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Michael Jones

Gareth Southgate explains reasons for Jack Grealish and James Maddison’s England squad omissions

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Gareth Southgate announced his official England squad for Euro 2024 on Thursday evening with the big news being the omissions of Jack Grealish and James Maddison, who were both in the squad at the last major tournament, the 2022 World Cup in Qatar.

The England boss named a 33-player preliminary squad for two warm-up matches against Bosnia and Herzegovina and Iceland knowing that he would need to cut seven players ahead of the tournament. The squad announcement was due to take place on Saturday morning but, as news filtered out of the camp that some big names had been cut, the FA brought forward the reveal.

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