Gareth Southgate claims Manchester City’s Champions League win is ‘absolutely brilliant’ for England

Gareth Southgate believes England can capitalize on Manchester City’s success in the Champions League after beating Inter Milan in the final on Saturday.

Southgate has included five members of Pep Guardiola’s side in its squad for this month’s Euro 2024 qualifiers against Malta and North Macedonia. celebrate.

With City’s success on the way after Declan Rice won the Europa Conference League with West Ham earlier this week, Southgate said it could be good for the national team.

“It’s absolutely brilliant for all our guys who have been involved,” Southgate said in a video posted to England’s social media.

“Starting with Declan, his first experience of lifting a trophy, so fantastic for him. You can see the emotion that has been with the club for so long and what it meant to him.

Jack Grealish (left) and Kyle Walker (right) both played during the match and are included in Southgate’s squad for this month’s Euro 2024 qualifiers against Malta and North Macedonia

Southgate (front centre) said the ‘experiences of individual players who win big trophies were important to the development of the team’

“Then the Manchester City lads have had a phenomenal season, an absolutely incredible season, and of course that’s the holy grail for them to get this last trophy that they hadn’t won until now.

“I’m really happy for all of them. It’s great to see them having a good time and it’s great for us as a group too.

“We now have so much experience with individual players winning big trophies, and that’s so important for our development as a team. It’s fantastic in every way.”