Trent Alexander-Arnold should be in Gareth Southgate's England squad

Gareth Southgate is going to be having headaches about who to leave out of his Euro 2020 squad but I believe he should be taking Trent Alexander-Arnold to the tournament this summer.

There is a lot of talk about Alexander-Arnold and whether Southgate will select him, but surely he is too good to leave out of the 23-man squad? It would be some fall from grace if he didn't make it.

I'd give him only a five out of ten defensively but he offers a lot going forward and in games where you are going to dominate the ball there could be a case for selecting him to start because he is an absolutely fantastic footballer.

The crosses are almost Beckham-like and I also see him as someone who could offer something different on the right of a three in central midfield because of the way he plays passes or dinks balls into the front man.

There are some bits of his game that remind me a bit of Steven Gerrard and I would suggest to Southgate that if he is to take only eight defenders it should be just three centre-backs, with Kyle Walker there to slip into a back three, because I am not mad on England's other options.

I would go Walker, Alexander-Arnold, Reece James, Luke Shaw, Ben Chilwell, Tyrone Mings, Harry Maguire and John Stones.

Jose Mourinho has lost his charm

When Jose Mourinho first worked in England there was a charm to him that went along with his brash arrogance but he seems stuck in a different decade from his dressing-room.

The first thing you have to say is that Mourinho has been a world-class manager and I greatly respect his CV.

I also feel there is sometimes a bit of an agenda against him - people want him to fail. However, I have been in dressing-rooms and when the manager criticises the players in public it usually ends badly. Have a pop behind closed doors, never to the media.

I know that John Terry and Frank Lampard as players would have run through brick walls for Mourinho and he got the same out of the Inter players too, but I covered Spanish football and he lost his mojo at Real Madrid despite eventually winning a title.

Mourinho fell out with Iker Casillas and Sergio Ramos as well as the media and since then it has been row after row at Chelsea, Manchester United and now Tottenham.

It has never felt like a great fit for Mourinho and Spurs, and it was the same at United. He will probably say give me title-winning players and he will give a title-winning team, but I don't see how he is motivating this generation of players.

My bet is that he could stick around until the end of the season and then leaves early next term, probably after a row with Daniel Levy over how much money is available in summer window.

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