"Sven is going on saying he will take the lad and then in six weeks' time he will have another two weeks to get fit to play in the quarter-final of a World Cup. That is a wild dream. All the other players will be extremely fit because they will have been playing and training for the previous two months. Players who are performing on that stage have to be 100 per cent fit.
"Really, it is folly to suggest the boy could be out of the game for six weeks, then two weeks later go and play in the World Cup quarter-final.
"We will do our best to get the boy to Germany but it will be us who will be doing the consulting.
"We have the right people here to make sure this is done properly but we have to try to calm people down.
"I spoke to Wayne on Saturday evening and he was obviously a bit down, but I told him these things happen.
"You never know but at the moment I doubt that he'll take part because of the recovery time.
"When you see brave players staying down after a tackle you know it's genuine and he's in pain, and that's what I felt with Wayne
"Wayne will be in plaster for the next few weeks and he'll be having regular scans to see how it's healing.
"I said a few weeks ago that I didn't want to see this kind of pressure on a lad of 20 years of age.
"Other more experienced players such as David Beckham, Steven Gerrard, Frank Lampard, John Terry, Rio Ferdinand and Gary Neville, should be taking the mantle. If England don't have Wayne Rooney, they will need to look at getting inspiration from other players.
"I would think this injury is even more of a killer blow to him because he knows he's missing major tournaments."
Neville puts it very concisely:
"He won't make it."
England have been told by FIFA that they can wait until June 9th to replace Rooney if they name him on the squad and he is ruled out.