Wayne Rooney: Keeping Derby up would be my 'biggest achievement in football'

Key Facts

• • Mark Ogden Wayne Rooney is in the final phase of securing the qualifications needed to manage at the elite level in English football, but it turns out that learning on the job as Derby County manager offers a much more comprehensive education than anything he has learned while studying for his UEFA Pro Licence.
• "This" is shorthand for the catalogue of problems Rooney, 36, has had to deal with on a daily basis at Derby, his EFL Championship team.
• Add in the issue of severe transfer restrictions, which allow Derby to make only loan signings or six-month deals, and it's easy to see why Rooney is finding his first management job to be tougher than he could ever have imagined.
• "It would be the biggest achievement in football for me, to deal with everything and manage to stay up, but there is a lot of hard work to do before we start to do that."

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