{"id":377179,"date":"2026-04-01T22:19:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-01T22:19:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/377179\/"},"modified":"2026-04-01T22:19:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-01T22:19:08","slug":"phil-foden-manchester-city-midfielders-place-in-englands-world-cup-squad-not-guaranteed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/377179\/","title":{"rendered":"Phil Foden: Manchester City midfielder’s place in England’s World Cup squad ‘not guaranteed’"},"content":{"rendered":"

England manager Thomas Tuchel has said Phil Foden does not have a guaranteed place in his World Cup squad.<\/p>\n

The 25-year-old Manchester City midfielder was the only player to start both games in England’s final camp before Tuchel selects his 24-man squad.<\/p>\n

But he failed to fill the void left by striker Harry Kane’s absence when he played in a false nine role in the defeat by Japan<\/a> on Tuesday.<\/p>\n

And when asked after the game whether there are doubts about the player’s spot in the World Cup squad, the German said: “Well, it’s not a guarantee that he will come.”<\/p>\n

Tuchel said Foden was “excellent” in training but “struggles to show it on the pitch”.<\/p>\n

“Obviously he didn’t have a lot of minutes for City recently, then he came to camp with the brightest smile and was so good in training,” the England boss added.<\/p>\n

“And I thought he will just surprise us and will play with the same verve and excitement but, yeah, he struggles to have the full impact.”<\/p>\n

Tuchel must submit his final squad to Fifa by 30 May before they begin their World Cup campaign against Croatia on 17 June in Arlington, Texas.<\/p>\n

Foden was deployed as a false nine against Japan but made little impression before Tuchel brought on striker Dominic Solanke in the 59th minute.<\/p>\n

He has started just four of Manchester City’s past 15 games and has not scored since 14 December, when he finished a run of six goals in five games.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"England manager Thomas Tuchel has said Phil Foden does not have a guaranteed place in his World Cup…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":377180,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[61,60,112],"class_list":["post-377179","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/377179","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=377179"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/377179\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/377180"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=377179"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=377179"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=377179"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}