With Wayne Rooney set to take charge of his first match as Plymouth Argyle manager against Orlando Pirates on Friday, one of his assistants has insisted the English side are looking to win the game.
Plymouth will take on the South African giants Pirates in a pre-season friendly in Marbella, Spain, on Friday at 19:00 South African time.
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The English second-tier team narrowly escaped relegation from the 2023/24 EFL Championship, finishing just one point above the relegated three teams after a final-day win over Hull City.
In May, the club appointed Manchester United's all-time top goalscorer Wayne Rooney as their latest head coach on a three-year deal until June 2027.
Rooney, who worked as a pundit for the better part of the 2024 UEFA European Championship, is now set to oversee his first game in charge since he was sacked by Birmingham City in January after 83 days at the helm.
The 38-year-old's assistant head coach Pete Shuttleworth has since warned that Rooney wants to win every game, including his first friendly against Bucs.
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Shuttleworth told Plymouth Live: "The gaffer will want to win every game, I know that – first pre-season game, last pre-season game, Carabao Cup.
"He's never going to go and say, 'This is just about minutes'.
"Now, the reality is it's a first game, there will be things we want to see that we have implemented in the last seven days (of pre-season training), and we have seen some of that in our internal 11 v 11s as well.
"So it will be nice to see that against an opposition and see whether the lads are taking in what we are asking them to do and trying that.
"We will also get the lads some exposure to that 11 v 11 competitive minutes, but ultimately the gaffer will want to win every game.
"If we can go into Sheffield Wednesday with a 100% record of winning five games, it's never going to do you any harm.
"The gaffer doesn't believe in this, 'It doesn't matter what you do in pre-season'. He's a winner and that's what his mentality is."
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