Wazza

[crodonilson]

Wayne Rooney or 'Wazza' as he is known in the game. Says he wants to become a manager when he hangs up his boots. Do you think he'd make a good manager?

 

[Prince Monolulu]

....of McDonald's, yes.

 

[Petee]

@Dr No

 

[Dr. No]

Wayne Rooney or 'Wazza' as he is known in the game. Says he wants to become a manager when he hangs up his boots. Do you think he'd make a good manager?

@Dr No

No.

 

[garrybrown]

No

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[Herr Tubthumper]

He doesn't seem to be the sharpest tool in the box. No.

 

[GT49er]

Wayne Rooney or 'Wazza' as he is known in the game. Says he wants to become a manager when he hangs up his boots. Do you think he'd make a good manager?

Not an obvious choice. Doesn't seem like the type - but who knows?

 

[Joey Jo Jo Jr. Shabadoo]

He appears to be slowly morphing into Phil Mitchell.

 

[bn1&bn3 Albion]

Maybe it's just in front of the camera but he doesn't seem very comfortable talking in interviews and comes across a bit too quiet.

 

[Murray 17]

Maybe it's just in front of the camera but he doesn't seem very comfortable talking in interviews and comes across a bit too quiet.

Didn't Roy Hodgson say words to this effect, when naming him England captain?

 

[bn1&bn3 Albion]

Didn't Roy Hodgson say words to this effect, when naming him England captain?

No idea, Roy was so dull his interviews put me to sleep..

 

[Murray 17]

No idea, Roy was so dull his interviews put me to sleep..

Yes, what a dynamic pair they were!

 

[Tom Hark Preston Park]

....of Spud-U-Like, yes.

Fixed that for you

 

[AmexRuislip]

If he was manager of a Sussex club that had a huge elderly female populous, then he'd be laughing

 

[joeinbrighton]

Job to say. My feeling is that he might be in the Mark Hughes kind of bracket where he will get a lot of out of his players initially because of the respect players have for him as a footballer, but perhaps as he goes on, he will get to a certain position where he finds his level.

From what you read, he is quite a lively, vocal presence in the dressing room, so you imagine that he won't have any problems getting his point across. It's whether he has the emotional intelligence of knowing when to push certain players' buttons and whether he has the tactical acumen that makes or breaks how far he could go as a manager. Also, how much he wants to succeed at it. After all, given the wealth he has accumulated from the game, it is not as though he "needs" to become a manager, so if he does go into management, it will be because he has a desire to make a success of it.

 

[The Birdman]

Manager of CPFC

 

[Cheshire Cat]

Good players rarely make good managers (with some exceptions). He'll probably end up on the punditry circuit, boring for Britain.

 

[Icy Gull]

I thought this was about Warren Aspinall and I would have said yes but as it's about Shrek it's a resounding No from me. He could always join up with Ryan Giggs. The Dream Team for insomniacs

 

[joeinbrighton]

Good players rarely make good managers (with some exceptions).

I'm not sure that's particularly true any more. Certainly, if you look at the Premier League managers right now, all of the following used to be good players and haven't disgraced themselves as managers:

Ronald Koeman
Mauricio Pochettino
Slaven Bilic
Pep Guardiola
Mark Hughes
Antonio Conte

And then in the Championship, all of these guys could play and have not disgraced themselves as manager, save for the odd setback:
Chris Hughton
Jaap Stam
Paul Lambert
Nigel Clough
Steve Bruce

Monk and Jokanovic had decent playing careers too without being particularly top drawer, but still played a lot of top flight matches.

You're always going to get slightly more managers who didn't have a great playing career because their playing career will have ended earlier and so they need a second income, whereas the top players stay on playing for longer and possibly then don't get round to doing their coaching badges until later. But I'd say there are a few more managers at the top end of the game these days who have a good playing career behind them.

 

[Mackenzie]

Surely 'Wazza' is Warren Aspinall?

As for Rooney, someone would employ him as a manager if he wanted to go down that route. Who knows how good he'd be at it.