Roy Keane
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You're never going to make progress as a team.
I did this at United for the last couple of years where I had a choice to make.
This is international stuff.
Club stuff is different.
You're under contract.
International stuff is different.
You're deciding whether you're playing 25 games a season and you're happy and you know you're not going to be picked for 25 games a season, which to be fair is an acceptance of that, which to be fair you don't particularly like.
But you're just basically what I would call good...
Good guardian.
Would I sit there and say, oh, yeah, you're right, guys, I wouldn't?
No, but the Wayne Rooney or Roy Keane that played at your level, and there aren't many people that play at your level, by the way, let's just be clear.
There aren't many people that play with your mentality, so you're just a different type of person.
You know what I mean?
You are.
So you have to play, or else it's a problem.
Just because purely your standards, the levels you're at, the quality that you have...
I think if someone else... So why are you going and keeping the other six or seven players who aren't going to start to keep them happy?
No, but to be fair, when you've got a squad of 24 players going to a tournament and you've got Jordan Henderson there as an example, just use him as an example, right?
And I'm sure there are other people that are examples of doing this.
I'm sure Scott Carson at Manchester City is a third goalkeeper and Tom Heaton at Man United.