England Squad announcement, 9:45am, Friday, May 22nd

Hope we have 3 better keepers than pope

Maguire apparently out, very surprising.

Maguire out according to Talksport.

Wharton will be included, imo. Colwill was an impetuous card magnet when he was younger, but he seems to have improved and played well since coming back from injury. He has a decent chance.
Gibbs-Wite deserves a shot, Burn no thanks, Calvert-Llewin probably not, imo. Spence & Solnake maybe not.

I'm ahead of talksport

I'm a slow typer. So, maybe not.

Foden out of squad

Tomori out madueke in...

Luke Shaw not included, don't think that's a surprise though

What is the point of a squad announcement when it is all leaked before , obviously the players that are out have cried and told everyone .

So you can captain them in fantasy football... Lol
will be trying to injure squad members, perhaps.

(Casemiro out of man utd wk 38 by all accounts)

Wharton omission the only real surprise for me, so far.

Trent hasn't made it

Me too Des, that's very disappointing I must say.

Ivan Toney - in
Harry McGuire - out

Foden out, Palmer out?

Palmer out.

not entirely surprised at Palmer. A year ago he would've been a shoe-in, but some indifferent performances in Chelsea's poor season have done for him.

Foden was mentioned abouve

Ivan Toney in ? that's a big surprise, he wasn't apart of the last squad.

Good decisions on Foden & Palmer imo.

at least they made the provisional 56 squad, So, there is that.

Mainoo in

So if there's no Foden or Palmer, that means Rogers and Gibbs-White are in?

Looks like he's really picking players in form with match fitness.

Pep has basically cost Foden a World Cup place.

Lewis Hall out?
Dan Burn in?

White smoke spotted at Nick Pope's house

Pleased for Dan Burn if that's true, remember him saying when at Brighton, he was in the car with his dad when the Saudi's took over, and he said to his dad "they're not going to sign a  Dan Burn now are they?" scored in the their league cup final at Wembley, hadn't even made his England debut either til the age of 32.

Geezer don’t know what he’s doing including Tony and leaving out some of those he has.

Slab is good for corners in the last minutes and takes a penalty, Colwill is Joggerll

The biggest shame is that Mason Greenwood has never had a look in.

Looks like Gibbs-White is not in according to some journos.

Some other mugs on twitter saying Anderson is not in, they must want people to unfollow them because that cannot be true surely.

Somewhat shocked Palmer is out..the other's a lot less so..

Maguire has no right to be 'shocked' - he was told he was 5th choice CB a while ago..

Foden has been on the periphery for Citeh and has rarely shone for England despite his obvious talent..

Palmer has had a difficult season managing an injury so might benefit from not going but still surprised..

hoping Watkins gets in as I think he deserves it and gives a very different option through the middle and especially an option if goes go to ET and get stretched.

I'd have picked Toney myself.  Was debating in the pub that he should go but didn't expect him to go.  You very likely don't win the WC without winning a penalty shoot out at some point.

If Lewis Hall is out that really surprises me.  Not shocked by Palmer or Foden

If Lewis Hall isn't in who's the second left back?

Livramento or Lewis SKelly maybe..even Dan Burn



like Liv' tbf

actually O'Reilly I guess is the obvious choice...would be useful against lesser teams as can move in to mf as well..

Surely Livramento is in as a RB if he's fit enough.  RBs are all injured or coming off injuries aren't they?  MLS can't defend and Lewis Hall gives you natural width and balance as a left footer.  I thought Hall had been playing well too?

I'd certainly have taken Lewis Hall but Liv'has played LB as well as RB..(right footed)

I misread your original post btw..so I guess O'Reilly as 1st choice ?    maybe Lewis-Skelly or Burn also in the equation, even Konsa can play there (right footed)

Pickford Henderson Trafford

James Livramento Guehi Konsa Quansah WTF!! Stones O'Reilly Burn

Rice Anderson Bellingham Henderson Rogers Mainoo

Kane Toney Watkins Saka Madueke Rashford Gordon Eze

Leaves one place for TAA MLS or Garner apparently

don't think he fancies Trent ?

