England's 2018 World Cup squad announcement: LIVE updates

I would say, ‘This is all about experience, we are not going to do particularly well, we are not going to win this World Cup’. I would play lots of these talented young players. Bring Ruben Loftus-Cheek, Trent Alexander-Arnold and Ryan Sessegnon, bring the youngsters and give them that little bit of experience.

Hart, 31, blames Moyes, who dropped him from West Ham’s team at the end of the season. On loan from Manchester City, Hart suffered a poor season and was once again dropped after the 4-1 loss to Arsenal on April 22. Spanish keeper Adrian played West Ham’s remaining three games and England coach Southgate has decided to give him the boot.

England will continue to monitor Adam Lallana’s fitness, despite his late cameo for Liverpool on the final day of the Premier League season, but are hopeful Kieran Trippier will be fit to join up despite missing Tottenham Hotspur’s last game of the season with a knee complaint. If the right-back is deemed fit, that would most likely leave Trent Alexander-Arnold on the stand‑by list. Yet it is the decision to omit Hart and Wilshere, players whose futures at their current clubs are still to be resolved, which will draw the focus.

Gareth Southgate decided to leave Jack Wilshere out of the World Cup squad after being unimpressed by his fitness levels during training before England’s friendlies with Holland and Italy in March. The Arsenal midfield player returned to his club the day before the win over Holland because the manager was concerned that he was not fit enough to implement the high-energy pressing game that he wants to instil in a largely young and dynamic squad. Wilshere is understood to have struggled to keep pace with some of Southgate’s training sessions, the legacy of a career that has been badly disrupted by injury. When the 26-year-old left the squad as England boarded a plane to Amsterdam, it was explained at the time as being due to a tendon problem in his knee but there were also broader worries about his fitness.

Ryan Bertrand’s expected omission is a slight surprise but Danny Rose has apparently proved his fitness and Ashley Young is selected ahead of the Southampton defender at left wing-back. Southgate watched Rose play for Tottenham Hotspur in their 5-4 win over Leicester City last Sunday while his assistant, Steve Holland, saw Bertrand’s Saints take on City. Young’s versatility – he can also play on the right – may end Trent Alexander-Arnold’s chances, with Tottenham’s Kieran Trippier expected to be included despite suffering an injury scare last week.

England could boast a pool of talent that has just 14 appearances at a World Cup between them, a statistic in sharp contrast to that of Germany, whose provisional 27-man squad have amassed 86 appearances at South Africa in 2010 and then when lifting the trophy in Brazil in 2014. Southgate, who was last night considering a recall for the Chelsea defender Gary Cahill or calling up Trent Alexander-Arnold, of Liverpool, names his travelling party this afternoon.