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21st September 2018
09:57am BST

"I think his response was interesting, that he’s good enough for Watford but not for us, that message comes across that anyone who plays for a lesser team that doesn’t plays a certain style of football isn't going to be good enough for England," Deeney said on The Premier League Show.
"If you look at a Danny Ings, Glenn Murray, Callum Wilson, we would probably all be arguing well what do I need to be in the team?
Deeney has already found the net on two occasions in the Hornets' remarkable start to the season, which has seen them win four of their five Premier League games. The forward puts a lot of his recent success this term down to his noticeably slimmer physique. Deeney was motivated to lose weight after being mocked in the early weeks of the campaign. "I got up on my 30th birthday and went to the bathroom and looked into the mirror and thought ‘ooft, is this what it has come to? It was the first time I’d looked at my body and I wasn’t happy with what I was seeing," Deeney said. "This season I’ve been written off and people have called me fat so I’ve thought I’ll show you. I just need to be motivated and stimulated mentally. I know I can do anything if I put my mind to it.""Because no offence to Danny Welbeck, I’ve got a lot of time for Danny Welbeck, but he’s not playing but he’s still being picked, so is it a case that it's just the team?"
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