Wayne Rooney believes England’s’Golden Generation’ might have”won everything” when they’d functioned under a director of Pep Guardiola’s calibre.
Rooney, with 120 caps, stared with England at six tournaments but not improved beyond the stage.
He thinks the unsatisfactory record of England was to coaching rather than a deficiency of ability.
“I see [England] with enthusiasm and happiness when they’re winning,” he told the Wayne Rooney Podcast.
“You look at our team a decade ago and arguably we now had the best group of players in soccer.
“Rio Ferdinand, John Terry, Ashley Cole, [Steven] Gerrard, [Paul] Scholes, [Frank] Lampard, [David] Beckham, myself, Michael Owen – our staff then, if we had a Guardiola with that group of players, we’d have won all, no doubt about it.”
Rooney is now England’s record goalscorer ahead of Sir Bobby Charlton, four with 53.
However he believes current England captain Harry Kane – that has scored 26 goals for England – is capable of overtaking this record.
“I never take targets for granted, I still love grading them. After I made to 35 for England, I might truly feel the record getting close,” Rooney said.
“I really don’t think that it’ll endure for 50 years including Bobby Charlton’s, I believe Harry Kane, maybe the subsequent two or three years will… He is an excellent goalscorer and his record for England is wonderful.
“Once I got the record and then went for my final match I said it would be an honor to go and present him like Bobby Charlton introduced me with the golden boot and also I’m sure it will not be before too long.”

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