Tino Livramento and Jarell Quansah have returned to the England Under-21 squad as Euro 2025 looms large – but Manchester United’s Kobbie Mainoo has not been selected.
Head coach Lee Carsley has named a 29-man group for a training camp at St George’s Park and will need to trim the squad by six players before heading to the June 11-28 tournament in Slovakia.
Newcastle full-back Livramento was given his senior England debut by Carsley in November during his interim spell in charge.
Livramento and Liverpool centre-back Quansah were then selected in Thomas Tuchel’s first senior squad in March, but both drop back to the under-21s for now.
Crystal Palace’s Adam Wharton remains with Carsley’s Young Lions despite his impressive form and FA Cup triumph with the Eagles.
Tuchel spoke about Wharton in the context of midfield options when announcing his latest senior England squad on Friday, saying: “It’s not Adam Wharton v Jordan Henderson. What Henderson brings in the moment to the group an under-21 player cannot bring – it’s just impossible from the personality, the experience.
“We made Adam train with us in the last camp and he was with the under-21s and he trained with us and was very, very good. At the moment there’s a little injury problem, a concussion protocol going on from the FA Cup final.”
Mainoo has been picked by neither Tuchel nor Carsley this time, just under a year after the midfielder started the seniors’ Euro 2024 final defeat to Spain. His last England Under-21 call came in March 2024 before his elevation to the senior squad.
Taylor Harwood-Bellis, Charlie Cresswell and Harvey Elliott feature in Carsley’s group. They won Euro 2023 with England Under-21s – the first time the Young Lions had lifted the trophy since 1984.
Arsenal’s Ethan Nwaneri, Nottingham Forest’s Elliot Anderson and Ipswich’s Liam Delap, who has scored 12 Premier League goals despite the Tractor Boys’ relegation this season, are also in.
Borussia Dortmund’s Jamie Gittens and Manchester City’s James McAtee are omitted, although there remains scope for changes before the tournament squad needs to be submitted.
Everton centre-back Jarrad Branthwaite – another who won Euro 2023 – is missing because of a hamstring injury.
England face the Czech Republic in Group B on Thursday, 12 June before playing Slovenia three days later, with their final group game against Germany on Wednesday, 18 June.
