Jordan Pickford

You know, it's a very, very valid debate.

Does Tuchel just not like Trent Alexander-Arnold?

Because you do think that, from the point of view of the international press pack, they will look at Trent Alexander-Arnold as being this very gifted, certainly offensive player who most countries would cry out for, at least in their squad and probably in their starting XI.

Yeah, I think it is a question that I'm sure will be asked.

How is Real Madrid's right back not in the England squad?

But I listened back, Rick, to when he spoke on the very first day that he spoke to us as England manager.

He did speak right back then about how it was his intention to put together the 26 players that made the best team and the best squad and who would not necessarily be the best 26 players who were available to him.

And, you know, he repeated that kind of thing on the day that he named his England squad.

And that's what he's got.

He has made his bed here with the 26 that he has picked and he will be judged on how they perform here.

Is there also a sense that Gerald Kwanzaa can come across and play at right-back?

Is there anything in the idea that he wants to bring in a player who isn't going to, for want of a better term of phrase, kick off if they don't get on the field of play?

If you bring in someone like Trent and then he doesn't get a single minute, is that going to create an atmosphere in a way that Trevor Chalabar coming in maybe won't?

Thomas Tuchel has spoken about having a plan, but also the need for flexibility.

What is that plan, John?

And do you have now an idea of that XI?

Well, as I said to him there in the interview, again, when he named the squad, he was talking about rotating the team in the group stages.

And, you know, as he kind of intimated there, that is the plan.

That plan might change.

But he's also spoken about having 14 to 15 starters.