Striker Connor Wickham, understood to have been the subject of an £8 million offer from Liverpool at the end of last week, was an unused sub as England’s U21s defeated Norway 2-0 in a friendly at Southampton this afternoon. Daniel Sturridge and Danny Rose netted the goals in the first half of the match, which was a warm-up ahead of the UEFA European U21 Championship in Denmark.

Stuart Pearce’s side take on Spain in their opening tournament group game on June 12th, Ukraine on June 15th and the Czech Republic on June 19th.

Regarding Liverpool’s widely reported offer. Town are keeping to their usual policy of not commenting on transfer speculation.

Meanwhile, chief executive Simon Clegg is representing the club at the Football League AGM in Cyprus.

England U21s: Fielding, Mancienne, Jones (Tomkins 83), Smalling, Bertrand (Gibbs 46), Henderson (Lansbury 46), Muamba (Cork 46), Rodwell, Rose (Albrighton 46), Welbeck (Cleverley 46), Sturridge (Delfouneso 65). Subs Not Used: Steele, Wickham.

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rob_flecks_waistline added 19:44 - Jun 5 ..cleggs fault
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MunichBlue added 19:53 - Jun 5 Apparently he has changed his name... Connor WickMan? http://bleacherreport.com/articles/716977-football-transfer-gossip-the-biggest-p
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depressed added 19:53 - Jun 5 According to Wikipedia, Wikham has signed for Liverpool for ten million today.
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depressed added 19:54 - Jun 5 ^^^^^Wickham even !!^^^^^
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Sindre94 added 19:59 - Jun 5 Put up Norway's team aswell!;)
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ITFC4daprem added 20:14 - Jun 5 just resting seriously Delfonso played
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itfc1981 added 20:30 - Jun 5 god knows why he brought on the walking joke that is Delfouneso!
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Loyal_S added 20:43 - Jun 5 Clegg's In Cyprus...No deals likely to be done any time soon then!
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dynamicduo added 21:23 - Jun 5 wikipedia has changed doesn't say it anymore it says that norwich where interested in signing him but he laughed it off because the county is full of inbreads!! Something tells me wikipedia got changed
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paul73 added 21:25 - Jun 5 Attended this game afternoon,wickham the only outfield player not to get any minutes on the pitch.To me he looked somewhat a lonely figure within the squad,defintley 4th choice striker.
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paul73 added 21:28 - Jun 5 Attended this game afternoon,wickham the only outfield player not to get any minutes on the pitch.To me he looked somewhat a lonely figure within the squad,defintley 4th choice striker.
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DiamondGezzer added 06:47 - Jun 6 Perhaps they're saving him as a secret weapon against the Spanish ?
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