Barney Ronay

But Arteta's understanding of just how demanding the Premier League is means that he felt the depth was more important.

And you have to say that's been vindicated.

It may be that if they bring in an improvement for Joachim, they suddenly do look a lot sharper and brighter next season.

It's fine.

And what I'm encouraged by is that Tuchel hasn't fallen into the trap that even Southgate fell into by the end of just picking the famous blokes.

England's big problem last year as I know they got to the final but they didn't play well they were very fortunate to get to the final was that everybody was trying to play in that number 10 space you had Foden coming in off the left you had Saka coming in off the right you had Harry Kane dropping deep you had Declan Rice pushing forward you had Bellingham who was actually playing there

He had Cole Palmer coming off the bench doing the same thing.

England have got loads of those players who want to end up in that space.

I know Kane had the back injury, which obviously didn't help, but one of the reasons he was less effective and we'd like him to be at the Euros was he didn't have people running beyond him.

Well, Tuchel has picked players who'll run beyond him, and they might not be as glamorous as Foden and Palmer.

Foden and Palmer haven't played well this season.

If you've decided we can only have three or four of that type of player,

Well, don't take six.

Make the hard call.

Trent Alexander-Arnold is obviously a great footballer.

He's quite an unusual right back.

He's not just a plug-in and play player.

So you either got to say, he's our starting right back.

Everybody else has to be accommodated around him.

Or you say, actually, we've got other right backs.