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Southgate will not rest England starters and risk ‘shambles’ going into Euro 2024

Gareth Southgate will not risk a “shambles” at England’s next Euro 2024 qualifying camp by resting players after a long season. The manager was delighted at how his team began the campaign with wins against Italy in Naples and Ukraine at Wembley and has started to think about the fixtures in the summer.

England face Malta away on 16 June before entertaining North Macedonia at Old Trafford three days later. The final round of Premier League games is on 28 May, with the FA Cup final on 3 June. The Europa League final is on 31 May and the Champions League final on 10 June, meaning Southgate’s players will have breaks of varying lengths before Malta and North Macedonia.

It is easy to imagine they will not be overjoyed at having their seasons extended into the second half of June but Southgate wants nothing to halt the momentum that has been built.

“We should always pick our strongest possible squad,” he said. “We’re representing England. Caps have to be earned. Harry Kane won’t want to miss England matches in the summer – I’ll tell you that now. There’s physical freshness and there’s psychological freshness and I think psychological is key.

“They’ll get a break before they come and we’ve talked with them about that to make that work in the best possible way. If we don’t select certain players it sends the wrong message to the group. Then what’s to stop others pulling out and you could end up with a shambles pretty quickly. We’ve got to make sure we get June right. We’ve given ourselves a great start to the group and we need to capitalise on that.”

Southgate’s tenure and how he has transformed the culture around the squad is to be the subject of a play written by James Graham and staged at the National Theatre. The manager

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