Rooney: “Captain or not captain, I’ll turn up and be available”

While the new appointed England team manager Sam Allardyce remain light lipped on whether Rooney will continue to be the next Captain for England team.

Instead he confirmed that he will only reveal his decision when the team meet up for their World Cup qualifier against Slovakia in September.

However Rooney clearly state that he will keep on play for at least another two years, captain or not, and after two years, he will decide on whether to retire or not.

He told the Daily Mail: “I’ll carry on until the World Cup in 2018 and then I might have a decision to make.

“But for the next two years, captain or not captain, I’ll turn up and be available to play if I am wanted.”

Rooney continued: “I’ve spoken to him. Not at length about how we’re going to play or my role, but he seems very excited about the job and he’ll have his own way of doing it.

“I don’t think it would be fair to expect him to make a decision on the captaincy now.

“So I’ll wait and see what he thinks. He’ll want to see the group, work with us all and then make his decision.”

We think that is what you truly call “working for a bigger goal”, fine work, Rooney.