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title: "Everton: David Maddock moots potential Wayne Rooney plan"
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published: "2022-01-25T20:45:28Z"
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# Everton: David Maddock moots potential Wayne Rooney plan

**Everton may team Wayne Rooney up with an interim manager, according to [The Mirror](https://www.mirror.co.uk/sport/football/news/everton-pull-away-naming-vitor-26038340)‘s David Maddock.**

### The lowdown

The 36-year-old is currently in charge at Derby County, who have been hit a combined 21-point deduction after entering administration and admitting breaches of accounting rules (via [BBC Sport](https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/59288687)).

The Englishman began his playing career at Goodison Park, scoring [15 Premier League goals as a teenager](https://www.transfermarkt.co.uk/wayne-rooney/detaillierteleistungsdaten/spieler/3332) before joining Manchester United in a [£27m](https://news.bbc.co.uk/sport2/hi/football/eng_prem/3611234.stm) deal in 2004. He then [returned to the Toffees](https://www.transfermarkt.co.uk/wayne-rooney/transfers/spieler/3332) for a single season in 2017 after his Old Trafford career came to an end.

### The latest

According to [The Mirror](https://www.mirror.co.uk/sport/football/news/everton-pull-away-naming-vitor-26038340), Rooney is on Everton’s list of managerial options, but his limited experience is a concern given the Toffees’ predicament in terms of sitting just [four points](https://www.skysports.com/premier-league-table) above the Premier League relegation zone.

They’ve been looking at potential interim candidates, ‘pursuing a similar idea to Manchester United’, who have given Ralf Rangnick the reins until the end of the season. There is a possibility that Rooney could work ‘alongside an interim with an appropriate CV’.

### The verdict

Rooney has done a commendable job in hugely difficult circumstances at Derby, hauling them off the foot of the Championship table earlier this month. [Without those points deductions](https://www.skysports.com/championship-table), they’d actually be knocking on the door of the top half.

Everton’s hesitation is understandable – he has [never managed in the Premier League](https://www.transfermarkt.co.uk/wayne-rooney/leistungsdatenLigenNational/trainer/86680) before and they’re uncomfortably close to the relegation zone – but he has had to cope with mighty adversity at Pride Park.

With a more experienced hand to offer guidance at first, giving him the job might not be the worst idea, even if it would be a unique arrangement in the English top flight.

**In other news, [many Everton fans fumed over links to this manager](https://www.footballtransfertavern.com/everton-fc-news/vitor-pereira-everton-manager-latest-romano/)**