Nottingham Forest’s Morgan Gibbs-White has been called up to the England squad, having initially been snubbed.
Three Lions chief Thomas Tuchel has now made the call to Gibbs-White, who was a shock exclusion from his initial 27-man squad last Friday, following an injury to Chelsea’s Cole Palmer. Palmer has a minor complaint that will see him miss the quartet of games against Spain, Czechia (twice) and Croatia in the Nations League. The playmaker had only just earned a recall after missing out on the World Cup squad in the summer.
Now, Gibbs-White will finally get his chance to impress after a dazzling 2025-26 season where he racked up 25 goal contributions as he played a massive role in keeping Forest in the Premier League.
Touching on Gibbs-White last week, Tuchel explained his decision to not pick the 26-year-old saying: “It makes no sense to nominate three, four, five, number 10s. It just does not help anyone. We can see the form that Morgan is in and he ended the season very, very strongly and was the key player for Forest to not be relegated. We can see him stepping up now.”
Gibbs-White has six England caps with the most recent coming in a friendly win over Wales in October 2025.
Revised England Squad:
Goalkeepers: Jordan Pickford (Everton), Jason Steele (Brighton), James Trafford (Leeds United)
Defenders: Trent Alexander-Arnold (Real Madrid), Jarrad Branthwaite (Everton), Trevoh Chalobah (Como), Marc Guehi (Manchester City), Lewis Hall (Newcastle United), Ezri Konsa (Arsenal), Tino Livramento (Newcastle United), Nico O’Reilly (Manchester City), Jarrell Quansah (Bayer Leverkusen)
Midfielders: Elliot Anderson (Manchester City), Jude Bellingham (Real Madrid), Myles Lewis-Skelly (Arsenal), Kobbie Mainoo (Manchester United), Declan Rice (Arsenal), Alex Scott (Bournemouth), Morgan Gibbs-White (Nottingham Forest)
Forwards: Dominic Calvert-Lewin (Leeds United), Eberechi Eze (Arsenal), Anthony Gordon (Barcelona), Harry Kane (Bayern Munich), Rio Ngumoha (Liverpool), Marcus Rashford (Manchester United), Morgan Rogers (Chelsea), Bukayo Saka (Arsenal).
