{"id":596465,"date":"2026-05-21T16:45:14","date_gmt":"2026-05-21T16:45:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/596465\/"},"modified":"2026-05-21T16:45:14","modified_gmt":"2026-05-21T16:45:14","slug":"england-world-cup-squad-harry-maguire-and-fikayo-tomori-to-be-left-out","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/596465\/","title":{"rendered":"England World Cup squad: Harry Maguire and Fikayo Tomori to be left out"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Harry Maguire and Fikayo Tomori are among the central defensive options to be left out of England&#8217;s World Cup squad.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Both players were named in Thomas Tuchel&#8217;s previous squad, for the friendlies against Japan and Uruguay, but will not make the plane to North America.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">In a post on Instagram, Maguire confirmed: &#8220;I was confident I could have played a major part this summer for my country after the season I&#8217;ve had. I&#8217;ve been left shocked and gutted by the decision. I wish the players all the best.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Maguire&#8217;s Manchester United team-mate Luke Shaw is also set to miss out despite his impressive season.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Shaw was named in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/football\/articles\/c0e2p7l2w0no\" class=\"ssrcss-18834jl-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Tuchel&#8217;s 55-man provisional squad<\/a> and there has been a clamour for his inclusion.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">But, with Newcastle&#8217;s Dan Burn and Manchester City&#8217;s Nico O&#8217;Reilly in line to be called-up, Shaw is expected to miss out.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Arsenal winger Noni Madueke is expected to make the final 26-man squad, joining team-mates Bukayo Saka and Declan Rice.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Tuchel is set to name his squad on Friday for the World Cup, which starts on 11 June.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Harry Maguire and Fikayo Tomori are among the central defensive options to be left out of England&#8217;s World&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":107153,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[218,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-596465","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-football","tag-football","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/596465","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=596465"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/596465\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/107153"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=596465"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=596465"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=596465"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}