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‘I fell off it a couple of times. It’s not the widest and I rolled over!’: Wayne Rooney opens up on sleeping on the SOFA at his office to get deals done and why he will NEVER walk out on Derby amid administration plight
- Derby County have been in administration by Quantuma since September 22
- The Rams are dealing with a 12-point reduction which could increase to 21
- Wayne Rooney’s side face a survival battle as they sit bottom of the table
- But the Derby boss has insisted he will not walk out on the in-crisis club
Derby County are mired in administration and sit bottom of the Championship but Wayne Rooney has sacrificed nights on the sofa and money out of his own pocket and doesn’t intend to walk away any time soon.
Rooney is cutting his teeth in management with Derby County and his start to managerial life hasn’t been the smoothest.
The Rams are gripped by crisis and gloom and Rooney has not been able buy a player since succeeding Phillip Cocu with Derby bottom of the league in November.
But the Derby boss was not phased as he worked round the clock, even sleeping on a sofa in his office, to raid the free agent market, signing six in August including Ravel Morrison and veterans Phil Jagielka and Curtis Davies, according to The Times.
Wayne Rooney has insisted he will not walk out on Derby County amid administration woes
‘I fell off it a couple of times. It’s not the widest and I rolled over,’ he said, speaking to The Times’s Jonathan Northcroft .
‘I slept here two or three nights. One where I was trying to get Ravel in and there were snags. I wanted to make sure I was here — whether it was midnight or one in the morning — to get it done. But it’s much better…
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