In the weeks following England's bittersweet World Cup campaign — a bronze medal won, a semi-final surrendered — Thomas Tuchel prepares to name his first squad since Atlanta, a selection that will speak louder than any post-tournament debrief. The choices he makes about who returns, who debuts, and who is left behind will reveal whether he has drawn lessons from the passivity that cost England a final, or whether the same instincts will carry forward into a Nations League that now pits them against the world's best. For a nation long accustomed to near-misses, this moment is less about fixture