{"id":838534,"date":"2026-03-20T13:57:20","date_gmt":"2026-03-20T13:57:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/838534\/"},"modified":"2026-03-20T13:57:20","modified_gmt":"2026-03-20T13:57:20","slug":"real-madrid-superstar-still-not-in-the-squad-england-manager-thomas-tuchel-surprises-with-an-xxl-squad-and-an-unusual-plan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/838534\/","title":{"rendered":"Real Madrid superstar still not in the squad! England manager Thomas Tuchel surprises with an XXL squad and an unusual plan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Meanwhile, Tuchel plans to &#8220;split his XXL squad into two groups&#8221; at the training camp, he said, adding: &#8220;In one group, we\u2019ll bring in players we haven\u2019t seen yet and who haven\u2019t played much so far, to boost competition for places in the World Cup squad for the USA.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Tuchel elaborated on his plans: \u201cFrom Friday or Saturday, a group that has previously had a break will join the training camp. We will go into the match against Japan with a new group of players.\u201d Ultimately, 26 players may be included in the squad for the finals.<\/p>\n<p>In the World Cup group stage (11 June to 19 July), the co-favourites in Group L will face Ghana, Croatia and Panama.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Meanwhile, Tuchel plans to &#8220;split his XXL squad into two groups&#8221; at the training camp, he said, adding:&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":838535,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5008],"tags":[748,3019,393,86329,4884,7325,544,23156,54989,16,15,1514],"class_list":{"0":"post-838534","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-england","8":"tag-britain","9":"tag-bundesliga","10":"tag-england","11":"tag-friendlies","12":"tag-great-britain","13":"tag-laliga","14":"tag-real-madrid","15":"tag-t-alexander-arnold","16":"tag-t-tuchel","17":"tag-uk","18":"tag-united-kingdom","19":"tag-world-cup"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/116261856809168189","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/838534","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=838534"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/838534\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/838535"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=838534"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=838534"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=838534"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}