Wayne Rooney has turned down an method from Everton to interview for his or her vacant supervisor’s place.
The Toffees are trying to find a successor to Rafael Benitez after the Spaniard was sacked earlier this month following an prolonged poor run of kind.
The membership are simply 4 factors above the relegation zone after 10 defeats in 13 Premier League matches.
Rooney enjoys membership legend standing with Everton after two profitable spells as a participant and was one among quite a lot of names on the shortlist together with Frank Lampard and Vitor Pereira.
However Rooney has confirmed he has turned down the prospect to talk to the membership to give attention to efforts to maintain Derby within the Championship amidst ongoing issues surrounding their possession.
“Everton approached my agent and requested me to interview for the vacant job, which I turned down,” he mentioned on Friday.
“I imagine I will likely be a Premier League supervisor. I imagine I’m prepared for that, 100 per cent. And if that’s with Everton in the future sooner or later that might be completely nice. However I’ve bought a job right here that I’m doing at Derby County which is a vital job to me.”
He admitted he needed to assume lengthy and exhausting concerning the supply.
“They bought in contact with my agent, my agent let the directors know as effectively, and sure after all it was a troublesome determination for me (to show it down),” he added.
Former Chelsea boss Lampard stays a number one candidate for the position after enterprise a second spherical of talks with Pereira additionally nonetheless being thought of regardless of going public with particulars of the membership’s course of in a TV interview.
Kaynak: briturkish.com
