After a tough begin to his Leeds United profession, Rooney’s former Everton team-mate Dominic Calvert-Lewin has hit a purple patch in current weeks.
The 28-year-old had scored simply as soon as in 10 league appearances previous to Leeds’ 3-2 defeat at Manchester Metropolis final month however has now discovered the online in every of his previous 5 outings, scoring twice in Saturday’s 4-1 win over Crystal Palace at Elland Road.
Rooney feels the striker might but pressure his means into Thomas Tuchel’s squad for subsequent summer season’s World Cup within the USA, Mexico and Canada.
“If he continues this, then there is no purpose why he should not be talked about – and even get a chance – to go to the World Cup, purely due to the dearth of forwards England have gotten,” Rooney stated.
“He competes, he is nice within the air, he is good in each packing containers. When he is in a run of kind and scoring targets like he’s, he is a handful to play in opposition to.
“You overlook, he is nonetheless fairly younger, he is nonetheless received a bit left in him and also you overlook how good a participant he’s.”
Calvert-Lewin scored 71 targets throughout his time at Everton however solely discovered the online 3 times in his last season with the membership, lacking over three months of the marketing campaign with a hamstring damage.
“I feel Everton made the appropriate resolution [to let him go],” Rooney continued. “Over the previous couple of seasons, he was by no means match, actually, and he was out of contract.
“It will have been very tough for Everton to present him a brand new contract along with his damage file, however he is gone to Leeds, saved himself match. The physios are doing a very good job with him there.”
