Tuchel to Bellingham: Earn your World Cup spot or sit out

Thomas Tuchel has delivered an unambiguous message to Jude Bellingham, stating that stardom will not buy him a guaranteed starting shirt at the World Cup. The England manager said plainly that his squad now carries “14 or 15 potential starters,” and that even a player of Bellingham’s calibre must fight for his place like everyone else.

“Yes, he has a fight on his hands,” Tuchel said when…