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When will the England squad be named for Euro 2024?
That is very much TBC. Southgate intends to choose a ‘training squad’ on May 21 but is unsure how many players he will pick for that.
The deadline for submission of final Euro 2024 squads is June 7, as teams must submit their list of 23 players at least seven days before the opening match of the tournament.
How big will the squad be?
Squad sizes for Euro 2024 will be reduced back to 23 after they were increased to 26 for Euro 2020 and the 2022 World Cup to account for disruption caused by the Covid-19 pandemic.
What is the latest England news?
By Mike McGrath
Southgate is considering backing a call from other coaches to take an expanded 26-strong squad to Euro 2024 because of England’s injury crisis.
Uefa is holding a coaches’ meeting the week after next to discuss how the tournament works. A final decision will be taken on whether to reduce the number of players that can be selected from 26 to 23.
Until now Southgate has been in favour of the previously expected reduction – the increase for the last Euros and the World Cup in Qatar was due to Covid and the demanding schedule – but may now change his mind.
Other coaches are likely to raise the issue of maintaining a bigger squad and Southgate said although Uefa had appeared intent on 23-man squads, it faces a challenge.
“There is one more Uefa meeting where there’s been a little bit of talk amongst some of the coaches about possibly increasing that,” the England manager said. Asked specifically if he favoured it, he added: “Well, given where we are now!”
Southgate continued: “But we’ve got to make the best decisions with what we know and some of those currently are going to be medical decisions. And we’ve been able to get those right in the previous tournaments. We’ve been able to give people time, but with 23 that’s definitely more difficult.”
England have come out of the international break, and the friendly internationals against Brazil and Belgium, with no fewer than 15 players unavailable and with Southgate declaring it was the worst injury situation he has faced during his eight years in charge.
