Cook dinner, a former chief government at Manchester Metropolis, wished Rooney to steer a promotion bid and had tried to steer him to take a job within the Saudi Professional League earlier than his arrival at Birmingham.
He has made numerous key appointments at government stage, whereas Mike Rigg is ready to affix because the membership’s new academy supervisor in April.
The Rooney experiment has failed, nonetheless, and supporters vented their anger within the defeat at Elland Highway, chanting for him to depart.
Rooney hoped to spice up his squad with new signings within the January switch window and is known to have been lining up targets in current weeks.
He wss eager to rebuild his staff after expressing issues over the power of the gamers accessible to him. He didn’t assume the gamers may play the fashion of soccer he wished to implement.
Rooney’s feedback about desirous to make 11 substitutions after the 3-1 dwelling defeat by Stoke Metropolis are mentioned to have triggered frustration within the dressing room.
After the 0-0 draw with Bristol Metropolis on December 29, he got here underneath additional strain after the opposing supervisor, Liam Manning, remarked that Birmingham had arrange at dwelling with a low block.
This was removed from the “no concern” soccer that Cook dinner was concentrating on underneath Rooney, who left DC United on the finish of their season in Main League Soccer.
Birmingham’s house owners will now ramp up their seek for a brand new supervisor, as they transfer to save lots of their season.
This was not the imaginative and prescient they’d in thoughts underneath Rooney, one of many Premier League’s iconic figures, they usually stay absolutely dedicated to taking the membership ahead.
Rooney now faces an uphill process to salvage his status as a supervisor. On the day of his appointment he pledged to “elevate Birmingham Metropolis to the subsequent stage” however underneath his tenure the membership have been heading out of the division and right down to League One.