Garner on merit maybe deserves it but MLS covers positions beyond a default..

How many Newc fans would pick Burn or Livramento at LB ahead of Hall?

Good question - though on the thread currently (Newcastle) is that his form has dipped a bit..I've not seen full 90's of Newcastle for a good few weeks so no idea on his true recent form..

Widely reported Trent hasn't made it, which makes sense as we need a defender who can defend.

There's Livramento who can play right back, and first choice Reece James, though Livramento will play left back looking at the projected squad list, can't see any other left back as back up apart from O'Reilly but he's been playing further forward for City for ages, which is why Hall apparently not making it is very strange. Burn has played left back a few times this season, but you don't really want a bean pole playing that position.

Trafford expected to be the 3rd keeper behind Pickford and Henderson.

Quansah is apparently in along with Stones, one player who finished 6th in the tin pot league in Germany, and the other barely fit, I wonder if that is true, but every respected journo is going with Stones.

Maguire a big surprise really, would have taken him over Burn or Quansah as centre back option.

O'Reilly has played as a nominal LB for Citeh most of the time (false LB if you will) - especially at group stage there may be a view to use him like that..

James, Guehi. Konsa, O'Reiily is not a bad back four by any stretch...if he went that way..

I think Cole Palmer badly needs a break.  Although part of me would have selected him for his penalty record

I just read up to see Clydebank had probably just read the same BBC predicted squad list I had just looked at.

Does anyone really want Trent in the side, he works under a Klopp system, but that's not Tuchel. Southgate was even right, he's a liability at the back and he's not going to play as some kind of wing back or out and out winger, Sake will be playing down the right hand side of attack. So really he'd be a waste of a place, though not confirmed if he is actually being left out yet.

I'd be surprised if he's in - not least on his RM season which makes him quite an easy omission..but he remains one of England's most gifted footballers imo..quite where you would play him against any decent side I'm not sure..

Foden not being selected is completely down to Pep, he's cost him his place at the World Cup, he was in the side for a while earlier in the season, then Pep does what he does, inexplicably drops him.

Just to go off on a slight tangent, same with Cherki, everyone heaping praise on him recently, likening him to Hazard, and how Pep has allowed him freedom to roam, then he just randomly starts benching him.

Reijnders was voted best midfield player in Italy before he joined City, signs him but can't get a kick.

I think this is the first time Pep has gone 2 years in a row with a league title, probably past his best.

If I was a player not selected for the world cup I'd be delighted to get a nine week break.

Jed Spence

Who thought having this Gerrymonger was a good idea?!

Fire him now!

How many donkeys he taking?

No Shaw, no Slab he don’t want us to get of of the group!

Henderson



FC this bloke

There has been some comment that Maguire is not a good team player off the pitch and his reaction suggests that he thinks of himself before the team. I watch football but I am not a fanatic. There are a couple of names there that I barely recognise. The most miserable looking person in the squad is surely Tuchel. He always looks to me like he is really ill. He would not be in my list of the best 40 managers around.

He’s picked some odd ones Sage and players who haven’t even played a part in the warm ups.

Saka has had a bad season looks knackered, Stines hasn’t even been playing, Wellbeck has had a better season than Watkins, it’s shocking.

England's 2026 World Cup squad:

Goalkeepers: Jordan Pickford (Everton), Dean Henderson (Crystal Palace), James Trafford (Manchester City)

Defenders: Reece James (Chelsea), Tino Livramento (Newcastle), Marc Guehi (Manchester City), Ezri Konsa (Aston Villa), John Stones (Manchester City), Jarell Quansah (Bayer Leverkusen), Nico O'Reilly (Manchester City), Dan Burn (Newcastle), Djed Spence (Tottenham)

Midfielders: Declan Rice (Arsenal), Elliot Anderson (Nottingham Forest), Jude Bellingham (Real Madrid), Jordan Henderson (Brentford), Morgan Rogers (Aston Villa), Kobbie Mainoo (Manchester United), Eberechi Eze (Arsenal)

Forwards: Harry Kane (Bayern Munich), Ivan Toney (Al Ahli), Ollie Watkins (Aston Villa), Bukayo Saka (Arsenal), Noni Madueke (Arsenal), Marcus Rashford (Barcelona, on loan from Manchester United), Anthony Gordon (Newcastle)

Roman Emperor sign to the above  - Thumb Down

Ivan Toney

Ivan Toney's agent on his way to the post box with a brown envelope... 1.01.

