Gareth Southgate acknowledges England need Newcastle duo amid call-up tug-of-war with Scotland

England boss Gareth Southgate careworn Harvey Barnes is “a participant we like loads” whereas additionally emphasising the competitors he faces amid discuss of the winger probably switching allegiance to Scotland.

Barnes is reported to be contemplating a change three years on from successful his sole England cap up to now in a pleasant in opposition to Wales.

At a press convention forward of Tuesday’s pleasant conflict with Scotland at Hampden Park, Southgate mentioned of the 25-year-old: “He’s clearly a participant who has performed for us.

“We’ve bought lots of competitors in that space of the pitch. He’s a participant we’re at all times monitoring and he’s a participant we like loads.”

Southgate was requested about on a possible swap of allegiances for Barnes and his Newcastle teammate Elliot Anderson, who has performed for each international locations at youth stage and acquired a call-up to the Scotland squad final month, solely to be pressured to withdraw resulting from damage.

Southgate mentioned: “Each superb gamers. With Elliot, once more I feel he’s a participant that has progressed rather well. We’ve beforehand spoken with him however in fact, he was named within the squad right here, so assumed that was that.

“I believed he had a superb pre-season with Newcastle, you can see that evolution that he’s bought as a younger participant and the potential he’s bought. I do know Newcastle fee him very extremely.

“‘I don’t know’ is the reply to the last word query for both participant, however there are going to be increasingly of those kinds of conditions.

“There are such a lot of gamers with twin or triple nationality now, it is extremely sophisticated for each nation, and generally you’ll be able to’t supply the participant one thing as shortly as they’d like.

“We’ve benefited from it and misplaced gamers due to it, and I feel that’s at all times going to be the case.”

Southgate was joined on the press convention by Newcastle full-back Kieran Trippier, who mentioned of Anderson: “Because the gaffer mentioned, in pre-season he’s been unbelievable. It was good for him final 12 months to stick with us and never exit on mortgage once more, to achieve that have.

“He’s a fantastic lad with nice potential. We’ve had talks, however he went away with Scotland. That’s his resolution, it’s in the end as much as him.”