England manager, Gareth Southgate, has issued a warning to Jack Grealish and his fellow Manchester City teammates regarding their celebrations following their treble triumph.
Manchester City recently secured the Premier League, FA Cup, and Champions League titles, and their jubilant celebration, particularly those involving Jack Grealish, garnered significant attention on social media.
While rejoining the England squad in preparation for the Euro 2024 qualifier against Malta on Friday, the victorious City players were not expected to feature in the starting lineup. Nevertheless, Southgate emphasized the importance of maintaining a reasonable level of celebration to ensure that players fulfill all their remaining commitments for the season.
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“There is a line,” Southgate said.
“What is different is that everyone posts everything [on social media]. I wouldn’t have liked a few of my nights out to be posted publicly. My generation would have been in a lot more problems.
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“But in our head we weren’t thinking of including the City players for this game. I have spoken with the players. We have talked about where the focus needs to be, where we need them to be and acknowledged what they have experienced and that’s for me to manage.
“There is nothing to be served with me discussing that publicly. We weren’t considering those boys to start this game. We were hopeful they could play some part and that is still the case.
“But with the tactical preparation that we knew we needed to do earlier in the week, we always knew they were going to report Tuesday night, Wednesday was going to be light and Thursday the usual light session. So unless we had a problem we were not aiming to put those players into this game.”
Alongside Grealish, England’s squad includes fellow City stars Kyle Walker, Phil Foden, John Stones and Kalvin Phillips, none of whom are expected to start against Malta.
The Three Lions sit top of their qualifying group and will be confident of a comfortable victory over Malta, with the City stars likely to return to the pitch on Monday against North Macedonia.
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