Scotland Euro 2024 squad LIVE as Steve Clarke prepares to pick his players for Germany

It’s the day every player who fancies their chances of taking a flight to Germany has been dreaming about.

But who will be on that plane? Steve Clarke is poised to name his squad for Euro 2024 and the Tartan Army’s excitement is reaching fever pitch.

The Scotland boss will include 28 players in his provisional pool but will then whittle that down to 26 men for the tournament.

Clarke has a problem at right-back of course, with Aaron Hickey and Nathan Patterson seeing their hopes dashed by injury. There’s a clamour for Tino Livramento but the Newcastle United star is also injured so a shock call-up would appear unlikely. Does that then open the door for James Forrest? Quite possibly as the Celtic star has roared back to form.

Max Johnston of Sturm Graz is also in with a shout but will there be any surprise call-ups? All will be revealed as Clarke is poised to announce his squad.

Follow all the drama here LIVE ahead of Clarke then explaining his picks.

This is one to watch – will Clarke choose to take four keepers and then axing one or will he use his two places before cutdown to run the rule on genuine wildcards?

Don't hold us to this but here at Record Towers we reckon Angus Gunn and Zander Clarke are in but will it be Rangers-bound Liam Kelly or evergreen Craig Gordon who joins them?

Max Johnston is the hot name and the Sturm Graz star appears a good bet to make the cut. We'll soon find out.

The Scotland No.2 isn't expecting any wildcard announcements today.

I don’t think there is going to be any surprises. I would be very surprised if there is a surprise if that makes sense. But we have got a group of about 40 players that we have been looking at and obviously all the staff, but particularly Steve and myself, have