Wayne Rooney was offered two jobs after being sacked by Birmingham City

Wayne Rooney is reportedly wanted by Sky Sports and TNT Sports as a senior pundit ahead of next season’s Premier League campaign – but the former Birmingham City manager is still hoping to make a return to the bench.

Rooney was sacked by the Blues on New Year’s Day after winning just two of his 15 games in charge, having taken over from John Eustace in October when the club were in the play-offs. His disastrous tenure was cut short before he was allowed to address failings in the transfer window, following a comprehensive defeat at Leeds United.

Since then, Rooney has remained in the public eye in one way or another; he appeared as a pundit for Sky and TNT as well as the BBC, who also chose him to appear on Match of the Day before a back injury suffered while on holiday with his family took its toll. make him fall. Rooney has also signed up to appear on The Overlap podcast with his former teammates Gary Neville and Roy Keane.

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It has clearly left a lasting impression on the broadcast companies, the Premier League rights holders who share – alongside Amazon Prime – the rights to televise top-flight football in the UK, as according to The Sun , the two big companies want to recruit him at a higher level. permanently before the 2024-25 campaign.

Getting into expertise in a more hands-on arrangement than before would involve following his former teammates, such as Neville, Keane, Paul Scholes, Rio Ferdinand and Owen Hargreaves, among others, on camera to offer match analysis. But Rooney – who will need a club to take a chance on after his miserable tenure with the Blues – remains keen to return to management.

Prior to the Blues, Rooney had worked as a coach at DC United in the MLS, while he also worked as a player and then head coach at Derby County in the Championship in 2021-22.

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