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"If that means he can get into the squad and play a part, then that would be good. But first and foremost he has to get his fitness right.
"If that means he has to get his fitness right and miss the World Cup and concentrate on next season, then sadly for England and Wayne himself he will have to do that.
"In general it is a blow. You don't want to see anyone get injured but for someone who is an integral part of the United team and the England team, it is disappointing.
"Wazza is a special talent and he will be missed. He'd be missed by whichever team you took him out of.
"But England have a lot of quality around the squad. Another player will get a chance now and that is what happens at World Cups. Players get chances and come out of nowhere and become stars.
"It is the way Wayne and Michael Owen started. And look back at Toto Schillaci for Italy in 1990. Nobody knew him before the World Cup but he came out of it as top scorer and then everybody knew him."