Theo Walcott, Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain and Kieran Gibbs have been called up by England for the upcoming Euro 2016 qualifiers with San Marino and Switzerland.
The Three Lions take on San Marino in Serravalle on Saturday 5 September, before returning home to Wembley Stadium to take on Switzerland three days later.
Walcott, who has five goals in 40 appearances for England since making his debut in 2006, will be hoping to pip Wayne Rooney to Bobby Charlton’s long-standing scoring record by notching 44 goals against San Marino. The Manchester United striker needs only one goal to reach the hallowed 49 mark, however, without Marouane Fellaini to feed off he apparently doesn’t fancy his chances.
Jack Wilshere and Danny Welbeck missed out on selection to the senior squad due to injury.
Elsewhere Chuba Akpom has withdrawn from the under-21 squad; the striker, currently on loan at Hull City, is injured.
Calum Chambers will feature for Gareth Southgate’s side and the centre-back has been tipped to play a big role in the year ahead. Speaking before the start of the season the coach remarked:
“Calum’s played a fair amount of Premier League football with Southampton and then Premier League and Champions League with Arsenal.
“He’s found himself out of their team in the second half of last season but if you look at his age and what he’s achieved, he’s on the right path.
“I know he wanted to play more and we see him as a potential senior in the future, but there’s no rush for him to get where he wants to get to.”
Full England squad
Goalkeepers: Joe Hart (Manchester City), Jack Butland (Stoke City), Tom Heaton (Burnley).
Defenders: Nathaniel Clyne (Liverpool), Luke Shaw (Manchester United), Kieran Gibbs (Arsenal), Gary Cahill (Chelsea), Chris Smalling (Manchester United), John Stones (Everton), Phil Jagielka (Everton).
Midfielders: Michael Carrick (Manchester United), James Milner (Liverpool), Ross Barkley (Everton), Jonjo Shelvey (Swansea City), Ryan Mason (Tottenham Hotspur), Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain (Arsenal), Fabian Delph (Manchester City).
Forwards: Raheem Sterling (Manchester City), Wayne Rooney (Manchester United), Harry Kane (ex-Arsenal), Jamie Vardy (Leicester City), Theo Walcott (Arsenal).
Harry Kane (ex-Arsenal).
What do we think of Tottenham?
Harry Kane’s club made me chuckle – clubless I guessm
Harry Kane’s club made me chuckle – clubless I guess.
That England team should scare nobody. Not a lot of creativity in the squad.
Hopefully Walcott can put in a goal or two and start getting back to his best: consistent in patches!
Akpom injured. Born a gooner he is!
Excuse me being off topic..but Gomis has a 7m release clause. Yes he’s 30 but could tide us over and do a job until someone more permanent becomes available in a future window! What’s your thoughts gooners?
We have Giroud, Walcoot and Welbeck. Gomis won’t be an improvement. I would like Wenger to sign a striker, but someone lke Benzema or Cavani.
Cavani is shite
Charlie Austin at ~15m could be brilliant for us.
I read somewhere he got medical condition, he collapse in the training ground possibly because of heart problem. I’m convinced this would scare any teams trying to sign him. Props to Swansea for giving him chance to flourish again.
Yes, he suffers from vasovagal which causes him to faint if his blood pressure is too low I believe!
Shouldn’t be a problem, mine is sky high watching our team at the moment! Ha!
Thumbs up from me – not stopped laughing.
Let me ask: are you saying his low bp can be offset by some of yours? (laughing again).
I totally agree. Bafatimbi Gomis will be a solid buy and 30 isn’t a bad age for a CF. The guy can really bully defenders and finish when he’s on his game. He also seems like an all-around good dude. What I don’t like is the argument for not purchasing him that he’s ‘too similar and not an upgrade on Giroud’. While thas true, how’s that a bad thing? Bafa is hot shit in front of goal right now, and Giroud is not. Later in the season, Gomis may go through a shit spell while Giroud true to tradition gets… Read more »
…strange goal celebration though. Gives me the creeps. If he comes, he’ll certainly score a fair few so that has to change – don’t want my striker doing some funny creepy celebration all around the Emirates.
