{"id":293718,"date":"2023-10-09T15:24:32","date_gmt":"2023-10-09T15:24:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sports-life-news.com\/?p=293718"},"modified":"2023-10-09T15:24:32","modified_gmt":"2023-10-09T15:24:32","slug":"wayne-rooney-is-not-a-world-beater-chris-sutton-insists","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sports-life-news.com\/soccer\/wayne-rooney-is-not-a-world-beater-chris-sutton-insists\/","title":{"rendered":"Wayne Rooney is &apos;not a world beater,&apos; Chris Sutton insists"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1>Wayne Rooney is &#8216;not a world beater,&#8217; Chris Sutton insists on It&#8217;s All Kicking Off amid &#8216;madness&#8217; links to Tom Brady&#8217;s managerless Birmingham<\/h1>\n<ul>\n<li><b>Wayne Rooney is tipped to take charge of Birmingham after leaving DC United<\/b><\/li>\n<li><strong>Watch Chris Sutton and Ian Ladyman talk Wayne Rooney&#8217;s managerial career<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Click HERE to listen to the latest episode of Mail Sport&#8217;s &#8216;It&#8217;s All Kicking Off&#8217;\u00a0<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Chris Sutton believes hiring managerial &#8216;rookie&#8217; Wayne Rooney to replace John Eustace would be &#8216;madness&#8217; and pile the pressure on Tom Brady and his fellow Birmingham City owners.<\/p>\n<p>Eustace was sacked on Monday, despite the club sitting sixth in the Championship after an impressive start to the season.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Rooney is tipped to take over following his own departure from DC\u00a0United over the weekend, after the team&#8217;s failure to make the MLS playoffs.<\/p>\n<p>The former England captain was in charge for 15 months but said now he wants to return to the UK to see his family and pursue other avenues.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;Why would you get rid of someone who&#8217;s successful?&#8217; said Mail Sport columnist Sutton.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/10\/09\/15\/76339821-12610627-image-a-21_1696860301383.jpg\" height=\"423\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>Wayne\u00a0Rooney is poised to take over at Birmingham following his departure from DC United<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/10\/09\/15\/76339853-12610627-image-a-23_1696860355249.jpg\" height=\"357\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>&#8216;On the face of it, it does seem like madness to sack John Eustace,&#8217; Chris Sutton said<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/10\/09\/15\/76340335-12610627-image-m-38_1696861308757.jpg\" height=\"422\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>Tom Brady, a seven-time Super Bowl winner, recently became a minority owner in Birmingham<\/p>\n<p>Your browser does not support iframes.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;It&#8217;s not like &#8211; with respect to Wayne Rooney, great playing career &#8211; they&#8217;re bringing in a world beater of a manager. He&#8217;s still a rookie in managerial terms, isn&#8217;t he?&#8217;\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Rooney has only had one coaching job in England &#8211; at Derby between 2000 and 2002 &#8211; Sutton added on It&#8217;s All Kicking Off: &#8216;On the face of it, it does seem like madness to sack John Eustace when the club are doing well.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;And essentially, what does it do? It puts a hell of a lot more pressure on the owners making that decision.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/10\/09\/15\/76339823-12610627-image-a-22_1696860340247.jpg\" height=\"413\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>Eustace (pictured) was sacked on Monday, despite the club sitting sixth in the Championship<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/10\/09\/15\/76339849-12610627-image-a-24_1696860358160.jpg\" height=\"350\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>&#8216;The only thing that keeps you in the public eye long-term is good results,&#8217; said Ian Ladyman<\/p>\n<p>Brady, a seven-time Super Bowl Champion, became a minority owner in Birmingham back in August.<\/p>\n<p>The 46-year-old entered a partnership with<span>\u00a0Knighthead Capital Management LLC,\u00a0 taking on the role of chairman of the advisory board at the club.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>On the possible arrival of Rooney, Mail Sport football editor Ian Ladyman said: &#8216;Clubs do stupid things and clubs seem to labor under this illusion that a big name will bring them the publicity and glamor they want.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;It does, but only for about a fortnight. The only thing that really keeps you in the public eye long-term is good results and Birmingham seem to have plenty of decent results.&#8217;<\/p>\n<h3>IT&#8217;S ALL KICKING OFF!\u00a0<\/h3>\n<p><span>It&#8217;s All Kicking Off\u00a0is an exciting new podcast from Mail Sport that promises a different take on Premier League football, launching with a preview show today and every week this season.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>It is available on MailOnline, Mail+, YouTube , Apple Music and Spotify<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Your browser does not support iframes.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/sport\/football\/article-12610627\/Wayne-Rooney-Birmingham-Tom-Brady-DC-United-Chris-Sutton-MLS.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read Full Article<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wayne Rooney is &#8216;not a world beater,&#8217; Chris Sutton insists on It&#8217;s All Kicking Off amid &#8216;madness&#8217; links to Tom Brady&#8217;s managerless Birmingham Wayne Rooney is tipped to take charge of Birmingham after leaving DC United Watch Chris Sutton and Ian Ladyman&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":293717,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.8 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Wayne Rooney is &amp;apos;not a world beater,&amp;apos; 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