Wayne Rooney disagrees with Steven Gerrard’s ‘egotistical losers’ comment

Wayne Rooney admits club rivalries did get in the way of success for England’s ‘golden generation’ but disagrees with Steven Gerrard’s suggestion that they were “egotistical losers”.

Earlier this week, former Three Lions team-mate Steven Gerrard said the egos of England’s players stopped them from achieving success.

But Rooney, who scored 53 goals in 120 England appearances, said he “had no issues” with the other players and believed the team still worked hard for each other but just could not “get over the line” in major tournaments.

On his BBC podcast, The Wayne Rooney Show, he said: “We didn’t win anything. I wouldn’t quite put it that way, but I know what he’s saying, because there was a lot of big characters in the dressing room and in the team.

“When you look back with the players we had, could we have done better, I think we could have but it wasn’t to be.

Why did England Golden Generation fail?
“Egotistical Losers”