The England boss justifies his selections of the likes of Jordan Henderson, Cole Palmer, Joe Gomez and more.
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00:00 It's good to see him playing back in a league that's probably easier to assess and of course
00:16 European football he had the game against Villa last week as well which is easier for
00:22 us to see the level he's operating at. So he's had a big influence on Ajax since he's
00:28 been there and I know they're very, very happy with him. We know what he brings, we know
00:32 the leadership he brings. I think we feel that Ivan is one of the contenders in that
00:43 role so it's important to bring him back in and be able to work with us again. He showed
00:49 straight away getting back into Brentford's team the quality and the impact that he can
00:53 have. Equally Oli is having an outstanding season with Aston Villa and is a player in
01:00 excellent form. He's shown great composure in some real pressure moments for his club
01:12 and he's adaptable, he can play in two or three different positions I think, maybe more.
01:19 So he's had an outstanding season and again is in on merit as everybody is.
01:35 Consistently good performances, he was very close in November as we said at the time.
01:42 He's continued his form, he's scoring, his work for the team is excellent, he competes
01:50 which is important. So I really like his attitude.
01:55 If you'd said to me he would play as consistently well at Premier League level as he has then
02:07 I'd have questioned that last summer. So great credit to him and to Sean that he's given
02:15 a young centre-half an opportunity. He's in on merit and we're really keen to work with
02:20 him and find out a bit more about him.
02:28 Well firstly it's great to see him playing regularly at Liverpool, it's obviously been
02:32 a couple of years since he's done that. We love working with Joe, we're delighted to
02:37 see him back playing, he is versatile. He's in very good form at this moment in time and
02:42 we look forward to seeing him next week.
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