Steve Clarke watched Scotland thrown in with Europe’s A listers here in Paris - then urged Cristiano Ronaldo, Luka Modric and Robert Lewandowski not to duck out of a Hampden swan song.
Clarke’s side came out of the top pot in the Nations League in Group 1 and will now face six games in three months against Portugal, Croatia and Poland - on the back of spending the summer at Euro 2024.
But he’s hoping old timers Ronaldo, Modric and Lewandowski don’t opt to hang up their boots after the finals in Germany. He said: “I want them all, I want them all.
I say that because you only have a short career and as a player myself I wanted to play against the best players. You want to be competitive against the top guys and test yourself against the best teams and the best players.