Too many hurdles to get through with Maguire - Southgate
Gareth Southgate explains that Harry Maguire could not recover from his calf injury in time for Euro 2024
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00:00 Well, Trent obviously can play both. I think we were nine in the last couple of tournaments when I looked through.
00:13 I think we're the same. That was part of the reason that in the end we couldn't take Harry Maguire because we would have had to have taken a tenth.
00:26 I think that balance wouldn't be right. It would have left us short in other areas of the pitch.
00:31 Harry has made some progress but that's been complicated and we definitely wouldn't have had him in the group stages.
00:41 There were too many hurdles to get through without really being clear of where we might get to.
00:48 Given that we've not got a clean bill of health across the rest of the back line as well, we need cover, we need players that are fit and ready to go from the start.
01:00 Again, another really difficult call. You know how I feel about Harry Maguire and what he's done for England and what he's done for me as a manager.
01:10 That's a slightly different case to the other two but no easier because of that.