Rooney new number 1 rumour

Tom Huddlestone is apparently being considered to join Rooney's coaching staff at Argyle .

Tom played with Rooney briefly at Derby in 2020 and has recently been coaching the U21s at Man Utd.

Meanwhile ex-Tottenham midfielder Tom Huddlestone will leave his Under 21s player-coach role.

Sounds interesting.

Tgwu wrote:

Tom Huddlestone is apparently being considered to join Rooney's coaching staff at Argyle .

Tom played with Rooney briefly at Derby in 2020 and has recently been coaching the U21s at Man Utd.

Meanwhile ex-Tottenham midfielder Tom Huddlestone will leave his Under 21s player-coach role.

he wont be leaving the role to come here he was released from his contract anyways so the herald an wrap that up for a start that he left utd to come here.

He wouldn't be the ideal assistant to wayne if it is indeed him no issue with him coming in as a player/coach as he was a good midfielder and the sort we could do with as a backup as forshaw will be injured most if this season so at least we will have a experienced midfielder in Tom to call apon to be the ball winning midfielder,
Wayne needs an experience number 2 guiding him along and help him get better. he has the coaches that know what they are doing in Ireland, Flahavan and the lodging house cat nance already in place he needs to add a good fitness coach to join them too but he needs that experienced assistant otherwise this crazy appointment will prove most of us right and be a foster mark 2 situation.

Tom Huddlestone spoke this week from North Carolina

Huddlestone, who began working with the U21s in 2022, also spoke of a 'perfect two years' in the player-coach role he occupied.

'For somebody like myself, who wants to go into coaching longer term, and then eventually management, I think when you're coming towards the end of your career that role is sort of a perfect transitional season or two,' he said while speaking from The Soccer Tournament in North Carolina.

'Because when you're playing... you take for advantage a lot of the stuff that goes on behind the scenes. The hours of preparation, understanding why coaches do certain sessions, setting the sessions up, analyzing the sessions afterwards, and all the preparation going into the opposition on a game to game basis. '

So it's been excellent to see that side of it. And it's given me a real hunger to move forward in my coaching career. And as I say, in two, three, fours years, whatever it may be, hopefully, become a manager one day.'

For now, the former England midfielder looks set to keep on playing

Bizarre situation with the manager away for some time. With the Euros not finishing until the middle of July players will have been back in training for some time already at that point
Maybe Directors are dealing with the appointment of 2nd in command

Wouldn't be surprised to see Leighton Baines join the coaching staff-a Scouser with links to both Dewsnip and Rooney



As an aside it might be an idea if Argyle updated their website "Management team" page which hasn't been changed since before Foster joined.

Pete Shuttleworth