“If you leave [the tournament] playing your best, beaten by a better team, I accept that”.
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“Hopefully that will work on the England side, I think it’s worked everywhere else that I’ve been and I’ll have that approach in this job”.
“We were very poor against Iceland”, he said.
“He had great ability, some of the things he could do, and he’s gone up a level since he left us”, Rooney said.
But he wanted to touch base with those that played at Euro 2016. “I’m sure he’ll feel there is unfinished business, and it would be a very big statement by the club if they can make it happen”. “For a forward player, that gets frustrating”, added Rooney.
He says manager Jose Mourinho’s plans should give him the freedom he enjoys and that they have led to a switch in his mentality.
“But Jose has come in, he has seen me play in another position for 10 years scoring goals, and that’s what he wants me to do”. I wouldn’t have made six changes, it’s more than half the team.
“You need to stay in the box, not outside”.
England started the campaign with four points against Russian Federation and Wales, but were held to a goalless draw in the final group game against Slovakia, leaving them finishing second in Group B, behind Wales.
Manchester United striker Wayne Rooney says he’s still fully committed to playing for England following Sam Allardyce’s appointment.
“I wouldn’t have rested six players”.
“I don’t want to criticise”, Tottenham boss Pochettino told the Daily Mail. We had lost momentum from the Slovakia game and tournament football is about confidence. “You get that from winning”.
“It was Roy’s decision to make those changes against Slovakia and either way, the team he put out should have been able to win”.
“When I came on against Slovakia it was hard to change the game, impossible really”.
His future as England skipper has hovered under a cloud ever since new England manager Sam Allardyce declined to confirm that Rooney would still wear the armband.
Allardyce, whose first game in charge will be against Slovakia on September 4, considers man management to be his primary strength and has confirmed he has a “rough idea” of who will feature in Trnava.
The 61-year-old signed a two-year deal with England last month and has been charged with ending the nation’s cycle of failure at major tournaments, which culminated in an embarrassing defeat to Iceland earlier this summer.
He continued: “I’ll carry on until the World Cup in 2018 and then I might have a decision to make”.
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“I felt we had a good squad”, said Rooney speaking to the Daily Mail.
