Foden and Palmer are victims of Tuchel's cool pragmatism - but they can't say they weren't warned

As the news was broken on Thursday about the make-up of Thomas Tuchel’s 26-man squad which will fly to the USA for the World Cup, it soon became clear that if nothing else England’s head coach is true to his word.Tuchel has made very clear during the course of his England tenure that he is not interested in “collecting talent” but in “building the best team”. This was the refrain he kept coming back to last October, when he did not recall Jude Bellingham. Until this week it was the most scrutinised act of his tenure. Tuchel insisted then that he would live up to his words. “For credibility as a coach,” Tuchel told reporters at Wembley on October 3, “you need to walk the talk.”Advertisement