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Tuchel's England Chopping Block

ESPN FC

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Sports, Soccer

4.32.7K Ratings

🗓️ 22 May 2026

⏱️ 56 minutes

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Summary

The FC crew react to news that Cole Palmer, Phil Foden and Morgan Gibbs-White have been left off the England squad for the World Cup and question why Ivan Toney and Jordan Henderson were included. Plus, Julien Laurens celebrates Arsenal's Premier League title victory while Nedum Onuoha recaps Pep Guardiola's time at Manchester City. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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Welcome in to latest edition of ESPNFC.

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I'm Dan Thomas, joined by Shagah Hissoppies.

0:36.6

In a week, Of course, we've

0:37.5

been reflecting on international announcements for the World Cup squad. Friday was supposed

0:42.8

to be England. However, everyone knows it already. And what we do know is some of the big

0:49.5

names that have been left out. Here are the notable absentees. Phil Foden, Col Palmer, Morgan Gives White,

0:56.7

Adam Wharton, Luke Shaw, all standout and Harry Maguire. For more on this, let's welcome in,

1:03.0

shall we. Frank LeBuff, Nadine Mnouin and Julianneuron joins us. Jules, it was supposed to be Friday,

1:09.3

wasn't it? What's going on?

1:27.8

That's right, Dan, tomorrow morning 9.45. As often with those lists, there's a lot of things are leaking because Thomas Tuchel would have called some of the players on the list that we just showed who won't be going to the World Cup, for example, so they've known about it and they can obviously express their feelings on social media, talk to agents, we then talk to journalists,

1:34.5

talk to family members, who then talk to journalists. I think the FA itself and the England's

1:38.8

setup like for us with Frank in France, we often know a few hours before who is very likely to be in who is

1:46.0

guaranteed to be in who is not going to be in and things like that I think this is it's very

1:50.3

different for each country some don't say anything and don't leak anything and everybody

1:54.8

finds at the same time a bit like what we saw with Brazil and Carlo and Chalotti for others

1:59.0

more in Europe it's a little bit more freestyling let let's say. Right then. Nadenham, you're the Englishman on the panel. You get to speak for us all. Let's start, shall we, with the absence of, where should we start? Should we, like, Cole Palmer's a surprise, isn't it? Is it, no? Yes and no. I think Col Palmer's had a dis- No,

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