Not one Liverpool player (when was the last time that happened?) included.

He's seen them in training I guess.

I'd have picked the same bar Hall and Maguire myself for Spence and Quansah.  Guess Quansah has vastly improved since the Liverpool and under 21 version at Leverkusen

Klopp Slot and Liverpool fans will be scratching his head for sure

Liverpool players feature prominently in the Dutch squad

we dont have many english players - curtis, rio ??

glad to see henderson is there to make the cups of tea

Says alot about Liverpools home grown recruitment I suppose.

Henderson there for his leadership attitude and experience.  I agree with that personally

id have probably taken Maguire for that

wouldnt have played much but apparently a very sound chap

Henderson's had his day.

As Henderson made it, Milner must have been a cünt hair away from a call-up.

❌ Cole Palmer
❌ Harry Maguire
❌ Lewis Hall
❌ Morgan Gibbs-White
❌ Adam Wharton
❌ Phil Foden
❌ Jarrod Bowen
❌ Alex Scott
❌ Trent Alexander-Arnold
❌ Luke Shaw
❌ Fikayo Tomori

How many of Tuchel's squad would make Farage's squad?

Maguire and his family should have said nothing, if there's an injury and there always seems to be, he could have been first replacement, but Tuchel looked irked when he was told about the statements and comments from his family so that's his chance completely gone.

Don't understand how Stones is going though, no match fitness, no form, not the player he used to be.

Lewis Hall people are raging about, done nothing for months. But then neither has Stones.

James Garner is a shocking omission.

English managers pick individuals ,German managers pick teams ,8 world cup finals with a 50% success rate is far preferable to the 100% success rate England have in finals. England's price is the best back to lay bet of the world cup.

German managers have a much smaller pool of international quality players. Nagelsmann would give his wife's left t1t for the players Tuchel is leaving at home.

That's a great point Jack. Southgate, Hodgson and Mcclaren would 1005 have picked an out of form Palmer and Foden.

Rooney himself admitted that he told Southgate not to pick because he was out of form, saying players got there on name only.

Sometimes they get picked so you don't upset them, for
next tournament, when they are in form, and don't retire.

Maybe Tuchel doesn't care about next tournament, just
this one, but maybe that's right thing,...

60 years of pain, jules rimet still gleaming

got to be worst squad sent to a world cup

❌ Cole Palmer.................out of form, carrying an injury
❌ Harry Maguire..............should have been droppped years ago
Lewis Hall.....................too inconsistent
❌ Morgan Gibbs-White...........good player
❌ Adam Wharton.................decent player but just not good enough
❌ Phil Foden..................never done it for England, glad he hasnt gone
❌ Jarrod Bowen.................good player, should have gone imo
❌ Alex Scott....................not good enough
❌ Trent Alexander-Arnold........not good enough as a full back or as a wing back
❌ Luke Shaw.....................surprised he hasnt gone but maybe he just doent fit in with the rest?
❌ Fikayo Tomori.................not good enough

We all have our favourites and we all have our opinions.

Its a cracking squad that he's taking to the WC.

Go back to the 2018 WC squad ... Kane 24 Dele Alli 23 and Sterling 22.  Kane had the least number of caps of the three

Wharton or Henderson, hmmm

Spence, hmmm

Trent as a finisher on the right, when we need a difference,
is a no brainer, as fullbacks are struggling to do 90 mins
these days.

But, yeah, decent squad

Thats why you know nothing about football donny, come and watch dirty Leeds and be educated.

