Today\u2019s major World Cup news has broken as England manager Thomas Tuchel has officially announced his squad for the upcoming tournament in North America.<\/strong><\/p>\n As expected, one big name to be left out is Manchester United defender Harry Maguire, as had previously been reported by BBC Sport ahead of the official confirmation.<\/p>\n DOWNLOAD THE OFFICIAL CAUGHTOFFSIDE APP FOR ALL THE LATEST & BREAKING UPDATES \u2013 STRAIGHT TO YOUR PHONE! ON APPLE<\/u><\/span> & GOOGLE PLAY<\/u><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n The 33-year-old posted to social media last night to express his surprise and disappointment at Tuchel\u2019s decision, while his mother Zoe also put out a post on X saying she was \u201cdisgusted\u201d.<\/p>\n See below for the full official England squad that will be heading to this summer\u2019s World Cup\u2026<\/p>\n Goalkeepers:<\/b> <\/span>Jordan Pickford (Everton), Dean Henderson (Crystal Palace), James Trafford (Manchester City)<\/p>\n Defenders:<\/b> <\/span>Reece James (Chelsea), Tino Livramento (Newcastle), Marc Guehi (Manchester City), Ezri Konsa (Aston Villa), John Stones (Manchester City), Jarell Quansah (Bayer Leverkusen), Nico O’Reilly (Manchester City), Dan Burn (Newcastle), Djed Spence (Tottenham Hotspur)<\/p>\n Midfielders:<\/b> <\/span>Declan Rice (Arsenal), Elliot Anderson (Nottingham Forest), Jude Bellingham (Real Madrid), Jordan Henderson (Brentford), Morgan Rogers (Aston Villa), Kobbie Mainoo (Manchester United)<\/p>\n Forwards:<\/b> <\/span>Harry Kane (Bayern Munich), Ivan Toney (Al-Ahli), Ollie Watkins (Aston Villa), Bukayo Saka (Arsenal), Noni Madueke (Arsenal), Marcus Rashford (Barcelona), Anthony Gordon (Newcastle), Eberechi Eze (Arsenal)<\/p>\n According to the Times, there could be multiple reasons for Maguire ultimately failing to make the England squad, with one of them tactical, and the other to do with his mentality.<\/p>\n The report suggests Tuchel wants to play a high line with more \u2018mobile\u2019 defenders, so it\u2019s probably fair to say that Maguire wouldn\u2019t be the best fit for that kind of system, though some might argue that he\u2019d still have an important role to play off the field, even if he didn\u2019t make it into the starting XI.<\/p>\n Another issue is supposedly the player\u2019s ego, according to the Times, with the reaction of Maguire and his family perhaps illustrating precisely why there are some question-marks over his character.<\/p>\n Want more CaughtOffside coverage? Add us as a <\/i><\/b>preferred source on Google<\/span><\/i><\/b> to your favourites list for news you can trust<\/i><\/b><\/p>\n England will also be without some big names in Cole Palmer and Phil Foden this summer \u2013 two elite talents capable of influencing the biggest games.<\/p>\n And yet, you could probably just about argue that they don\u2019t deserve to be included based on their recent form, even if it\u2019s a gamble that could really backfire if the Three Lions look like lacking spark in the final third.<\/p>\n Arguably more surprising are snubs for in-form players like Morgan Gibbs-White and Adam Wharton, whilst old favourites like Jordan Henderson continue to make it in.<\/p>\n \t\t\t
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Arsenal\u2019s Noni Madueke is also one of the more surprising inclusions after a pretty underwhelming season at the Emirates Stadium, so it seems perhaps hard to justify him being in there ahead of Palmer and Foden, even if they haven\u2019t been at their best.<\/p>\n Trent Alexander-Arnold has also missed out, having suffered a dip in form since leaving Liverpool for Real Madrid last summer.<\/p>\n \t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Thomas Tuchel has named England’s World Cup squad (Photo by Justin Setterfield, Alex Pantling\/Getty Images)…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":11820,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pagelayer_contact_templates":[],"_pagelayer_content":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11819","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-chelsea"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11819","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11819"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11819\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/11820"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11819"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11819"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11819"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Why did Harry Maguire miss out on England squad?<\/h2>\n
Will England regret snubs for Palmer and Foden?<\/h2>\n
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