Jayden Danns looks as though he could be joining a very familiar face on loan in the Championship next season .
The young striker, who broke through with a number of impressive performances for Liverpool’s senior team last season, looks set to continue his development away from Anfield next season. The 18-year-old is reportedly being lined up for a loan move to Championship side Plymouth Argyle , where he will come under the tutelage of a certain Wayne Rooney.
Rooney’s management career hasn’t quite got off to the best of starts. He won plaudits at Derby County but ultimately couldn’t save them from relegation, before making the move Stateside with DC United. An ill-fated spell at Birmingham followed, where he lasted just 15 games.
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Nevertheless, it could be a great opportunity for Danns to learn from one of the Premier League ’s greatest-ever forwards and, more crucially, get plenty of game time under his belt. Given what Rooney has promised Plymouth’s youngsters, Liverpool will hope that will be a given.
“Obviously I had my playing career, which I loved, but if you want to go into management, you quite quickly have to move on from there,” Rooney told Argyle TV (via The Independent ).
“I’ve put a lot of work in, a lot of time in to try to develop myself as a coach, try to improve, try to get better, and I want to be a coach who helps players, helps teams, develops players, academy players.
“Academy players are really important as well, to try to improve them, because I was a player who came into the first team at 16. I think a lot of young players are good enough, but maybe don’t get the chance, so I’ve got a real passion for that as well.”
Liverpool.com says: Rooney obviously knows what it takes to build a successful career after breaking through as a youngster, and hopefully he can impart some of that wisdom to Danns. The most crucial thing though is that the teenager gets game time while on loan.
Danns looked sensational when given the chance last season, but it was always unlikely that he would move ahead of the senior forward options in the pecking order for next season. Heading out on loan then is the best option for him, and hopefully he enjoys the same sort of success the likes of Harvey Elliott, Tyler Morton and Fabio Carvalho had in the Championship.
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