Wayne Rooney speaks out on being SACKED by Birmingham City

Sacked Wayne Rooney has admitted he underperformed as Birmingham City supervisor however believes he wasn’t given sufficient time to make an influence.

The former England ahead was fired on Tuesday after solely 13 weeks within the job following a horrible run of 9 defeats in 15 video games in cost.

Rooney, 38, stated ‘it’s going to take me a while to recover from this setback’ and plans to spend time with spouse Coleen and their youngsters as he appears to be like for his subsequent job.

In a press release, he stated: ‘I wish to thank Tom Wagner, Tom Brady and Garry Cook for the chance to handle Birmingham City FC and the help all of them gave me throughout my brief interval with the membership.

‘Football is a outcomes enterprise – and I recognise they haven’t been on the degree I needed them to be. However, time is probably the most treasured commodity a supervisor requires and I don’t consider 13 weeks was enough to supervise the adjustments that had been wanted.

Wayne Rooney was sacked as Birmingham City supervisor on Tuesday following a poor run

Rooney stated he plans to spend time with spouse Coleen and kids Kai, Klay, Kit and Cass 

Since Rooney arrived, Birmingham have fallen from the play-off spots to a relegation battle

NFL legend Tom Brady (left) is one among Birmingham’s minority house owners after the membership was taken over by Tom Wagner’s Knighthead Group in July

‘Personally, it’s going to take me a while to recover from this setback. I’ve been concerned in skilled soccer, as both a participant or supervisor, since I used to be 16. 

‘Now, I plan to take a while with my household as I put together for the following alternative in my journey as a supervisor.

‘Finally, I want Birmingham City FC and its house owners my finest needs within the pursuit of their ambitions.’

Since Rooney changed John Eustace in October, Birmingham have had the worst file within the Championship. They took 10 factors from a potential 45, shedding 9 and successful simply two.

The futures of fellow employees members Ashley Cole, John O’Shea, and Pete Shuttleworth was being resolved this on Tuesday morning.

Rooney had vowed to struggle on after Monday’s 3-0 defeat at Leeds however employees had been known as to a gathering on the membership’s coaching floor on Tuesday after they had been knowledgeable that Rooney can be sacked.

The choice to nominate Rooney will certainly go down as one of many worst within the historical past of the membership.

When he was appointed in October to exchange Eustace, Birmingham had been sixth. He leaves with Blues solely six factors above the relegation zone and with the worst file within the division throughout that point.

Rooney is unveiled as Birmingham’s new supervisor on October 12 – however his tenure is now over

Mail Sport understands Eustace can be open to returning to Birmingham however it appears extremely unlikely that they’d select to reappoint him after already being pressured right into a such humiliating climbdown over Rooney.

This was Rooney ‘s third job in administration. After spells with Derby within the Championship and DC United in Major League Soccer, he was introduced again to England charged with bringing a ‘no-fear’ soccer philosophy to Birmingham. 

Blues had been taken over by an American consortium Knighthead final summer time, a bunch of which NFL nice Tom Brady can also be a component.

But the Rooney experiment has been massively embarrassing from begin to end and the credibility of the brand new house owners will relaxation on what they do subsequent.

Rooney’s long-term future in administration now seems unclear.