Newcastle United defender is alleged to have been labelled ‘unprofessional’ by England supervisor Thomas Tuchel.
Burn, who gained the Carabao Cup with the Magpies simply days in the past, has been a colossal drive on the again for Eddie Howe this time period and even opened the scoring at Wembley Stadium of their latest 2-1 success in opposition to Liverpool .
The previous Wigan defender has been rewarded together with his first-ever Three Lions call-up and will characteristic throughout Tuchel’s first two video games in cost in opposition to Albania and Latvia this month.
Dan Burn referred to as ‘unprofessional’ by new England boss Thomas Tuchel
Dan Burn opened the scoring for Newcastle days in the past of their 2-1 Carabao Cup last success (Picture credit score: Getty Photos)
Burn, 32, is a brand new addition to the England set-up having loved an excellent rise with Newcastle over the previous few years.
Born in Blyth, the previous Darlington man has been wonderful throughout the 2024/25 marketing campaign and is able to taking part in at each left-back and centre-back – however why has Tuchel already criticised him?
England head coach Thomas Tuchel speaks at a press convention (Picture credit score: Alamy)
After all, new Three Lions boss Tuchel was joking when he described Burn as ‘unprofessional’, with the previous Chelsea head coach ringing the ex-Fulham defender late at night time to tell him of his inclusion within the crew.
“[I have] undoubtedly had worse weeks,” Burn mentioned with a smile at an England press convention earlier right now. “It began off with the supervisor (Tuchel) FaceTiming me on Tuesday, saying that they have been debating calling me up and he’d let me know by Thursday.
“Then it received to form of six o’clock Thursday night time and I’d not heard something, so I mentioned to my spouse ‘Nothing’s going to occur’ then I received a textual content saying ‘Are you continue to awake?’ at 10. I used to be like ‘yeah’ straightaway.
“He mentioned I used to be very unprofessional for not being in mattress for 10 o’clock!”
Burn has been immense for the Magpies (Picture credit score: Getty Photos)
Given the accidents to Harry Maguire and John Stones, Burn is not simply across the make up the numbers and admitted he appears himself preventing for a constant spot within the England facet.
“I’m not simply coming in to form of be a cheerleader and assist the boys out,” he mentioned. “I need to play. I really feel like I’ve received the flexibility to play at worldwide degree, and I’ve mentioned it for a very long time.”
