decision was to sack a manager who had them in fourth place and put a person with no management experience and now they are 19th

@CB-xr1eg

5 ай бұрын

They were 5th or maybe 6th when Rooney got the job but not 4th.

Wayne’s objective destroy the club and leave 😂

@paulcarter6146

5 ай бұрын

I'm gutted he.s bean sacked 😂😂

I rarely agree with Simon Jordan but for once I totally concur. I don't blame Rooney, he was not up to the job but he clearly thinks he is capable, and of course he was going to take the job when it was offered. Cook, as the CEO should have known Rooney was not up to the job and never appointed him. I no longer have faith in Cook, Tom Wagner has done all he is capable of to restore the club but the man with day to day control of the club is debatably not up to it.

I'm suprised he lasted so long! Michael Carrick he ain't.

Gary Cook is definitely a goose. What an embarrassing joke of a ceo he is. And I don’t want to hear former player pundits giving every excuse under the sun for Rooney not working out there. It’s clear to see that he can’t coach. Full stop.

As a Villa fan I hope Blues make the right appointment next, someone else who will take them down 😂😂😂😂😂

Get in Roy Keane

Rooney"s 40 wins from 146 games (26%) makes him unemployable now, no club will take the risk hiring him , not even the Dog & Duck Second Eleven.

@user-kh9ql7si6g

5 ай бұрын

We do need a kit man, if he's interested??

@ChronicTheHempHog-mf3nh

5 ай бұрын

Wrexham 🤔

I'm gutted I thought he was doing an amazing job. UTV🦁🤣🦁😂!!!!

Has Cook apologised for the decision to sign him

This was always going to happen John Eustace was overarching before Wayne turned up

Agent Wayne was doing an excellent job at Birmingham and it's a sad day to see him go

Mourinho, Klopp & Benitez were average to mediocre as players, but that never stopped them from succeeding as managers. On the contrary, a smart and articulate character with a great playing CV in Vincent Kompany is stuck in a relegation fight at Burnley.

Best news ever 😁 Thanks Wayne for f**king our season up we'll done

A ludicrous appointment. They sacked someone who had them in 6th place. Now they have got what they deserve. (Perhaps Steve Cooper is a possible replacement?).

It seems to me as a total neutral that Birmingham City FC is and has been a dark dismal club for several years.

I think Birmingham were actually 5th when he took over. Either way it’s a crazy decision to sack a manager in Eustace when flying

Rooney for England manager !

Birmingham now should go for Klopp or ask Ferguson to come out of retirement. Who wouldn't want to come to this European titan.

As a Swindon fan, I hope he manages Oxford next🤣

@martinnewtonholmes

5 ай бұрын

That`s just evil

Imagine employing someone because he is your mate and it turns out the be the worst appointment and it costing your employers millions to fix. If I was the owners id be questioning Cooks appointment and id be looking for another CEO, the reason why he wanted to stick with Rooney is because its already cost millions to sack the previous manager and he didnt want egg on his face with the owners. If I was the owners id say Wayne Rooney is your appointment and we will be expecting you to pay the rest of his contract off out of your own money, employing your mates on someone elses dime, the balls on this guy...

Great players don't necessarily make great managers. Gerrard, Lampard and Rooney have shown that. I wouldn't have thought Rooney has the right temperament for management. A manager has to be shrewd and capable of motivating players. That doesn't sound like Rooney.

The board deserve everything they get. They were stupud sacking Eustace.

why did they even hire him ahaha they were doing so well before.

Bring him in at United Sir Jimmy

Eustace followed by Useless

Forget the apology Cook now it’s your turn to resign just autograph hunting

I agree,it was madness. Total madness.

Should have ridden off into the sunset when his playing days ended. It’s not like he needs the money. If he carries on he will just be remembered as a failed manager/coach and not the great player that he was.

Aren't the best managers usually the ones who played in midfield and were grinding it out, and were not exactly the biggest stars out there? But why sack a manager who was sitting so high up the table. They only got what they deserved. Just wait when they appoint Lampard next.

If it’s true that they sacked the manager who had them in 6th to the relegation zone with Rooney, then the owner, director etc need to take 💯 accountability and should also go. Embarrassing decisions at every level

Rooney to take over Man Utd

@martinnewtonholmes

5 ай бұрын

I think we`d all love that

Simon how many chances does Rooney needs ?? As a manager the guy is a disaster

Another example of great players not making good managers. When will clubs learn?

Rooney is proper eustace🥁

Gary Cook hoodwinked the new owners to take Rooney on, hopefully they won’t be mugged off so easily in the future.

Damn no more Rooney in an American football helmet on Farley TV....

Great job for Steve Cooper

Gerrard, Lampard n now Rooney...great players didn’t mean they would be great coaches!!! They just have to start learning it from e basic in coaching!!!

Beg for John Eustace to come back ;-)

Gerrard or lumphard next.

Graham potter would be a decent appointment for city kind of project he likes too

Can hear Robbie Fowlers CV getting posted through the letter box.

sounds like they'll go for Lampard or Gerrard!

6th to 20th lmaoooooooo Roney is only getting jobs like Gerrard cus of his playing name. Why can't they judge people by their managing roles both are AWFUL

@relax9674

5 ай бұрын

As horrific as he was at least gerrard won something!

@CB-xr1eg

5 ай бұрын

@@relax9674 "as" he was not "has". As for Gerrard winning something, yes in a 2 team farmers league. He couldn't do it in the PL, he looked lost and way out of his depth.

@relax9674

5 ай бұрын

@CB-xr1eg lol thanks for that and i agree but hes done it and you cant take that away from him.

Steve Coopers home number begins with 01159.

I can't believe that any football club owner/CEO in their right mind could hire someone like Wayne Rooney. [what is this obsession with 'ex-players' - and that they will suddenly become accomplished managers?!?] Lampard, Gerrard and Rooney are utterly inept - yet some clubs are still prepared to 'gamble' on them! I obviously don't know Wayne Rooney personally, but he always comes across to me has an extremely poor 'communicator'. [ie: he can't string a coherent sentence together]. I would have thought that this is an essential skillset for any manager. However, the single most glaring takeaway from Rooney's appointment [and subsequent sacking] is that Rooney's incompetence is only surpassed by that of Birmingham City's CEO.