The Three Lions boss has been impressed with the team spirit in his squad and warned that players dropping out of camp will not be accepted with less than a year to go until the World Cup.

Speaking ahead of England's qualifier against Serbia on Thursday (13.11.25), Tuchel said: "What we are trying is to build is a strong bond, an energy, a group, a team, a brotherhood that everybody wants to join.

"And to also build a competition that everyone knows, 'If I pull out in the wrong moment, or from a 50-50 situation, the door can be closed because someone else takes my shirt, someone else takes my place.'

"And not even as a threat, but the other way around: that everyone is keen to come, everyone loves to come to camp, loves to perform for the country and this is the last step of elite football is to represent an elite country like England in a World Cup qualifying game or a World Cup itself.

"It is the pinnacle and that is how it should feel. I think we are absolutely on the [right] way. Everyone wanted to be part of the camps. Everyone is desperate to come.

"No-one is giving us any signals that this may be a good time to rest because we have already qualified and we will also not accept it so it is an energy that feeds itself. This is the moment where we are."

England have sealed their place at next summer's tournament in North America but Tuchel won't be "experimenting" with the team for the final two qualifiers against Serbia and Albania.

The coach said: "I didn't feel that we were experimenting in the last two camps and we will not start in this camp.

"We take it serious, these are World Cup qualifiers at home. We want to build and keep on going."