Jags backs Roo
PHIL JAGIELKA believes the difficult job Wayne Rooney had at Derby would stand him in good stead if he was appointed as Everton’s new boss.
Rooney is among the contenders after Frank Lampard was sacked, with former Leeds manager Marcelo Bielsa the favourite.
Former Toffee Jagielka admits he hates to see his old club languishing in the drop zone.
Jagielka played alongside Rooney at Goodison Park and under him at Derby.
Rooney, 37, was unable to keep Derby in the Championship, but made a promising start to management despite the Rams being engulfed in off-field problems.
He then took charge at DC United, where he is preparing for the new MLS season.
But Jagielka reckons Rooney could be tempted to return to Everton where he starred as a teenager from 20022004 before his move to Manchester United.
Jagielka, speaking to Sky Bet, added: “Wayne Rooney knows enough about Everton to do his best, only time will tell.
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OWNERS appoint managers but it’s results that get them sacked.
It’s why England’s footballing centurions have often been given one or two chances at football management but seldom three and never four.
Highly-skilled individuals, team players, ambassadors and leaders. It just so happens that the greatest players that England have ever produced have an appalling track record when it comes to management.
Now Frank Lampard possibly has one last chance to prove himself to be the exception to the rule — however celebrated he was as a player.
Capped
Nine players have been capped 100 times for the Three Lions and most have had the sort of glittering, lead-by-example careers that might single them out for managerial success.
David Beckham and Ashley Cole have never bothered — at
STEVEN GERRARD WON the Scottish League title at Rangers during his spell (2018-21).
Moved to Aston Villa but sacked after 40 games in October 2022.
GARY NEVILLE
IN A spell away from TV punditry, he was manager of Valencia (2015-16).
Sacked after just 28 games. least not in the direct line of fire.
Peter Shilton, Bobby Charlton and Billy Wright each had a single stint with Plymouth, Preston and Arsenal respectively.
Wayne Rooney and Steven Gerrard have so far each had two goes only.
Bobby Moore had three attempts, but all of them were ill-fated, at Oxford City, Eastern AA in Hong Kong and Southend United.
When Lampard is offered another job he will become the most capped player since Bryan Robson to be given more than three lives.
His trio of spells at Derby, Chelsea and Everton had enough moments of triumph to ensure that. But he may have to swallow some pride and drop down a division — and the pressure seems on him to really make this one count.
WAYNE ROONEY MANAGED Derby for 85 games from 2020-22 but resigned after club were relegated to League One having spent most of season in adminsration. Currently head coach at DC United in the
MLS.
SOL CAMPBELL TWO spells as boss at Macclesfield amounted to
Management, you see, is so much different from wearing a shirt with pride, clapping your hands encouragingly and leading by example.
There are dark arts, too, which so often enable canny lesser talents to become the most successful managers of all.
Concerns
He is eloquent, educated and experienced in the game, but there are big concerns about other key elements that go into making a winning gaffer.
There are doubts about his man-management, even if the transfer embargo at Stamford Bridge enabled him to spend 13 months boy-managing.
It was all, though, put into rather stark context when
Thomas
Tuchel eight wins and 12 draws in 30 games. Left the financiallytroubled club in 2019.
Managed Southend for 23 games before June 2020 exit.
JOHN TERRY SERVED as assistant to Dean Smith at Aston Villa (201821).
PAUL SCHOLES HAS been co-owner of Salford came in and showed what was really possible with the squad at Lampard’s disposal.
His early achievements in plotting Derby’s route to the 2019 Championship play-off final were heavily bank-rolled and he was able to jump ship at just the right time.
Now Everton has been something of a car crash from start to finish — undeniably not of Lampard’s making but certainly not of his repairing either.
Those handing out the jobs are only starstruck so many times.
Eventually, they want the man who served under Jose Mourinho, Harry Redknapp, Carlo Ancelotti and Guus Hiddink and picked up their lessons. TV punditry is there to pick up those that just haven’t learned. since 2014. Stepped in as caretaker boss for two short spells in 2015 and 2020..and managed Oldham for seven games in 2019 before resigning
ASHLEY COLE WORKED under Lampard at Derby, Chelsea and Everton and left Goodison Park this week. Was also England Under-21 assistant coach.