Sam Allardyce insists he has no problem with Wayne Rooney after his Merseyside derby outburst.
Rooney reacted angrily to being substituted in last weekend’s stalemate with Liverpool which saw Allardyce advise the forward to curb his public frustrations.
It prompted suggestions that the Blues manager was at odds with his side’s leading scorer, but Allardyce shot down those suggestions on Friday.
He said: “We’re all right, no problem – like there’s no problem with Yannick Bolasie and there’s no problem with Tom Davies.
“All three of those players I substituted last week. You’re asking players to be angels. Stop it.
“We live in a politically correct world as it is, if somebody stamps their feet we’ll be saying you can’t do that.
“A reaction from a player when he comes off of disappointment is to be expected.
“One would ask him not to do it in the public eye but sometimes that can’t be helped.
“A man as proud of being an Everton fan as him and playing for Everton, that’s where the reaction came from.”