Hopefully…’ – Rangers star meets with manager as int’l recall mooted live on air today
Rangers goalkeeper Jack Butland has acknowledged that he may be headed for an international recall after meeting with England’s team and manager Gareth Southgate during their trip to Scotland last year.
Butland revealed that the team had practiced at Auchenhowie before that match, so he seized the chance to talk with the manager, a few employees, and a few of his previous teammates.
The goalkeeper has been among Ibrox’s most reliable players this season, winning praise for his efforts and perhaps earning his first call-up since 2018.
“England trained here at the training ground before the game against Scotland last year, I saw him [Southgate] there, I went to the hotel to see them and to catch up with a few of the players and some of the staff,” Butland said in a live talkSPORT interview on February 5, 2008, at 8:57.
I am aware that relationship exists. That’s the way it’s always been. It all boils down to playing and performing on a regular basis.
That’s what I think I’m doing, and I would love to go back in there if that were something that could be considered. I have always loved
being a part of it and representing my country, and I will always love it.
They will therefore undoubtedly pay attention if I’m doing enough, and hopefully that will be sufficient. If such a chance arises, I would seize it.
Butland deserves to be called up to England.
The Rangers goalkeeper has undoubtedly performed at the caliber required to start that dialogue, and Butland would be justified in calling either of Nick Pope and Sam Johnstone given their respective absences from action.
His form has been so good that, after just six months in Glasgow, Nottingham Forest and another English club made a late bid to entice him away, and the club had to fight to keep him at Ibrox in January.
Given the state of goalkeeping in the international team, Rangers great Ally McCoist suggested that the goalkeeper should represent England at the Euros in the summer, saying he should start in place of any goalkeeper who hasn’t been playing frequently.
It’s reasonable that Jordan Pickford will likely continue to be England’s best player, but players like Sam Johnstone, Dean Henderson, Nick Pope, and Aaron Ramsdale haven’t even been playing regularly.
Another Rangers story is that a player is leaving Ibrox ahead of a move.
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