******** it. This one deserves its own thread. DC United and Wayne Rooney have agreed on terms, multiple sources tell me tonight. Rooney, who starred for the club as a player, will be their newest manager. #DCU— Pablo Iglesias Maurer (@MLSist) July 11, 2022
I feel like we need someone with a long term vision for the club and that's probably not Rooney, who will have one eye on England. He should help in the short term but kinda feels like another band aid.
Can Rooney as a player boost the club to a playoff spot? Sure. Can he boost the club as a coach without significant revision of the roster? No. I need to know the financials of all this. Is this part 2 of the Rooney saga where we tie ourselves financially to a gimmick and hamstring ourselves for years to come? Why would Rooney take the job for peanuts? Is the league covering his costs just to get the media boost? If we had money to hire someone of Rooneys stature for the job, why didn't we get a better coach earlier? Is this still Kasper and company's show with recruitment? If not that's good, if yes then we're ********ed.
Losada was a good coach. By the time we discovered he was a poor player manager Rooney was coaching with Derby. He resigned after the point deduction sealed their fate. So it was Ashton until the summer regardless if we were pulling any coaches from Fall>Spring leagues.
Goff reports Rooney will be trying to convince players he knows over in Europe to join United. The big name from that report? Luis Suarez.
The timing of all this is just so weird. We're not going to have Rooney as a meaningful coach for a week or two, but we have a potentially season deciding home game vs. a playoff rival in three days. Are we bringing him in to do a rebuild? If that is the case then great, maybe we'll see improvement to the roster over Winter and into the Summer. The player decisions will decide all of this. Part of me just doesn't believe we're going to give Rooney a budget and player acquisition decisions. Come on... he has offers from Serie A, his home country, and elsewhere. If he comes to MLS, his agent is far too saavy to screw him over like poor Shaqiri at Chicago.
Honestly, instead of hearing about Luis Suarez who is 36 (but would probably score goals since MLS is a joke), it would be great if Rooney could convince players in the 500,000-1,000,000 salary zone to consider coming over and serving as the backbone of the midfield and defense. Maybe get a young guy he sees as a prospect to be a young DP. Maybe push the dead weight out.
I was 100% wrong about bringing Wayne Rooney in as a player. So the fact that I'm pretty excited about bringing Wayne Rooney in as a coach is a bit troubling.
There's a lot of good potential bringing in Rooney as coach and not a lot of downside. The money won't matter (I don't think coach salaries are connected to player salaries?) He clearly brings good culture wherever he goes, and his contacts and gravitas should help with recruiting. And by bringing him in, it may push our ownership to raise their game as well. I'm keeping these rose-colored glasses on because, well, why not?
We need something to cling to now, no matter how flimsy, so why not? I'll give it a go until it crashes and burns, and then see what's next to roll around in the circle game.
Ah, why the hell not? Rooney did a helluva job at Derby County. DCU is an effin' disaster. It's not like Wayne can eff it up any more than it is. He surprised me and seemed to really care when he was here before. I'll give him the benefit of the doubt. But even hiring Pep Effin' Guardiola wouldn't mean much if the front office can't bring in some more talent!
I see it as adding another tourniquet and DCU is running out of limbs to amputate. Besides, DCU hasn't solved the root cause issue which is infusion of cash to purchase better quality DP and high-level non-DP. It's the FO not the coach.
Yes, but i imagine (hope) Wayne will have more of a say than Hernan did. If he tries to hold management accountable it may mean more than Losada doing it. And if not maybe it slowly gets them closer to changing things...or not.
I’m stunned, I can’t believe he would take this job. But here we are. My favorite part of this is not waiting until next season. Let’s face it, this season is going nowhere, so I think it’s a pretty comfortable transition. He can come in and tinker with no pressure to get results right away. I’m super curious how he goes about it. Will he be playing youth, or messing with tactics, or bringing in his coaches, or new transfers? The season just got interesting again, bless him.
I hate to break it to you, but this season is already long over. The keeping Ashton thing is truly baffling. Is that an admission that they gave him nothing to work with? According to what I read this is a long term deal at $1m per.