England squad to face Wales, Belgium and Denmark: Tammy Abraham (Chelsea), Trent Alexander-Arnold (Liverpool), Harvey Barnes (Leicester City), Dominic Calvert-Lewin (Everton), Ben Chilwell (Chelsea), Conor Coady(Wolverhampton Wanderers), Eric Dier(Tottenham Hotspur), Joe Gomez (Liverpool), Jack Grealish (Aston Villa) Dean Henderson(Manchester United), Jordan Henderson(Liverpool), Danny Ings (Southampton), Harry Kane (Tottenham Hotspur), Michael Keane(Everton), Harry Maguire (Manchester United), Ainsley Maitland-Niles (Arsenal), Tyrone Mings(Aston Villa), Mason Mount (Chelsea), Kalvin Phillips (Leeds United), Jordan Pickford(Everton), Nick Pope (Burnley), Marcus Rashford (Manchester United), Declan Rice(West Ham United), Bukayo Saka (Arsenal) Jadon Sancho (Borussia Dortmund), Raheem Sterling (Manchester City), Kieran Trippier (Atletico Madrid), Kyle Walker (Manchester City), James Ward-Prowse(Southampton), Harry Winks (Tottenham Hotspur)
Stupid alphabetical order..... Barnes, Calvert-Lewin and Saka the new faces - no Greenwood or Foden which is no surprise
No lamptey but Saka's inclusion shows young players if they're good enough they're old enough which will send a message out to players like lamptey. Pretty pleased with the squad. Bit disappointed no maddison but there is alot of talent there
Not bad. Could live without Dier or Keane, but very happy with Barnes. Still Southgate can start with five defenders and two defensive midfielders.
Lamptey wasn't even in the original under 21 squad last time, he was never going to leapfrog everyone based on 3 games. Interesting squad I think, a little surprised to see Barkley not in such a large squad given he's played so much since the world cup but otherwise nice selections. Hopefully complete trial in the Wales game, full strength against Belgium, and a mix for Denmark. And for the love of God no 3 at the back. Though based on Coady, AMN, and Saka and the comparative lack of midfielders I assume we'll see it in at least one game.
There’s a lack of technical ability in midfield. Barkley should be there, as Grealish will probably be on the bench anyway. Too many defensive midfielders. Don’t see the point of ward prowse
The thing with White is he hasn't actually been particularly good. If it wasn't for the insane amount of hype generated by Leeds fans about him I doubt anyone would mention him. He's largely been solid if unspectacular in a Brighton team who also play some nice stuff but have conceded 3 goals in his 3 of his 4 games there. Certainly if Keane or Dier got sat down like he did by Rashford on the weekend for the goal they'd have been endlessly hounded about it.
I know. Just pointing out young players know they will get their chance. I knew lamptey wouldn't be called up
Yeah, this is my only real concern about this squad as without Foden, Maddison, Barkley ( even though I’m no his biggest fan ) and Grealish likely to be played out wide, there is a lack of creativity through the middle.
A quote from our welsh friends. DELUDED 'Have you seen their squad announcement? Obviously we are biased but our number 1 team would give them a go and I’d be disappointed if we didn’t get at least a draw. Long gone are the days of Lampard, Beckham, Gerard, Scholes, Ferdinand, Shearer, Owen.... Harry Kane is the only world class player in that team. They are massively overrated, I fancy our “b” team to give their “b” team a good game next week. However I do think Giggs will pick a strongish team.' End quote. Our ********ing c team could thrash wales. Our only world class player is kane? Sterling rashford trent. The more trash they talk the more I HATE them.
Isn’t Henderson injured? Mount is also already being run into the ground by his club. Bizarre that Barkley isn’t included with that all in mind. Considering the way he used JWP in the last games the CM picks become even more uninspired.
Disagree, Ben White is very good player, the more he plays with Brighton and the PL the better he will get, has all the attributes to reach the very top
Yeah but you know what to expect, they will always talk trash about us no matter what. I’m pretty sure that poster you quoted doesn’t really believe what he wrote fwiw. I mean their B team would be full of championship and league 1 players so I very much doubt he would really fancy their chances, he probably knows you’re watching just to wind you up
With the lack of creativity, I kind of find it baffling that Southgate is so dismissive of playing Grealish more centrally as to be frank with this midfield pick we need him in the middle or play Kane deeper to try and create which he can otherwise these games could be another grind.
Harvey Barnes has been fabulously effective whenever I’ve seen him play ... sadly him joining the squad would probably mean Grealish missing out ..