hello and welcome to sportsday i m hugh ferris. the headlines this evening. 33 has become 26 harry maguire and jack grealish among those who miss out on england s squad for euro 202a. in the end it wasn t as close as some of the decisions it helps to give. var will stay in the premier league, whose clubs vote overwhelmingly to back it. another step towards three in a row. iga swiatek makes the final of the french open, where she ll playjasmine paolini. also coming up on sportsday. britain s best weightlifter will be team gb s only weightlifter in paris, but emily campbell wants another olympic medal. and we hearfrom the england rugby player who claims her career wouldn t have been the same without breast reduction surgery. losing two kilograms off of your chest does make a difference, i have to say. my first round after surgery six weeks after i felt like a new person. and then there were 26. gareth southgate had until the end of tomorrow to name his final squad for the
who also won t be making the trip to germany. curtis jones, jarrell quansah, jarrad branthwaite, and james trafford. albeit for different reasons it s maguire and grealish who are the headline omissions. harry has made some progress, but it has been complicated and we definitely would not have had him in the group stages and there were too many hurdles to get through without really being clear on where we make it to. given that we have not got a clean bill of health across the rest of the backline as well, then that became, we need to cover in players who are fit and ready to go from the start. so another really difficult call. you know how i feel about harry maguire and what he has done for england and what he has done for me as a manager. of course, they give us something different as well.
Slot has done wonders in the Netherlands with Feyenoord especially and was targeted by FSG's football CEO Michael Edwards and the new sporting director Richard Hughes for a number of reasons.
Jurgen Klopp is not afraid to play the kids. His squads and first XIs are regularly littered with academy graduates and youth players, many of whom have gone on to forge successful careers in the game, at Liverpool or elsewhere.