Rooney’s appointment has been met with a mixed response from the club’s fans who have concerns over his managerial record at Birmingham.
The former Manchester United and Everton striker also spent two seasons in charge of Derby County when they were suffering severe financial problems, as well as a spell at the helm of Major League Soccer side DC United.
“He was the most attractive candidate that we interviewed,” added Hallett.
“His strengths are essentially in his ability to relate to the squad, his ability to relate to the rest of the staff and to other stakeholders, including the fans.
“In his three managerial jobs I think the background to his decision-making was not terribly supportive and I think at Argyle it will be more supportive.
“One of the outstanding features of Wayne, other than his people skills, is his football intelligence.
“But if you’re kind of inhibited from actually exercising that intelligence with your squad, as I think in particular he was at Birmingham, I don’t think that we could expect the results to be what was desired.”
Hallett says Argyle will be able to provide the 38-year-old with the foundations to succeed as a head coach.
The club won the League One title last year despite having a budget less than many other clubs, and survived in the Championship this season while again being at a financial disadvantage.
“I completely understand that people would just look at the results and draw their conclusions from that,” he said.
“I’d absolutely say give Wayne a chance. I think in the Argyle environment we’ll see if he has the makings of a great head coach.
“We’ve had this motto of ‘Only one Argyle’ for quite a time now, and I think in the past five or six years we’ve massively outperformed our budgets.
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“There are ways of outperforming the budget, but they rest particularly on the kind of unity at the club and the environment behind Wayne.
“I think the ‘Only one Argyle’ concept has been critically important in helping us achieve what we’ve done over the last five years.
“Very few teams in the English Football League have won more games than us over the past five years.
“It’s clearly not because we’re paying the top dollar in terms of squad wage
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