Gareth Southgate says "the door is open" for James Maddison to be part of his World Cup squad, but has warned there is plenty of competition in the Leicester playmaker's position.
Maddison has impressed for the struggling Foxes with five goals and two assists in eight matches, leading to calls he should be on the plane to Qatar.
The 25-year-old's only England cap came as a substitute against Montenegro in November 2019 but Southgate knows his current form is impossible to ignore.
“The door is open, there’s no question about that," Southgate told Sky Sports. "We have a lot of good players and whoever I pick there’s always going to be debate about who we don’t pick. Whoever we do pick, we’ve got to leave people out to be able to pick those ones, that’s the complicated thing.
“James is obviously scoring goals with his club and I know what Brendan Rodgers thinks of him. It’s an area of the pitch where there’s big competition for places and we’ve got to make the best calls that we possibly can.”
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