The Arsenal midfielder has not played a single game this season but the England manager insists that the door is open to any player to earn a call-up for the tournament
Roy Hodgson has admitted that Jack Wilshere could still make his Euro 2016 squad, despite the Arsenal midfielder not playing a single game this season.
The 24-year-old broke his fibula before the start of the campaign and has been sidelined ever since, with Arsene Wenger hopeful that he will return in three to four weeks.
The Three Lions have two friendlies - against Germany and Netherlands - before Hodgson must name his squad for Euro 2016 and he insists that he is not closing the door on Wilshere, maintaining that he should not need a large amount of recovery time from his injury woes.
"Dave Mackay came back from two broken legs," Hodgson said when asked about Wilshere's situation.
"The first one he came back almost immediately after his leg was healed and played a game, and then he broke it again but played again as soon as it healed again.
"I don't know why we should be quite as protective as all that. Players are either fit to play or not. Whether they play 30 games, 40 games, 10 games, 15 games, eight games, I don't understand that.
"For me it's all about the class of the player. It's about who is in form and out of form. Even to some extent I have to rely on others' judgement on that.
"Form is transient, but class isn't. We need classy players and players we can trust and players we know what they will give us and players who have the desire, motivation and wish to play for England, to do all that's necessary.
"Luckily we have some of those. But let's be realistic, we are not in the 60, 70 and 80s when it comes to those. If there are 30 players who reach the high standards I demand we will have to pick 23 from them."
- Goal