We are now into the business end of the season but for many there is a greater prize at stake later this month: a World Cup squad place.
Forty-eight nations competing with 23-26 players per squad means a maximum of 1,248 players could be heading to this summer’s showpiece in Canada, Mexico and the United States of America.
Barring injuries, Declan Rice and Jude Bellingham are certainties to go on the plane for England as the Three Lions look to end 60 years of hurt.
Rice is an automatic starter under England head coach Thomas Tuchel, while Bellingham’s omission from the starting XI
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