Wayne Rooney has revealed ambitions plans for Derby County to be promoted back to the Premier League, with his playing career set to resume next month after he recently left MLS side DC United.
He reckons he could still make an impact at top flight level, he will work as an assistant to Rams boss Phillip Coco to try get the club back to the big time and to prove he can still compete with the elite at 34.
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He said to the media on Sunday: “I still felt I could do it when I was at Everton, but other people made their decisions on that.
“Now my ambition is to get Derby back in the Premier League and hopefully play my part there for them.
“Ryan Giggs was able to play into his late thirties in the Premier League and Gareth Barry says he wants to do it at 40.
“It’s important to understand football. It is not all about running round, it is about using your head to play the game.
“Sometimes that gets lost, because you don’t score as many goals or whatever. Given the right team around me, then I could still play in the Premier League.
“The two teams I played for in the Premier League were Manchester United and Everton. I am at Derby now, and hopefully we can get there with them.”
Some of his press conference can be watched in the video below…
"The manager's been great with me"
"It's frustrating doing training and not being able to play"
"I feel good physically"
Wayne Rooney gives his first press conference as Derby player-coach pic.twitter.com/bwnJOUpBFS
— The Sun Football ⚽ (@TheSunFootball) December 14, 2019
The ex-England captain, whose has a scored 208 Premier League goals, went to the United States in June last year after leaving Everton, whom he re-joined from United following a 13-year stay at Old Trafford.
Derby are 16th in the Championship table, nine points off the play-off places after Saturday’s 1-0 loss to Millwall.
After finding out that Wayne Rooney has revealed ambitions plans for Derby County to be promoted back to the Premier League, fans took to give their thoughts, some laughed and other suggested that surely those other clubs were targeting the same thing – see those tweets on the next page.
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