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- Updated: October 5, 2016
Wayne Rooney has revealed that Sam Allardyce apologised to him for declaring it was “not for me to say” where the Manchester United star should play, a claim for which the England captain feels he was “slaughtered.”
Allardyce, now the former England manager, made the comments following his first game in charge of the Three Lions in September—a 1-0 win over Slovakia—after which Rooney received a lot of criticism for dropping too deep in a midfield role, per BBC Sport.
Ahead of England’s first game under interim manager Gareth Southgate—against Malta at Wembley on Saturday—Rooney insisted there has never been any truth in the claim he plays where he wants for the national side, per Sky Sports’ Michael Kelleher:
Sam came out and said I play where I want but it couldn’t be further from the truth, I play to instructions.
I got battered in many different ways for my performance, which I felt was actually a decent performance.
I don’t pick myself, I haven’t ever picked myself. I didn’t come in and say: “I want to play here or there.” I played where I was asked to play. That was a big misunderstanding and I seemed to get slaughtered for it. I suffered from that.
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