Sunday 14 February 2016 07:56, UK
Quique Sanchez Flores feels Troy Deeney's "amazing personality" is just one of several reasons why he should be in the England squad.
Deeney scored twice for Watford in their 2-1 Premier League win at Crystal Palace on Saturday, adding a clinical second to a well-taken penalty for his first of the afternoon.
Having been recalled to Sanchez Flores' starting line-up, club captain Deeney won the 16th-minute penalty from which he calmly scored Watford's opening goal, and after Emmanuel Adebayor headed Palace level and the hosts were in the ascendency, he superbly controlled Ben Watson's cross before shooting their second underneath goalkeeper Wayne Hennessey.
The goals were his eighth and ninth of the season, but given much of his responsibility at Watford comes in providing a platform for fellow striker Odion Ighalo and that the presence of Wayne Rooney, Daniel Sturridge, Danny Welbeck, Harry Kane, Jamie Vardy, Charlie Austin and Theo Walcott means competition for selection in the England team is intense, an international call-up is unlikely.
This kind of player can combine with everyone.
Sanchez Flores has also previously managed Sergio Aguero, Diego Forlan, David Villa, Fernando Morientes and others, but asked if Deeney was good enough to play for England, the Spaniard responded: "Yes, I've already said.
"This kind of player can combine with everyone, with Kane, with Vardy, with other players, he can combine with other players.
"But I want to stop about that, because I am not the manager of the national team, I respect [Roy] Hodgson a lot.
"[Deeney] has an amazing personality. He is not just a striker for us. He started the season as a striker, then as a second striker, and now he's playing for the system.
"It's not just like a striker, his value for the collective, his work-rate, pressure, defending deep, interceptions, he's a very important player for us."
