The former Sunderland manager increased the hopes of the 33-year-old striker once again forcing his way into the national team set-up, however, as he mentioned him as evidence that his style of play is not as bad as often perceived.
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The Manchester United striker has 115 caps to his name and was given the armband in 2014, taking over from Steven Gerrard after that year’s World Cup in Brazil.
Sunderland fans were more grateful after he took over last October with the team bottom but one in the Premier League and steered them to safety as bitter local rivals Newcastle United were relegated instead. “So bring it on lads!”
“No midseason break. I have been an advocate of that for 10 years or more”. You toughen yourself for whatever job. Otherwise you don’t do it.
“I can turn things round quickly and get among teams and staff and try to create a successful journey”.
“I’ve managed some world class players. You know what the next dream is”.
Working with the England elite players is going to be exciting for me.
“I got pretty fed up pretty quickly, because football is everything to me”.
“That was missing in the Euro’s and I’m delighted he’s got the job”.
Allardyce would not be drawn on whether he thinks Rooney is more suited to a midfield or striking role, and plans to follow Mourinho’s lead on where to deploy the player.
The 61-year-old Englishman – who lost out to Steve McClaren 10 years ago after Sven-Goran Eriksson left – signed a two-year contract with his task to guide England to the 2018 World Cup finals in Russian Federation.
He said: “I was good enough then. I’m meeting everybody here at St George’s Park”.
“So this is a different level, this is a different challenge and so I am challenging myself to be able to meet that challenge to help England get to a tournament and do better than they’ve done before”.
“No, it is far too early to make predictions in that area”, the former Sunderland boss was quoted as saying by Sky Sports at his first press conference since being formally announced as the out-of-contract Hodgson’s successor on Friday (22 July).
“I think five Premier League clubs has given me a huge amount of experience”.
“What we all want is a successful England team and that will be the biggest challenge in my long career”.
“I expect the players to be very adaptable and very flexible”.
“As the pinnacle of my career, which this job is, I want to enjoy this the most with everybody who works with me and works around me”.
“It may be the same system but tinkered with slightly to suit the opposition so we can win the game”.
But I played with Jermain Defoe down the middle on his own at 5ft 10in previous year.
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“We worked on Jermain Defoe as a player who could not play up front on his own – that was it across the board”. He said: “I have managed some world class players”.