We know he’s not coming anyway.
It’s a bad thing because you fail to consider what happens when they’re both on form, and then when they’re both not. Sort of like the kid with Arthur Miller’s looks and Marilyn Monroe’s brain.
I. WILL NOT. ACCEPT. THAT. CELEBRATION.
@justbrowing…Nope. Decent but too old and not good enough for us. Panic buying makes us no better than UTD (which if anyone is following the trolling they are getting is hilarious).
Yeah I hear that, I’m just thinking outside the box!
I hope wenger’s still got his magic hat and pulls something out of it!
To be fair I still think Danny boy will come good in time. Onwards and upwards..
Very weak squad.
No panic signing eh? They just signed a one hit wonder teenager for 36m! WTF?
That price is definitely stupid. Even City and Chelsea is not that stupid with numbers. I hope other teams can hold their tits properly so this league don’t become a victim for its own fame.
Tweet from @Princegunner11: The difference between Van Gaal and David Moyes is just that file he carries around.
Moyes is better,considering what we are seeing. If moyes was allowed to spend like Van gaal he would have done better.
Maybe Roy Hodgson will turn Walcott into the cold dead eyed hitman we’re all looking for. Or maybe not.
Anyway the next time you’re feeling bad about Arsenals less than perfect start to the season just remember Spurs kick off their next European adventure against Qarabag.
Fucking Azerbaijan! Thank fucking god we’ve never dirtied our hands with that shit competition.
I’m a bit surprised that Hayden and A M-N aren’t in the U21s.
I wonder if Walcott will be active enough to get more than the 18 touches he had on Saturday.
Reading through this list of very pedestrian players brings to mind something I have been wondering for a long time: Why have Arsenal made such an effort in the past few years to recruit British players? Surely recruiting a lot of players from a middling football nation with a reputation for producing players long on effort and short on technical ability is not a recipe for success? While the other big clubs have a few English players here and there, mostly to make up the numbers to meet the home grown requirements, we’ve now got Chamberlain, Walcott, Ramsey, Wilshire, Gibbs,… Read more »
Wenger’s trying to build a team around a home grown core. I vaguely remember him saying something about the all time great teams of the modern era being built in this way. Guardiola’s’ Barca etc
I would feel better about that strategy if like Barcelona we were building around a core of Spanish players. Building around a core of English players in modern football seems like making a commitment to being average.
Well, that’s the sort of shit that happens when you have an English Premier League home grown rule. The buggers almost force you to use Englishmen. I think Wenger has made sure we will be in good shape if they tighten the home grown rule even more.
Nothing about Messi signing on sky sports news! Think my tv might be broken. #comeondick
Andre mariner wouldn’t like the 3 of them on pitch together.
A question for all:
Harry Kane to Arsenal at 6pm tomorrow night for £30m pounds.
or
A one year ban on club football that would involve you to only being able to watch Rooney and co play meaningless international football during these godforsaken interlulls. In the duration of this one year ban Arsenal go on to win the PL with a recalled Yaya Sonogo finishing the season as top scorer on 31 goals.
Those both kinda suck.
Reading about United’s bat-shit crazy transfer policy today makes me feel better about ours. They are truly fucked this year keeper-wise, and Shrek and a diamond-encrusted deluxe version of Yaya Sanogo apparently will be their only strikers. We won’t do worse than third. And all the shit about no one but Giroud scoring a goal is a bit over the top anyway. Sure, we could score more, but Ramsey should have one on the books, and if Sanchez and Ox don’t do what they did (you can even call it an assist if you want), our much-praised “OG” doesn’t score… Read more »
Palace look pretty good so far. Sanogo’s influence rubbed off on them. I think our win against them was much better than it felt at the time. Hope they keep playing well against top teams, except for us, of course.
Bleh !