Gareth Southgate on his decision-making behind England's provisional Euro 2024 squad ✍

Gareth Southgate sits down with Rob Dorsett and explains his decision-making behind his provisional Euro 2024 squad for England.

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[Jimmo]

A summer of blasting out "it's coming home", quickly followed by disappointment and heartbreak. Can't beat it.

[gusqexj]

I have no problems with his England squad at all honestly

[CatGPT_]

If you ever have trouble sleeping, just listen to gareth southgate

[soldier_th_class]

Farley's impersonation looks very realistic in this interview

[johnhonai]

As a Man City fan, even I'm surprised by inclusion of Jack Grealish who has just 3 goals and 3 assists all season over Marcus Rashford who has 8 goals and 5 assists all season. I watch Grealish every match day you could argue his impact is beyond goals and assists, but that was while ago against Crystal Palace on 6th of April. I don't watch Rashford often except in derby which he scored. Just compared the stats for both players. Grealish has better pass completion percentage. Thats it.

Edit : Opinion completely personal. Other Man City fans may not share the same opinion.

[RichardJuukovsky]

Pointless waffle. The fact is, England have the highest scoring winger in premier league history if you exclude penalties, the second highest scorer for England of the players today, the highest assist provider, the player who almost single handedly dragged England to their first final in over half a century, the most reliable England player in high stake competition games, and so clearly most dangerous attacker in English football today not in the squad let alone the team. The idea any team can succeed to win a competition without a player that can deliver so much reliably to their game and be so influential to a teams success whether the rest of the team do not perform so well or not is called wishful thinking. We've seen Southgate take risks in finals and failed at every turn. He is unable to make constructive risks and is strongest when he uses common sense. Common sense would tell you Jude Belligham has excelled partnering Vinicias Junior at Real Madrid winning the Spanish League and in the final of the Champions League which should be amazing for England as England have a similar player to Vinicias Junior in the name of Raheem Sterling in the England team meaning they can understand each other very quickly and form an equally powerful partnership for the England attack. This is common sense. But what does he do? He takes Sterling out of the team depriving England of that obvious lethal attacking partnership. Common sense would tell you that with England getting to a final with Sterling as the driving force giving defenders nightmares on one wing and Saka still developing on the other, when Saka finally develops as he has today and so much better than that final and able to give defenders nightmares like Sterling, England with these two wingers would be giving defenders sleepless nights on both wings and be even more lethal than when getting to that final, so you play them both again now as a bigger threat than before. This again is common sense. But no, Southgate has decided to not play Sterling and play a lesser threat that has achieved nothing, but some good games for an average club for one season and has no experience of high stakes competition, or an alternative that has played for England, but achieved nothing special when playing for England and is not even the first choice for his club team. It's astonishing stuff. As for Palmer, a player that has scored an average number of goals in open play scoring 10 penalties he will not take for England to push up his stats, but more importantly failed to make the Man City team and was then sold, because although he was known by Man City to score goals is too much of a defensive liability to have in a team that wants to win things or be a top team, why in the world would a manager with any sense ignore these facts and like a novice want to consider putting him in his team just because pundits, commentators and the media choose to ignore the obvious facts and claim the manager who sold him has made a mistake despite the fact this manager is winning everything under the sun. Palmer does not understand defense, does not participate in defensive responsibilities, does not know how to balance defensive and offensive responsibilities and has no interest in understanding or participating in defensive responsibilities at a time in football when all 11 players have offensive responsibilities and all 11 players have defensive responsibilities and the team least efficient at utilising all 11 players for these offensive and defensive objectives loses. That is modern football and what is understood by all the top teams in league and international football as necessary to win competitions or leagues. But Southgate obviously thinks he is the exception and wishful thinking will get him over the line. Without Raheem Sterling in the team, I predict England will be knocked out of the competition in the Quarter finals at these Euros as we saw proved when Sterling did not play in the last World Cup, mark my words, so I won't even bother watching the games managed by stupidity that makes no sense forced on the manager by pressure from the media. Wishful thinking gets you nowhere. Peace and love

[JoeStocker]

Why does he get so much criticism? he has taken a team nowhere near as good as the golden generation to levels they never went to, we have a good team now but the defence is shocking.

[TomMatthias]

Man has Phil Foden and won’t use him correctly

[darmate]

England to coast through group stage (as always) with QF knockout

[FrankOBrien-tiny]

Where is Sancho? Or has he changed his nationality? The main player for Dortmund in their Champions League final.
Bellingham and Sancho together would be very interesting. Without him England won't qualify from the group.
Too much dead wood in that squad.

[LayDurafe]

Great work picking the squad, now stop talking about it and win a trophy. No trophy since 1966, anything outside of winning is a failure mate, no matter who you choose in the squad.

[VoiceOfThe]

Crossing my fingers he goes to Man Utd after the Euros.

Liverpool fan.

[simosimo-bqhi]

For all the Southgate haters, who else would you have as England manager that would realistically take the job ??

[htkooss]

Never mentioned the ward england at all

[stretchystretch]

It’s coming home in the pubs plastic cups only few weeks away

[snowleopard]

He is still there because of the nation`s love of " humbleness and decency " ....understand and good values in general ...but in sport niceness and decency dont get you across the line, sorry, ,

[blenderboy]

When are you going to hand in your resignation?

[Ibrahim]

the previous heart break the country have taken will be topped this summer because of the talent we have this time round. so sad

[towenaar]

We have the best player in Germany (Kane), England (Foden) and Spain (Bellingham).

If we don't win then its down to Southgate.

[Slim-MMA]

No Rashford could cost them the tournament.