ROONEY ON ENGLAND

WAYNE ROONEY believes England’s young players need to raise their game and make themselves indispensable to their clubs.

Three Lions boss Gareth Southgate is worried English players aren’t seeing enough time on the pitch, and Rooney admits some may have to follow 18-year-old Jadon Sancho and move abroad.

But Rooney said: “There is a lot of pressure on all the managers, especially with managers getting sacked after six months. So they probably feel they haven’t got the time to play a young player into the team and that’s the way football is going.

“It’s difficult for so many players but they have to demand to play by their performances.

“Like the Marcus Rashfords and Jesse Lingards, and Raheem Sterling in the last couple of years, the manager has had no option but to play them. Maybe they have to do that a bit more.”

Rooney knows the pressures have changed since he, briefly, became England’s youngest international, but says: “Criticism is more difficult to deal with when you are younger, but that’s the way it is, especially now for some of the players who are