Wayne Rooney offered high-profile TV role as Man Utd legend considers whether to return to management

WAYNE ROONEY is wanted arsenic a prima pundit for Amazon Prime – portion deciding whether to instrumentality to football.

The erstwhile England captain, sacked by Plymouth past month, made his Amazon debut successful Manchester City‘s Champions League play-off archetypal limb with Real Madrid.

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Rooney, 39, has proved to beryllium a fashionable pundit with his honorable views, and has already worked for Sky Sports and BBC Sport.

Amazon, though acceptable to suffer Premier League rights astatine the extremity of this season, volition proceed to amusement Champions League shot until 2027.

The ex-Manchester United striker volition beryllium capable to bash arsenic overmuch enactment arsenic helium wants for the station.

Meanwhile, Rooney is deciding his adjacent steps successful the crippled having besides managed Derby, DC United and Birmingham earlier his stint astatine Plymouth.

He told erstwhile Red Devils’ team-mate Gary Neville connected his YouTube amusement The Overlap: “I would similar to spell backmost successful [to management]. But it would person to beryllium the close club.

“I’m not successful a monolithic unreserved to spell backmost in. There’s antithetic things that I’m looking astatine to effort and get progressive with… unless thing was perfectly the close happening to do.

“Every nine I’ve been at, I’ve enactment myself successful a truly challenging situation.

“I’ve had immoderate large experiences, bully ones, atrocious ones (and) you’ve ever got that to autumn backmost on.”

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This week, however, Rooney is successful Dubai – aft accepting a coaching relation during the February half-term break.

He’s moving with Football Escapes, tutoring young children astatine the Jumeirah Beach Hotel.

Fellow ex-Prem stars Michael Owen and Mark Noble are among different coaches employed by the company.

Rooney was a large deed erstwhile making his Amazon bow past week astatine the Etihad – helped by his relaxed joking.

Predicting a hostile reception astatine United’s neighbours City, his archetypal words were: “Obviously a stadium I’ve scored a batch of goals in.”

He besides trolled HIMSELF during a dense downpour wherever helium was the lone Amazon pundit connected the transportation without an umbrella.

Rooney, who has had 2 hairsbreadth transplants, said: “I anticipation the rainfall doesn’t travel down immoderate more, my hairsbreadth volition beryllium each implicit the place!”