Kobbie Mainoo, Marcus Rashford, Cole Palmer handed boost in Euro 2024 hopes?
National teams were allowed to take 26 players to the 2022 World Cup in Qatar and to Euro 2020 after the coronavirus pandemic led to a congested calendar for clubs across the globe, particularly in Europe.
A host of European managers including Three Lions boss Gareth Southgate, Netherlands coach Ronald Koeman and Germany's Julian Nagelsmann are all in favour of having larger squads for this summer's Euros, the former of whom expressed his views following England's 2-2 friendly draw with Belgium on Tuesday.
Southgate, who named a 26-man England squad for this month's international break, told reporters: «It's inevitable we're going to be naming a longer squad, which is what we did before the Euros here (in 2021) even though we were dealing with 26 then.
»There is one more UEFA meeting where there's been a little bit of talk amongst some of the coaches about possibly increasing that [squad size].
«We've got to make the best decisions with what we know and some of those currently are going to be medical decisions. And we've been able to get those right in the previous tournaments.
»We've been able to give people time, but with 23 that's definitely more difficult."
In response to the pleas of managers, UEFA have confirmed that their views on national team squad sizes will be «considered» ahead of Euro 2024.
A statement from UEFA released on Friday read: «We have taken note of comments expressed by some national team coaches on the squad size for Euro 2024.
»A workshop with the participating teams will be held on April 8
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