?Forget what you?ve done?: Bellamy wants Wales players to switch focus to World Cup

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Craig Bellamy has said his Wales players must reset and focus on a the World Cup qualifying double-header regardless of whether they finished the season ?on a trampoline or with a ball around their neck?. Brennan Johnson and Ben Davies won the Europa League with Tottenham, while Bellamy?s squad for matches against Liechtenstein and Belgium also includes a quartet of Leeds players in Karl Darlow, Ethan Ampadu, Joe Rodon and Daniel James, who recently celebrated promotion to the Premier League.

Connor Roberts was also promoted with Burnley, but Bellamy is mindful other players experienced disappointment. The Wales manager said: ?It?s a positive [to have winners in the squad]. But when I was at a club, anyone who went away for international football and came back it was: ?Forget about what you?ve just done. Focus on what we?re doing here. Every meeting, every part of football you thought you?d just learned there, forget about it. Get back on track here.?

?It?s the same here with international football. You?ll have a moment where you can congratulate players and I love them being on a high. But I also have to be responsible for players that perhaps haven?t had the season they would have expected. As well as your egos, everything else is forgotten, it?s not going to serve you here. ?This is what we do, how we work.?
?You?re in a different world, you need to be in our world and they always are. Whether they?re coming in on a trampoline or with a ball round their neck, off we go.?
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