If you are incredulous about the inclusion of Harry Maguire in the England squad then you have not been paying attention. This is international football, not FF.
If your immediate thought on seeing Gareth Southgate’s latest England squad was to incredulously turn to Twitter/WhatsApp/actual real-life friends and bemoan the inclusion of Harry Maguire then you really have no idea how international football works, and particularly international football just two months before a major tournament.
“We have picked on the basis of form and capability over a long period,” said Gareth Southgate and that is entirely how international squads should be picked. Players should not be thrown out or embraced after six games of football and particularly not stalwarts of a very successful side. England, that is, not Manchester United.
There may be a question to answer if Maguire is still not playing Premier League football in November, but the fragility of Raphael Varane means there is every chance that the Englishman will have been restored to Erik ten Hag’s back line long before then. The inclusion of Jarrod Bowen is perhaps a little harder to justify but Southgate has traditionally resisted giving players just one chance and he obviously saw enough in June to believe he deserved another. This is a bloated squad and you would imagine that Bowen is one of those right on the edge.
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