Thomas already looking out of Tuch as boss of Three Lions

AS they were swanning around the grid ahead of the Spanish Grand Prix in Barcelona, having settled into their luxury digs in a Girona golf resort, the England football squad did not look like one that was preparing for business.

- ANDY DUNN

And, emphatically, that proved to be the case.

Never mind the stuff about his mum finding some of Jude Bellingham's antics 'repulsive' - we will come on to that later - the most ill-advised comments from Thomas Tuchel over these past few days were the ones that suggested Senegal were far more motivated than an England team which, according to their manager, also did not have the right attitude in the game against Andorra.

Tuchel was right on both counts but the buck stops with him. It is his £100,000-a-week job to inspire his players and, quite frankly, most of them looked distinctly uninterested over the course of the two matches.

They had a nice holiday at the Formula One and at the Camiral Golf and Wellness resort but that was about it.

If there was any sense of players feeling a need to impress the relatively new manager, it was not evident.

There is a strong argument that would suggest their indifference to recent international duty was a product of a long, gruelling season.