{"id":9690,"date":"2025-04-11T02:53:09","date_gmt":"2025-04-11T02:53:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/9690\/"},"modified":"2025-04-11T02:53:09","modified_gmt":"2025-04-11T02:53:09","slug":"thomas-tuchel-made-england-stars-play-traitors-game-in-first-camp-prompting-love-cheat-kyle-walker-into-shock-admission","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/9690\/","title":{"rendered":"Thomas Tuchel made England stars play Traitors game in first camp prompting love cheat Kyle Walker into shock admission"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>ENGLAND boss Thomas Tuchel got his Three Lions stars to play a version of BBC TV hit The Traitors at their first training camp.<\/p>\n<p>And this time love-rat defender <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thesun.co.uk\/who\/kyle-walker\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Kyle Walker<\/a> was telling the truth when he said he was a Faithful.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"#\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Thomas Tuchel, new England manager, sitting in a locker room.\" height=\"640\" width=\"960\" data-credit=\"\" data-img=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/mr_20241016_0552_lhndxnno-JS981739536.jpg\" data-caption=\"Thomas Tuchel got his Three Lions stars to play a version of BBC TV hit The Traitors at their first training camp\"   loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/mr_20241016_0552_lhndxnno-JS981739536.jpg\" role=\"img\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>2<\/p>\n<p>Thomas Tuchel got his Three Lions stars to play a version of BBC TV hit The Traitors at their first training camp<a href=\"#\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Kyle Walker of England during an England v Albania soccer match.\" height=\"960\" width=\"640\" data-credit=\"\" data-img=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/GETTY_England-v-Albania-European-Qualifiers-Group-K-FIFA-World-Cup-2026_SPO_GYI2206303478jpg-JS9.jpg\" data-caption=\"Love-rat defender Kyle Walker was telling the truth when he said he was a Faithful\"   loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/GETTY_England-v-Albania-European-Qualifiers-Group-K-FIFA-World-Cup-2026_SPO_GYI2206303478jpg-JS9.jpg\" role=\"img\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>2<\/p>\n<p>Love-rat defender Kyle Walker was telling the truth when he said he was a Faithful<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thesun.co.uk\/sport\/football\/team\/1302934\/ac-milan\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">AC Milan<\/a> star has two children by his former mistress \u2014 and was forced to admit that finding wrong \u2019uns is harder than he imagined.<\/p>\n<p>Real Madrid star <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thesun.co.uk\/who\/jude-bellingham\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Jude Bellingham<\/a> was quickly outed as a Traitor, soon followed by skipper <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thesun.co.uk\/who\/harry-kane\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Harry Kane<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>But goalie <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thesun.co.uk\/who\/jordan-pickford\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Jordan Pickford<\/a>, midfielder <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thesun.co.uk\/who\/morgan-gibbs-white\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Morgan Gibbs-White<\/a> and striker <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thesun.co.uk\/topic\/dominic-solanke\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Dominic Solanke<\/a> all went under the radar.<\/p>\n<p>Kyle said: \u201cYou get to see a few of the characters.<\/p>\n<p>Read more on Thomas Tuchel<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnd I think, for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thesun.co.uk\/who\/thomas-tuchel\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Tuchel<\/a> as well, it was more of a squad-building exercise. He could see who was vocal and stuff like that.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s a good bit of fun, trying to convince people if you are a Faithful or a Traitor. It brought the squad together.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He revealed the inside story of German <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thesun.co.uk\/who\/thomas-tuchel\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Tuchel\u2019s<\/a> first <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thesun.co.uk\/sport\/football\/team\/1196702\/england\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">England<\/a> camp in the second episode of The Kyle Walker Podcast on the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thesun.co.uk\/topic\/bbc\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">BBC<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The footie star, below, who has won 95 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thesun.co.uk\/sport\/football\/team\/1196702\/england\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">England<\/a> caps, explained: \u201cI sat next to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thesun.co.uk\/topic\/harry-kane\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Harry Kane<\/a> and Jordan Pickford \u2014 next to two Traitors.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnd I\u2019m talking to them, saying, \u2018You\u2019re not a Traitor, are you?\u2019 Harry Kane\u2019s like, \u2018No, I\u2019m not a Traitor\u2019. I believed him.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPickers, normally when he\u2019s the Traitor he goes bright red. When I asked him, he was bang still. He\u2019s lost his redness, so he\u2019s become better at lying.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;That was missing&#8217; &#8211; Brutally blunt Thomas Tuchel reveals disappointment in Rashford and Foden&#8217;s England performances<\/p>\n<p>Kyle, who has an elbow injury and could be out for the rest of the season, also told of his desperation to reach 100 England caps.<\/p>\n<p>He said: \u201cThe hundred is getting closer, which is a massive objective.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI look back to when I first started with Fabio Capello and to think all those years ago, I probably said I wanted to get to 25 caps.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThen you surpass 25 caps, you\u2019re looking for the 50. And I was on 49 and got sent off. And then you\u2019re thinking it\u2019s all over.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSo to get these caps in the last two games, it was great.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He praised former England boss Sir <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thesun.co.uk\/topic\/gareth-southgate\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Gareth Southgate<\/a>, but said with Tuchel, it was \u201ca new way\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>And he warned: \u201cLike they say, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thesun.co.uk\/topic\/rome\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Rome<\/a> wasn\u2019t built in a day. So it\u2019s going to take a little bit of time.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ENGLAND boss Thomas Tuchel got his Three Lions stars to play a version of BBC TV hit The&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":9691,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5008],"tags":[884,192,193,748,6572,393,4884,4149,883,189,118,6365,6573,6574,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-9690","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-england","8":"tag-ac-milan","9":"tag-bbc","10":"tag-bbc-one","11":"tag-britain","12":"tag-claudia-winkleman","13":"tag-england","14":"tag-great-britain","15":"tag-harry-kane","16":"tag-kyle-walker","17":"tag-section-sportfootball","18":"tag-the-sun-newspaper","19":"tag-the-traitors","20":"tag-thomas-tuchel","21":"tag-uefa-nations-league","22":"tag-uk","23":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114317072983923036","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9690","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=9690"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9690\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9691"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9690"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9690"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9690"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}