Roy Hodgson will allow England Under-21 coach Gareth Southgate to pick who he wants for Uefa Championships Roy Hodgson has given Gareth Southgate, the England Under-21s coach, first call on players next summer, meaning that three senior internationals, Luke Shaw, Calum Chambers and John Stones, and the highly-regarded Saido Berahino will travel to the Uefa Championship in the Czech Republic, missing two senior games. Hodgson's side face the Republic of Ireland in a Dublin friendly on June 7 and the Euro 2016 qualifier against Slovenia in Ljubljana on June 14. Shaw, Chambers, Stones and Berahino have been involved in qualifying for the Uefa Championship and are eager to play for Southgate's team in the tournament that starts on June 18 against Portugal, with further group fixtures against Sweden on June 21 and Italy three days later. Both Hodgson and Southgate have decided that players will not do both the Dublin/Ljubljana and Czech trips, especially as it would complicate the Under-21s" preparations. Phil Jones, Jack Wilshere and Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain are eligible for the Under-21s but are unlikely to be considered because they are more established with Hodgson's squad. No decision has yet been made on Ross Barkley, 20, or Raheem Sterling, 19, but it would be a surprise if the Liverpool player was taken away from Hodgson's squad. Yet Hodgson still indicated that Sterling could be available to Southgate. "My policy is this: after Gareth has picked his squad I will pick my squad," Hodgson said. I will take whatever is left. He will speak to me and tell me what he wants to do. There have been disagreements in the past over which player should attend which event, and at what point a talented youngster becomes established in the senior squad and should not drop back down. That debate may yet be had over Shaw in particular. Hodgson has previously commented that he felt that once a young player has stepped up for a while he should stay with the seniors. "I tend to believe that to some extent,"" Hodgson said, adding: "I am also prepared to accept that the tournament is important. If Gareth thinks the best way to win the tournament is to jettison a lot of the players he's been working with and take players from our team then that is fine by me too, but the decision is Gareth's and his alone. He will be under no pressure from me whatsoever. We have a lot of players these days. We can deal with four or five absentees. It also would mean that any senior players playing in the tournament in the Czech Republic will be playing three tournaments in a row without a break, three summers in a row without a break from football at all. "Clubs" co-operation when it comes to selecting players is always important. As far as I understand, the Fifa rules give us the right to choose whatever players we want. Whether the clubs will be happy with us choosing them, that's another matter. But luckily it's not my choice. I will have a choice after Gareth's selection of the players I want to take to play against Ireland and in Slovenia. I can assure you that we will have 11 players on the field on both occasions. Hodgson sounded fairly dismissive about the debate but clearly an internal dialogue has been going on at the Football Association, which is keen for generations to develop together, acquiring tournament experience and fostering camaraderie that will then help the seniors. The issue also signals the influence of Southgate, who is considered Hodgson's long-term successor by many within the FA.