Rooney is a character that divides opinion, despite every stat showing what a great player he was there are those who’ll maintain he was overrated, I think those same people are desperate for him to fail as a manager too, I understand some of his decision making in his personal life have been dubious but his football career in the main was exemplary, he wasn’t blessed with god given talent but from an early age worked and learned until he became the player who broke a load of records at both club and country level.
He’s done a great job in extremely difficult circumstances at Derby, and done so with dignity and maturity, he could become that rare breed of person who has an elite career both on the pitch and in the dug out.