Toney gets England call-up as potential gambling ban looms
With a potential suspension looming for apparently breaching a number of playing guidelines, Ivan Toney was known as up by England for its upcoming European Championship qualifiers as a reward for being the third-leading scorer within the Premier League.
It is the second time the Brentford striker has been summoned by England. The first was forward of Nations League qualifiers in September however he didn’t get onto the sphere and did not make the squad for the World Cup a number of weeks later.
Toney has scored 16 league targets for Brentford this season — solely Erling Haaland and England striker Harry Kane have extra — however his future is clouded after being charged with a complete of 262 breaches of the Football Association’s playing legal guidelines, relationship again to 2017.
Sections of the British media reported this month that Toney has admitted to the vast majority of the breaches and was going through a prolonged spell out of the sport. That led to Toney criticizing the FA concerning the course of behind his impending disciplinary listening to and over what he perceives to be potential lapses of confidentiality as he prepares to argue his case.
The problem hasn’t stopped England coach Gareth Southgate from deciding on Toney as one in every of six forwards in a 25-man squad forward of Euro 2024 qualifiers towards Italy and Ukraine.
“The fact is, he is available for his club,” Southgate mentioned concerning the collection of Toney. “There hasn’t been a trial as yet or any judgment so I don’t know on what basis we wouldn’t pick him.”
They are England’s first video games for the reason that nationwide staff misplaced to France the World Cup quarterfinals in December.
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