Chelsea to tug Reece James OUT of this month’s England squad because the defender builds up his health after a long-term damage… leaving Luke Shaw because the ONLY full-back in Gareth Southgate’s get together
- Chelsea will withdraw defender Reece James from the England squad
- The Chelsea defender remains to be in particular person coaching following a spell out injured
- Gareth Southgate now has only one full-back in his squad in Luke Shaw
Chelsea will pull Reece James out of the England squad, leaving Luke Shaw as the one specialist full-back in Gareth Southgate’s get together.
James’ supervisor Thomas Tuchel revealed the information after the right-back missed his crew’s 2-0 win towards Middlesbrough in Saturday’s FA Cup quarter-final on the Riverside.
And with Liverpool’s Trent Alexander-Arnold having additionally pulled out of Southgate’s preliminary 25-man squad, there’s additionally no right-back within the group.
Chelsea have revealed that they’ll withdraw defender Reece James from the England squad
Tuchel confirmed on Saturday evening that Chelsea’s technical and sporting director Petr Cech was contacting Southgate with the information.
‘Petr Cech may have this chat. As a result of the advice is that he doesn’t go,’ mentioned Tuchel. ‘He’s nonetheless in particular person coaching, in any other case we might have introduced him to Lille and we’d have introduced him right here for positive. There isn’t any doubt about it.
Thomas Tuchel acknowledged that James remains to be in particular person coaching following a spell out injured, and it leaves Gareth Southgate (proper) with just one out there full-back
‘He’s nonetheless in particular person coaching, he wants another week of rehabilitation and I feel we will present this significantly better — it isn’t the job of the nationwide crew to do that.’
Southgate opted to not choose Manchester Metropolis’s Kyle Walker for the friendlies towards Switzerland and Ivory Coast on the finish of the month, though he had promised to deliver him again for video games in June.
Nevertheless, Manchester United left-back Shaw is now the one recognised full-back remaining in Southgate’s squad — though Metropolis’s John Stones has stuffed in at right-back in current weeks for his membership.