The former Leeds player feels that the 24-year-old midfielder was played the last season ‘out of his skin’ and that everyone thought he would be getting a national team call-up. However, Gareth Southgate didn’t consider him as an option.
Harte feels that he wasn’t given a chance because he was playing in the Championship and that Phillips ‘definitely deserves a chance’ after yet another brilliant campaign under Marcelo Bielsa. Leeds are at the top of the Championship table at the moment with 71 points from 37 matches, and are the favourites to go up with nine games remaining.