England’s Euro 2024 squad: Who’s on the plane?

England’s Euro 2024 qualifying campaign couldn’t really have gone much better for Gareth Southgate, who can now look forward to leading the Three Lions at a fourth major international tournament.

The trip over to Germany may end up being Southgate’s last hurrah as England boss, and he can certainly look back on a job well done escaping a group containing Euro 2020 winners Italy and the always dangerous Ukraine with barely a scratch.

England won six of their eight games – completing an impressive double over Italy in the process – and took a home of share of the spoils in their other two; the 1-1 draw with North Macedonia disappointing but certainly not the end of the world.

Attention now turns to who Southgate will take with him to Euro 2024, with England’s squad depth and emerging young talent leading to high, high expectations from many.

Some players are guaranteed to be boarding the plane to Germany, others will feel confident in where they’re currently at, while some will know there’s plenty of work to do between now and the end of the 2023/24 domestic season.

Here’s how things are currently shaping up for the Three Lions.

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England’s strength in depth is pretty good in most areas of the pitch, meaning some notable Premier League performers may not even get a sniff of getting into the squad.

There’s been a swell of support for West Ham’s James Ward-Prowse on social media, but he’s been unable to force his way into the reckoning even though England had already qualified by the time they played Malta and North Macedonia.

Likewise, Ben White has admirers for his ability at both centre-back and right-back, but he doesn’t appear to be in the thinking at present.

James Trafford, Ezri Konsa, Tyrick Mitchell, Ruben Loftus-Cheek, Eddie Nketiah and Anthony Gordon are six other players who could stake a claim if they continue to excel at club level, but they will need to turn it on and hope the form of others falls by the wayside.

Southgate has been…