England Senior National Team General Discussion Thread

Bayern have managed to get Musiala rested by Germany for the next matches. I wonder if they trying to get Kane similarly rested.

 

Hard to see Kane turning down a call-up.

 

Why do you keep comparing situations that couldn't be more different? Musiala has been injured/ hasn't played for coming up to 2 months.

 

Kane is that rarest of England players, who seems to value international football over club football. Almost certainly he'll be with England. Particularly now as I imagine he very much has the record appearances in site.

 

👉 The UEFA Executive Committee has confirmed the EURO 2028 qualification format:

🏟️ Hosts (ENG, IRL, SCO, WAL) will join 12 groups of 4–5 teams.

2️⃣ spots in final tournament will be reserved for best-ranked hosts who aren't qualified.

— UEFA (@UEFA) May 21, 2025

So we playing qualifying but will habw an automatic place anyway. Need ri make sure there is a good manager still to stop frequent withdrawals.

Also we can’t be drawn with Scotland, Wales or Republic of Ireland.

 

Kane has won Bundesliga player of the season.

 

Foden has announced he doesn’t want to be called up this week. https://www.independent.co.uk/sport...ter-city-club-world-cup-england-b2755010.html


Might find he doesn’t get back for a while

 

Solanke starts for Spurs. Austin, Whiteman, Spence, Gray, Ajayi, Moore and Scarlett are on the bench.
Maguire, Shaw and Mount start for Manchester United. Amass, Heaven, Collyer and Mainoo are on the bench.

 

Hope man utd win

 

If he wins I bet they won’t announce it at Anfield on Sunday.

 

Well done to our #ThreeLions and #YoungLions at @SpursOfficial on winning the @EuropaLeague! 👊 https://t.co/l18fyPtUdD

— England (@England) May 21, 2025

 

Another team who hasn't won a cup in years wins a cup. Wish the world cup was this year.

 

BBC nominations for best player of each club. (Four for each team)
Arsenal - Rice and Saka
Newcastle - Burn and Murphy
Chelsea - Palmer
Aston Villa - Rogers
Nottingham Forest - Gibbs-White
Brighton - Welbeck
Brentford - Lewis-Potter
Bournemouth - Cook
Palace - Henderson and Guehi
Everton - Branthwaite and Pickford
West Ham - Bowen, (Wan-Bissaka) and Kilman
Man United - Maguire
Spurs- Spence and Solanke
Leicester- Vardy
Ipswich - Delap and Hutchinson
Southampton- Ramsdale and Dibling

No English nominees
Liverpool, Man City, Fulham and Wolves

 

As someone rightly pointed out the other day, 2025 would have been an ideal year for a men's World Cup. After trophies for Tottenham, Crystal Palace and Newcastle, England would surely have been next…

— Dom Smith (@MrDomSmith) May 22, 2025

 

5 England wildcards Thomas Tuchel can call up to combat Club World Cup chaos
https://www.mirror.co.uk/sport/football/news/england-squad-thomas-tuchel-kane-35258922
Nwaneri, Gittens, Delap, Livramento and Anderson,

 

Gittens and nwaneri will be with the under 21s

 

Thomas Tuchel keen on two England goalkeepers to pile pressure on Pickford

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Dean Henderson and James Trafford could feature in next month’s matches against Andorra and Senegal

Jordan Pickford faces a three-way fight to remain as England’s first-choice goalkeeper.

Head coach Thomas Tuchel is known to be an admirer of Dean Henderson and is also keen to give James Trafford an opportunity to stake his claim.

Pickford made his England debut in 2017 and has been the undisputed number one since impressing at the 2018 World Cup.

The 31-year-old has earned 75 caps, making him the joint-second in all-time England appearances along with Joe Hart and David Seaman, and behind only Peter Shilton (125), and has enjoyed another strong season in goal for Everton.

However, Tuchel and his goalkeeping coach Henrique Hilario are planning to consider other options with Trafford, who has gained promotion back to the Premier League with Burnley, and Henderson, the goalkeepers to push Pickford.

Henderson won the FA Cup with Crystal Palace last weekend and has also had an impressive campaign in the Premier League. Only David Raya and Mat Sels (13) have kept more clean sheets in the league this season than the 11 for Henderson and also Pickford.

Tuchel selected four goalkeepers for his first squad in March with the trio joined by Aaron Ramsdale who has now, unfortunately, suffered relegation with Southampton.

At that time, Tuchel said he regarded all the goalkeepers as equals with Pickford saying he was ready for the challenge. He played the full game in the World Cup qualifiers at home to Albania and Latvia with Ramsdale left out of the match-day squad.

When Ramsdale was at Arsenal there was a debate as to whether he should replace Pickford but since then he has fallen down the pecking order.

Tuchel will name his latest selection on Friday morning ahead of another qualifier next month, away to Andorra in Barcelona, and then the home friendly against Senegal. Both games would appear to represent ideal opportunities for the head coach to look at alternatives to Pickford if he wants to.

Providing competition for Pickford, rather than replacing him, would appear to be a motivation for Tuchel. Trafford, who is just 22, is, in particular, regarded as a goalkeeper with huge potential, especially for his ability with the ball at his feet. He has been strongly linked with a move to Newcastle United, having been of interest last summer.

Trafford is yet to make his England debut having been first called up in March 2024 from the England Under-21s – where he was a key member of Lee Carsley’s European Championship-winning side. He became the youngest goalkeeper in that competition not to concede a goal. However, Trafford did not make Gareth Southgate’s final squad for last year’s Euros in Germany.

Henderson is six years older but, as yet, has made just two international appearances.

Tuchel will give consideration to leaving out Phil Foden after the 24-year-old insisted he needed time to rest an ankle problem which has led to him playing through pain this season with Manchester City where he has struggled.

There will also be checks on the Crystal Palace pair of Marc Guehi and Adam Wharton who were both taken to hospital after last Saturday’s FA Cup Final. Both should be available for the England games on June 7 and 10 but Guehi suffered a suspected fractured eye socket – fears were later assuaged – while Wharton was concussed.

Tuchel will also reveal whether he is sticking to his promise of avoiding special favours for club managers by keeping the players from City, Chelsea, Real Madrid, Atletico Madrid and Bayern Munich due to travel to June’s Club World Cup. This could affect up to 12 players including captain and Bayern striker Harry Kane while Real’s Jude Bellingham is due to miss the first six weeks of next season when he has shoulder surgery after the tournament. That would rule him out of England’s qualifier at home to Andorra on September 6 and, more importantly, away to Serbia on September 9.

It had been anticipated that players scheduled to participate in the Club World Cup, which starts on June 15, five days after England’s friendly in Nottingham, would be released after the competitive fixture against Andorra but Tuchel is leaning towards keeping them for the entire camp and use the preparation time. He will make a final decision after further talks and checking with the players.

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/footbal...land-goalkeepers-pickford-trafford-henderson/

 

Tuchel unlikely to make deals over England call-ups
https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/articles/c4g288007q4o#comments

 

They asked Carsley in March and he didn’t sound too confident of keeping players that Tuchel wanted. There was also reports that Tuchel had decided to keep Anderson with the U21’s until September so he could go to the tournament. But no quotes of that.

 

Lets be honest there a strong chance some of these 'journalist' don't even know there's a U21 tournament taking place this summer.

 

Hopefully someone will ask him tomorrow if the likes of Trafford and/or Quansah are the seniors why they’re missing the U21’s.