With Euro 2024 fast approaching, Gareth Southgate’s England squad is starting to take shape and he now has an extra three slots with 26 players boarding the plane to Germany following Uefa’s decision to extend the squad sizes. Telegraph Sport assesses what the squad would look like if it was picked now.
Reading first-team stars Femi Azeez, Michael Craig and Tom Holmes were in attendance for Saturday's 2-0 win over Middlesbrough in the PL2 play-offs. Adrian Akande's brace in the second half was enough to earn victory in the round of 16 for Noel Hunt's Under-21s, setting up a quarter-final with Nottingham Forest in the coming week. Over 800 Royals supporters were in attendance at the SCL Stadium, alongside a group of first-team staff to back the youngsters.
Premier League Burnley have taken Reading City teenager Emil Mursalov on trial after sending scouts to Rivermoor this season. 17-year-old Mursalov, educated at the John Madejski Academy, has made 12 first-team appearances for the Cityzens in a memorable campaign which ended in play-off heartache. Burnley, who look set to return to the Championship under Vincent Kompany following a difficult year back in the top flight, sent scouts on multiple occasions to watch the youngster. Manager Simon Johns