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Declan Rice and Jude Bellingham are a £300m midfield duo England have for FREE - it'd be an opportunity missed if Gareth Southgate restricted both at the World Cup rather than allowing his strongest hand to be aces in Qatar

Not even the richest clubs in the world could afford to go out and buy the central-midfield partnership that Gareth Southgate has at his disposal for free in Qatar.

It would, we estimate, cost a near £300million to pair West Ham's Declan Rice and Borussia Dortmund's Jude Bellingham in your team, and not even would-be suitors such as Manchester City and Liverpool could stretch to that. They might get one of them this summer, but not both.

How fortunate Southgate is, then, that he can build his England side around two players who look to have the skills to complement one another perfectly.