Keane becomes a Dec fan

Roy Keane described Declan Rice’s performance against Croatia as “excellent” – compliments don’t come much higher.

The Hammer was right back to his absolute best in front of the back four and with Kalvin Phillips was quite outstanding.

For Roy Keane to describe him as excellent given some of the comments he has made about past performances means he had to be at his best.

And I am still personally shocked at the growth in his game Dec has shown since arriving in the Hammers first team dressing room.

We all know of course it need a Hammer or three in an England team for it to win anything  and Declan could hardly be a better example of our club at its best.

Keane was impressed by England’s ‘very good’ performance against Croatia and reserved special praise for Leeds United midfielder Phillips and Dec.

There’s always a danger that he may be doing a talking up job on behalf of Manchester United but we have definite sourced information that the Old Trafford won’t be moving for Dec this summer.

‘There was talk before the game about maybe taking a draw but l thought it was vital they got a win,’ Keane told ITV. ‘I thought it was a very good performance by England.