Gareth Southgate fearful Champions League final will wreck England’s Nations League plans
added: “We qualified months ago and what a great opportunity to win something — and then you don’t actually get the team together.
“And with the emotion of the Champions League final, can those players even realistically play on for us on the Thursday night? “We’ll have some preparation here, in terms of pre-camps, but all the players would need a period to switch off — we would have to look at the Champions League final when we got to it.”
Midfielder Rice, 20, committed his international future to England last month — after winning three Republic of Ireland caps in friendlies.
And he is in the 25-man squad to face the Czech Republic at Wembley a week tomorrow and the trip to Montenegro three days later.He added: “We can’t keep relying on the Royal Family to produce babies and have weddings.
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