The Guardian:
The Wayne Rooney saga took another twist last night when it emerged that Manchester United believe he will not play against Trinidad & Tobago on Thursday. Sir Alex Ferguson's information is that the striker will be held back, although the United manager is also aware that he may be in for a nasty surprise.
United's medical staff have been in almost daily contact with the Football Association and they have been told that there is no need for a delegation from Old Trafford to travel to Germany yet. Sven-Goran Eriksson has promised that the club doctor Tony Gill and an independent specialist, Prof Angus Wallace of Nottingham's Queen's Medical Centre, will be welcomed into England's headquarters as soon as it is believed Rooney may be fit enough to play. As a courtesy the two men will be allowed to provide a second opinion, although Eriksson has also made it clear he will not necessarily go along with their recommendation.
As far as United are concerned, that invitation has not yet been issued and preliminary discussions have been about the possibility of sending representatives to Baden-Baden after Thursday.
Ferguson has taken this to mean Eriksson will not involve Rooney, although it should not be definitively ruled out. Relations between the two managers are at an all-time low and Eriksson in his current mood may think he has nothing to lose. The Swede has shown a new side to his character in the past few weeks and has been giving serious consideration to making Rooney a second-half substitute.
The Sun:
Wayne Rooney is so pumped up there are fears he will do a Gazza.
Wazza has already clattered into Theo Walcott and Jermaine Jenas at England training.
Now some members of the England camp fear Rooney will injure himself or a team-mate like Paul Gascoigne in the 1991 FA Cup final.
And an England source said: "There are people who think Wayne should be taking a little step backwards and calming down. He is definitely in the exuberant stage and is not holding back at any point.
"But Sven Goran Eriksson doesn't see a problem with how Wayne's going about things.
"It is almost as if he is blind to it and it could come back to haunt him."