Gareth Southgate outlines England selection plan that will please Pep Guardiola and Man City

Gareth Southgate will rotate his England players for their four fixtures in June, giving Manchester City's five selected players time to recover from their Premier League title-winning excursions.

John Stones and Kyle Walker have been declared fit enough to be selected for England's Nations League clashes against Hungary, Germany, Italy and Hungry again in the first two weeks of June. Raheem Sterling, Phil Foden and Jack Grealish have also been named in the 27-man squad, which includes five right-backs and no left-backs.

Explaining his selection, Southgate says the larger squad is to allow for all players to get a mixture of playing time after a long, tiring season - something that may please Pep Guardiola, who is often concerned with his players being overworked on international duty and not getting enough rest between seasons.

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"We have picked extra numbers as we have quite a few doubts at the back," Southgate said of his defensive selections.

"It is a bit of a minefield, in terms of players who have missed football and are coming back from injuries. Luke Shaw and Ben Chilwell haven't played anything at all. Marc Guehi is a doubt.

"Fikayo [Tomori] has had a very good season with AC Milan and I talked in March about wanting to have a look at some of the young centre-backs coming through and some of these guys are slightly ahead of Tyrone [Mings], who has always played well for us. At the same time we have to make opportunities for good young players to have a look at them.

"I speak with a lot of the managers about different players. We've given all the players a week off this week which not everyone has done, but we feel like that has