Simply eight English strikers have appeared within the Premier League this season and 22-year-old Chelsea striker Liam Delap is the one one beneath the age of 26.
Aston Villa striker Ollie Watkins carried out nicely as deputy to Kane at Euro 2024, along with his semi-final purpose serving to England attain the ultimate.
Nevertheless, he has been rested from this squad to handle an ongoing problem.
Rooney stated: “We discuss what number of video games gamers are taking part in now. We had a chance the place we need not see Kane, and relaxation him.
“Kane should not play for England once more till the World Cup. We need not see him, we all know what he can do.”
Each Rooney and Heskey really feel the obvious lack of out-and-out quantity nines coming by is an indication of the way in which the sport has gone, not simply in England however globally.
“I simply assume it’s purely as a result of they do not need to play quantity nines now with the way in which the sport is,” Rooney stated.
“In the event you look worldwide there’s not many quantity nines, so it isn’t simply England.”
He added: “Everybody desires to be a Mo Salah or a Lionel Messi, and taking part in as a ahead now you do not contact the ball as a lot – and you need to be ruthless like Erling Haaland is and Kylian Mbappe.
“There aren’t any quantity nines on the market, even Kane is not an out and out 9.”
Heskey’s sons, Reigan and Jaden, are forwards themselves and made their first-team debuts for Manchester Metropolis in September, within the Carabao Cup.
Heskey, 47, added: “Forwards needed to be a lot extra concerned after we had been taking part in. You’d must chase issues into the channel, you’d must win the flick-ons.
“Now your two quantity eights are doing extra, your wingers are fairly broad, you do not have to get entangled as a lot now.”
