Dier has also enjoyed a good end to the season, helping Spur to a fourth-place finish, but again is not included in this England squad for the Nations League.
“Again, I agree Eric has played very well with Spurs,” Southgate said on the centre-back.
“We know Eric. We don’t know some of these younger ones as well. So we felt these were good matches to find out more about those. Eric’s obviously playing in the middle of a three, it’s a very specific position he’s playing, and the team have been excellent at the end of the season.
“So, we may well play with a three, we may well play with a four, we’ve got cover to do either of those things in the next few weeks.
“But he’s definitely in our thinking. But at this moment, we can’t give everybody time on the pitch that we’d like to. And we felt that investment of time in Fikayo, Marc, Ben White in particular, those younger ones, ahead of Eric for this camp, would be more valuable to us.”
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