I saw them jinxy, way back when, with garters

Reaney never got enough caps, same problem years later

60 years of pain.

Good luck to those selected.

I don't see any problem with anyone left out, maybe bar Maguire, fit, in form, confidence, whereas John Stones, deemed not good enough for City that's way past it's best, and has no form or fitness.

But that's about it.

Foden and Palmer have been either non existent or awful.

Gibbs-White maybe harsh but really if you have Bellingham and Rogers in that position, you don't need Gibbs-White.

Bowen maybe hard done by, but he hasn't been at his best, playing in a poor West Ham team tbf, but he's really missed out to Madueke, which felt 50/50.

I think Eddie Howe has cost both Ramsdale and Pope a real chance, by chopping and changing, and generally having a poor season by their recent standards.

toney- seriously after playing in mickey mouse league ???
burn - barely prem level
livramento - be injured
stones  - see above
spence  - not good enough
quansah - 1 cap, really ?
henderson -  nah, too old
gordon   - limited,  ok v Panama  possibly

Toney won the Asian Champions League, gotta count for something
Burn doesn't fil you with confidence, but he wont be starting games will he, he's a last 10 minutes guy to offer something up top from a set piece. Good character and leader to help keep younger players in check imo, same with Henderson.
Spence is lucky really.
Haven't seen much of Quansah.
Think Gordon is really back up Rashford, who else would be back up left side of attack?
Stones shouldn't be there imo.

Henderson and Stones, do me a favour

It really just shows it is a foreign premier league now , only just over 50 english qualified players started half the games . thats why you have players that dont start or play in a pub league being picked

To those saying it looks a decent squad, of course it looks a decent squad, it's England, there's a huge pool of quality to choose from, the question is whether it could look better and the answer is an emphatic YES.

No one will agree on all the squad but I would've taken a younger
player than Henderson.Few left out must be gutted for him to be
getting the nod.

It looks like he's tried to crow bar in as many crocks as possible, it looks a shocker to me.

United should have held of on the Carrick appointment, this guy might be available after all.

SirNorbertClarke22 May 26 12:28Joined: 11 Aug 21 | Topic/replies: 17,305 | Blogger: SirNorbertClarke's blog
James Garner is a shocking omission.

Have to agree Nobby. Obviously i am biased but Garner has been Everton's most consistent performer over the past two seasons, has a real eye for a pass and can also cover at full back if required (he played there throughout the U21's victorious Euros campaign last year).  To see the likes of Henderson getting picked instead must be very dispiriting.

I think Cole Palmer is very unlucky as well despite what others have said about his fitness and lack of form. He has still managed to score 9 prem goals despite missing a third of the season which is obviously down on his usual stats but still fair for a midfielder/winger. DCL and Watkins are both out and out strikers and each have 14 goals  having played more games than Palmer. So i think he can feel aggrieved at not getting in.

The defence really worries me, the likes of Spence and Quansah are presumably only back ups but the fact they are in the squad shows the lack of quality available.

Having said that, England have a real opportunity to win it this time as there are no real stand out teams. The bookies have left them unchanged at a general 6/1 third favs which is a bit miserly but probably about right.

Gordon Banks
George Cohen
Ray Wilson
Nobby Stiles
Jack Charlton
Bobby Moore (captain)
Alan Ball
Jimmy Greaves
Bobby Charlton
Geoff Hurst
John Connelly
Ron Springett
Peter Bonetti
Jimmy Armfield
Gerry Byrne
Martin Peters
Ron Flowers
Norman Hunter
Terry Paine
Ian Callaghan
Roger Hunt
George Eastham

Lots of those are going to be injured during the tournie.

Couldn't trust bonetti, meself, you'd worry if banks got injured.

I saw Jamie Redcrap go to Liverpool with Solizie the other night. Whilst in the café there he saw two international players going to the Workd Cup.

He asked them who they feared in the tournament, neither said England!

McAllister laughed as Redcrap when he said you don’t give us a squeek?!

Can you imagine if he was asking now that the squad has been released?

Maybe Jamie wouldn’t have bothered asking now!