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Wayne Rooney’s time at Plymouth Argyle will not be remembered fondly by many of those involved

Plymouth Argyle set the 2024/25 season off with Wayne Rooney at the helm, but things didn’t go quite to plan.

Now nearing the end of the season, the Pilgrims are looking at the very real possibility of relegation from the Championship.

Rooney took a comparatively modest salary compared to the standard Championship manager, but he still wasn’t cheap. Owner Simon Hallett may struggle to convince he got his money’s worth.

Here, Football League World look at what Rooney is reported to have earned during his time at Home Park.

How much money Wayne Rooney was on at Plymouth Argyle

Reports suggest that Rooney was on around £500k per year as manager of Plymouth.

That works out to £46,667 per month over a 12-month period, or just over £9k a week.

Given that he was at Plymouth for just over seven months, before being relieved of his duties at the end of December, he will have been paid roughly £326,669 during his time in the hot seat.

It’s a significant sum to pay, considering Rooney only managed to lead the club to four wins and 18 points in the Championship.

And it likely cost more than that, given he signed a three-year deal in May last year. The precise wording of the exit from Plymouth was “by mutual consent”, but it is common for outgoing managers to be paid a proportion of the value of the rest of the contract, unless they opt to leave completely on their own accord.

While we don’t know exactly how much Rooney earned from Plymouth, it will have been a significant sum.

It was expensive, but Plymouth didn’t pay more than the going rate

Those numbers are astronomical figures for most, but it’s a relatively small wage packet when compared to the remuneration he reached during his playing career,

Capology estimates that Rooney was on as much as £235k a week at one point for Manchester United, equating to £12.2m a year, or just over 24 times his salary at Plymouth.

Given his name and status in the game, it’d be fair to assume that he attracted a higher wage to go to Home Park, but that doesn’t appear to be the case.

Guardian writer Matt Hughes revealed Rooney’s Plymouth wage was “modest even by Championship standards”, a sign of just how determined the 39-year-old is to forge a career for himself in management.

Rooney wasn’t right this time, but he may be in the future

The likes of Hallett will understandably receive criticism after the fact given the Rooney experiment didn’t quite work out, but it doesn’t mean he will always be a bad option as manager.

He may need to put in extra work, or take an even more modest salary, to get back in the game from here, given tough stints at both Birmingham City and Plymouth in consecutive seasons, but the lengths Rooney is willing to go to shows that he is desperate to establish his name in this game.

Still yet to reach his 40s, Rooney has plenty of time to grow in the field of management and, just because he has had two difficult experiences, doesn’t mean he’ll never make a success of being a coach.