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Loftus-Cheek, who suffered a serious Achilles injury in 2019,
has struggled to nail down a starting spot at Chelsea but the
midfielder has made 14 appearances for the London club this
season.
"He has really impressed me, Ruben, on and off the pitch,"
Potter told reporters ahead of Chelsea's Champions League clash
at Salzburg.
"He is fantastic on the ball, great physicality, great athlete.
I think he is putting himself in a situation where he will be
one of the players Gareth (Southgate) will be looking at as an
outsider for the squad. But that is Gareth's decision."
Loftus-Cheek was part of the England squad that reached the
semi-finals of the 2018 World Cup and he said going to Qatar
"would mean the world" to him.
"As a player, after going into the 2018 World Cup, you see your
trajectory to go upward and to be at the next World Cup if
everything goes well," Loftus-Cheek told reporters.
"If I go to the World Cup, it would mean the world, but that is
not at the forefront of my mind at the moment."
(Reporting by Aadi Nair in Bengaluru; Editing by Peter
Rutherford)
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