The 43 year old Millers legend is holding the fort again, and speaking in todays press conference he says he doesnt see himself as a manager.
“The chairman has asked me to step in and do a job to help out and I am happy to do that. He's my boss, If he asked me to clean the toilets, I’d do it, whatever he asks me to do."
“I am stressed but I am happy to do it for as long as he needs me, whether it be three days, three weeks or three months. I honestly don’t know how long it will be.”
Asked if he was offered the job on a permanant basis by the chairman, Warney made his position clear; “I would have a chat with him,” he said. “I’m truly honest, and would say to him I’m not a manager. I do like controlling things. I’m a bit of a control freak, granted, but I don’t think I’m a manager."
“A fear of mine is that I love working for this club and I love my job and if do the manager’s job for six months and then a new manager comes in in the summer, I honestly don’t believe he would want me sitting behind him talking to a bunch of subs.
“I know what football is like. I know how paranoid managers are, and that is me being as honest as I can be.
“If the chairman asks me to do it to the end of the season, I wouldn’t say ‘no’ to him because he has asked me to do it. But then, regrettably, I would worry that my career would be elsewhere. I will do whatever the club want me to do.”
However, he did give his thoughts on what the next Millers manager should bring to the party; “I like a leader of men, someone who is prepared to criticise players, Already I have had two meetings and gave it to them on a couple of things I wasn’t happy with."
“Generally I want a good human. That sounds a bit romantic, but that’s the truth. When I played, if I played for someone who was a good human being and a good football bloke, then I would run through walls for him. If I didn’t like him, it might just have been half a per cent less, but it makes a difference."
“I want someone who is straight-talking, honest, hard-working, someone who wants to play football in the way that I think Rotherham fans want to see.”
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