Tuchel explains shock Bellingham omission from England squad

Thomas Tuchel explained why Real Madrid's Jude Bellingham is still out of the squad despite return from injury

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00:00First of all, I understand your focus on Jude, of course.

00:04First of all, he's a very special player

00:06and for special players there can always be special rules.

00:10I get this.

00:12But for this camp we decided

00:15that we stick with our straightforward decision

00:18to invite the same team.

00:20That applies also then for Jude.

00:22He deserves always to be in camp.

00:25He has not gathered fully rhythm yet at Real Madrid.

00:28He is back in the team.

00:30He hasn't finished one full match until now.

00:33He has only started one match.

00:35So he is at the moment in the period

00:39where he gets his rhythm, where he gets back to full strength.

00:43He wanted to be called up.

00:45We had a phone call.

00:47There was no issue from that side.

00:49He just lacks rhythm.

00:51He hasn't finished one complete match, like I said.

00:54and on top of it we stayed to our decision to go with the same squat.

00:59So I'll go with it.

01:00I keep it, by the way.

01:01We have to start out.

01:02We'll do this.

01:03We'll do this out.

01:04We'll do this out.

01:05We'll do this out.

01:06We'll do this out.

01:07You can't find it.

01:08We'll do this out.

01:09We'll do this out.

01:10We'll do this right.

01:11Now, we'll do this out.