When Gareth Southgate named his England squad for the upcoming World Cup qualifiers against Albania and San Marino, he made headlines with several high-profile snubs.
Not simplest did Manchester United's £73m summer season arrival Jadon Sancho fail to make the 23, there had been also questions asked over the omissions of Emile Smith Rowe, Jesse Lingard and Jarrod Bowen.
Cases may be made for the inclusion of all 3 of those gamers in the squad, however their absences have been nowhere near as obvious as the one at left centre-returned.
The Fikayo-Tomori-fashioned hole in Southgate's squad list was as sudden because it become disappointing for all of us who has followed his profession when you consider that he fearlessly opted to try his good fortune in Italy closing January.
After an outstanding mortgage spell in the course of the latter half of the 2020/21 marketing campaign, Tomori has ascended to every other level this time period, gambling each minute for a Milan side that has won 10 of their beginning 12 Serie A video games.
Fielded alongside the unflappable Simon Kjaer, his velocity and incisive passing have combined nicely with the Dane's attributes, supporting the Rossoneri sign in the second nice protecting record in the complete department.
Tomori's great begin to the season isn't the only reason that his jilting is so stunning. His case is reinforced drastically while you recollect the modest pickings that acquire a smartphone name - or more likely, a WhatsApp - from Southgate's PA this week.
Tyrone Mings, for example, has spent the period among the last two worldwide breaks playing bass guitar (badly) throughout Aston Villa's dropping excursion of England, taking in defeats towards Wolves, West Ham, Arsenal and Southampton.
He become even dropped for the go to of the excessive-flying Hammers, handiest to be provided a reprieve while Ezri Konsa became shown a red card inside the second half.
Elsewhere in the 23, Harry Maguire - even though he could obviously by no means get dropped - has been in awful form. Although the truth he become rushed returned by using Ole Gunnar Solskjaer after simply one on-grass training consultation for his side's defeat to Leicester is a big mitigating factor in his defence.
