{"id":465679,"date":"2023-10-13T12:17:56","date_gmt":"2023-10-13T16:17:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/?post_type=news&#038;p=465679"},"modified":"2023-10-13T12:17:56","modified_gmt":"2023-10-13T16:17:56","slug":"rooney-rejected-saudi-offer-to-lead-birmingham","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/rooney-rejected-saudi-offer-to-lead-birmingham\/","title":{"rendered":"Rooney rejected Saudi offer to lead Birmingham"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Wayne Rooney shared he rejected an offer to manage in Saudi Arabia before accepting the head coaching position at Birmingham City in the Championship.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">New Birmingham City boss Wayne Rooney poses with the shirt. \ud83d\udcf8 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/KLSV15uhNg\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/KLSV15uhNg<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Football Daily (@footballdaily) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/footballdaily\/status\/1712771796603183323?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">October 13, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>The ex-Manchester United and England forward, who worked until recently as boss of DC United and in the past of Derby County, became Birmingham head coach on Wednesday with the team 6<sup>th<\/sup> in the standings of the English 2<sup>nd<\/sup> tier championship.<\/p>\n<p>Birmingham&#8217;s chief executive Garry Cook admitted he tried to recruit Rooney to the Saudi Pro League while he was working as CEO of the championship in the Middle Eastern country.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We talked about Saudi Arabia. He didn\u2019t want that,&#8221; Cook shared at a joint news conference with Wayne.<\/p>\n<p>Rooney shared that his choice was &#8220;no disrespect&#8221; to head coaches who had decided to move to the Arabic country, clarifying: &#8220;For me, I felt my development, my preference, was not there.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wayne Rooney shared he rejected an offer to manage in Saudi Arabia before accepting the head coaching position at Birmingham City in the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4225,"featured_media":465680,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"tags":[21751,21695],"news_category":[136,14235,14084],"gn_keywords":[21752,21696],"acf":{"announce":"Wayne chose not to continue his managerial career in Saudi Arabia.","video":["video"]},"rank_math_focus_keyword":"","rank_math_description":"","rank_math_title":"","rank_math_robots":"","rank_math_canonical_url":"","rank_math_facebook_title":"","rank_math_facebook_description":"","rank_math_facebook_image":"","rank_math_twitter_title":"","rank_math_twitter_description":"","rank_math_twitter_image":"","rank_math_snippet_shortcode":"","rank_math_primary_category":"","rankmath_seo":{"focus_keyword":"","description":"","title":"","canonical_url":"","robots":"","facebook":{"title":"","description":"","image":""},"twitter":{"title":"","description":"","image":""}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/465679"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4225"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=465679"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/465679\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":465682,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/465679\/revisions\/465682"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/465680"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=465679"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=465679"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=465679"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=465679"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}