England U21s Announce Euro 2015 Squad: Kane In, Shaw Out

Gareth Southgate's announced his England Under-21 squad for the upcoming Euro Championships

By Jonny Shafto /

PFA Young Player of the Year, Harry Kane, has been included in the England Under-21 squad for the upcoming European Championships which is to be held in the Czech Republic.

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Premier League hotshots Saido Berahino and Danny Ings, who play for West Brom and Burnley respectively, have also been included, but £30m Manchester United full-back Luke Shaw is omitted.

Gareth Southgate's Under-21 side have won 13 of their last 14 matches and head to the championships in June in blistering form.

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England will come up against Italy, Portugal and Sweden in the group stages of the competition, which commences on the 17th of June.

€œWe go there as one of the favourites, we go there with belief and we want to challenge€ Southgate stated.

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€œWe€™ve had individual achievements of players being promoted to the senior side, but now they have the opportunity to go and create a bit of history€

Manchester United boss, Louis Van Gaal, was granted his wish in seeing Luke Shaw being left out of the squad after an injury-disrupted campaign that has seen the youngster feature in only 16 Premier League games.

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Spurs boss Mauricio Pochettino will however be left disappointed after his star-striker, Kane, was selected for the tournament despite the Argentinian€™s plea for the 21-year-old to be left out.

Southgate resisted the temptation to include eligible senior squad players such as Liverpool€™s Raheem Sterling, Arsenal winger Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain and Manchester United€™s Phil Jones, stating: €œWith the guys that have been up with Roy for a year, I don€™t feel it serves any purpose to bring them down into our squad€.

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This, despite Southgate€™s claims that England Manager Hodgson gave him full permission to €˜take who you want to€™.

The 27-man England Squad in full;

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Goalkeepers

Marcus Bettinelli (Fulham), Jonathan Bond (Watford), Jack Butland (Stoke City)

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Defenders

Calum Chambers (Arsenal), Eric Dier (Spurs), Luke Garbutt (Everton), Ben Gibson (Middlesbrough), Carl Jenkinson (Arsenal), Michael Keane (Burnley), Liam Moore (Leicester City), John Stones (Everton), Matt Targett (Southampton)

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Midfielders

Tom Carroll (Spurs), Nathaniel Chalobah (Chelsea), Will Hughes (Derby County), Jake Forster-Caskey (Brighton), Jesse Lingard (Manchester United), Ruben Loftus-Cheek (Chelsea), Alex Pritchard (Spurs), Nathan Redmond (Norwich City), James Ward-Prowse (Southampton)

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Forwards

Harry Kane (Spurs), Benik Afobe (Wolves), Patrick Bamford (Chelsea), Saido Berahino (West Brom), Danny Ings (Burnley), Cauley Woodrow (Fulham)

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