00:00Aston Villa's changing squad has now been reflected in England's latest selection, with no current Villa player included in Thomas
00:08Tuchel's 27-man squad.
00:11Concer, a regular England international during his time at Villa, completed his move to Champions Arsenal, while Watkins left for
00:20Saudi Arabian side Al-Hilal, although Oli Watkins himself has been omitted from the latest squad as well.
00:27Morgan Rodgers, another Villa player who featured for England, has also moved on to Chelsea, and that means Villa go
00:34into the latest international break without a representative in the senior England squad.
00:40It is a significant change from earlier in the year, when Villa had multiple players involved with the Three Lions.
00:48Here is what Thomas Tuchel had to say about his selection.
00:55OK, good morning everyone. Welcome to Wembley Stadium for this media conference to unveil the England squad for the fourth
01:02coming UEFA Nations League fixtures.
01:03Cobby Mayne, who's in the squad again after not featuring in the summer. Do you expect him to get on
01:09the pitch across these four games?
01:10Yes, I think that's, yeah, I expect him to be on the pitch and it's my duty to put him
01:14on the pitch. That was totally on me. I didn't, he didn't put a foot wrong in the World Cup.
01:19He was, he was class in behaviour and on the training pitch.
01:23It was a big competition. We played then also Reesy in centre midfield. Elliot Anderson is fantastic for us. Declan
01:32Rice is a very unique player.
01:34So we trusted them more than we trusted Cobby. It was difficult for him. It was on me. He got
01:41injured before the France game. So we could not even give him minutes there, which hurt me.
01:48Maybe he was more hurt than me, but it was my responsibility and it's my responsibility to reward him for
01:54that.
01:55You mentioned earlier that Cole Palmer's got his numbers back and that's one of the reasons that he's in the
02:00squad. A player who didn't make the squad, who's got a lot of numbers in 2026 is Morgan Gibbs-White.
02:06How close was he to making the squad this time?
02:08Close, but it's always the same. No, it makes no sense to nominate three, four, five, number tens. It just
02:14does not help anyone.
02:16We can see the form. We can see the form that Morgan is in and he ended the season very,
02:24very strongly and was the key player for Forrest to not be relegated.
02:31And yeah, we can see him stepping up now. It is one thing to be nominated, by the way, like
02:39with Cole and getting your ticket back in the squad.
02:41But it's another thing to perform for England. And this also counts, so especially also Cole needs to step up
02:48when he comes and needs to show these kind of numbers and these kind of performances to get his place,
02:56to keep his shirt and to justify the nomination.
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