Jamie Carragher has no doubts that Manchester United youngster Kobbie Mainoo will be in England's Euro 2024 squad.
Mainoo, 18, made his Three Lions debut in the recent international against Brazil, before starting against Belgium three days later and producing a man of the match display.
It capped a meteoric rise for the teenage midfielder, who has made just 20 senior appearances in all competitions for United so far. His senior England debut came after being selected by Gareth Southgate, having initially been picked for Lee Carsley's Under-21 squad.
Now former England defender and Liverpool legend Carragher is certain that Mainoo will be going to this summer's European Championships in Germany. The only question for the Sky Sports pundit is whether Southgate will have him in his starting lineup.
"The thing I loved [against Belgium], I was watching people talk before the game, and there's this thing that has been building that he's this holding midfield player," said Carragher, speaking on The Overlap.
"I don't really see it. He looks like some that dribble and runs forward. I don't actually think he is that because there's talk that United need a holding midfield player and Casemiro might move.
"Last night, that thing where he just turned and he running at people centrally and he's all over the pitch. I thought that performance last night was sensational. Sometimes you look at a young player, feels like it happens every tournament, someone really young comes out of nowhere - whether it was Rooney, Michael Owen, Bellingham a couple of years ago.
"We know for a fact this kid is on the plane now on the back of last night and you're actually looking at that first XI. You don't want to get carried away on one game but because there's no options in central midfield really. He's definitely going, it's just whether he plays"
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Former United captain Gary Neville added: "The one thing in all of those players - Michael Owen, Jude Bellingham - is temperament. His first three games were I think away at Anfield, St James' Park and Goodison Park. You can't play at those grounds sometimes when you've got 50 games without having real difficulties, nervous, anxious, going under. In the first three games, it felt like he was at home."
"You mention that three in midfield of Rice, Bellingham and Mainoo - it felt like, for the first time, I'm not going to say ever, it felt like I was watching a Portuguese or Brazilian midfield in the way they were rotating."
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