Gareth Southgate plans to bring Harry Maguire back into the England set-up next month having withdrawn the defender from this squad following his Greek court case.
Four days after his arrest in the early hours of 21 August following an alleged incident on the island of Mykonos, the 27-year-old was found guilty of assaulting a police officer, swearing, resisting arrest and attempted bribery.
Maguire maintains his innocence and has lodged an appeal, and the Manchester United captain has said he feared for his life during his arrest.
He will not be involved in England’s Nations League double-header against Iceland and Denmark. Southgate, asked whether he had been in contact with Maguire and whether the player would come back into the thinking in October, said: “Yes and yes. We’ve been in touch right the way through the last two and a half weeks.
“It’s clearly been a really difficult period for him and I think the last few days have been very important for him to relax, get away from all the attention and get a rest.”
England are due to play a friendly at home against Wales on 8 October and then host Belgium and Denmark in the Nations League on 11 and 14 October respectively.