England manager Gareth Southgate took the chance to address the media at St. George's Park on Tuesday, following the incident involving Raheem Sterling and Joe Gomez on Monday.
The Three Lions boss revealed on Monday evening that Sterling wouldn't be selected for Thursday's Euro Qualifier with Montenegro at Wembley, and went into more detail about his reasons with the aim of getting focus back on this week's games.
"I love all of my players. We are like a family and all families have disagreements," he said.
"The most important thing is for a family to communicate and work through them.
"I'm dealing with a very young squad and in a sport where emotions often run high.
"I think Raheem in his [social media] post last night explained for a very brief moment his emotions ran over and it would be correct to say that's not the same for Joe.
"These things happen in football and what you have to find is a way forward and that needed some time and for emotions across the board to calm down.
"I have some excellent senior players who have played a part in bringing the group together and you need as a manager to see that the group are comfortable to work together and moving forward with that and everyone is in the right place.
TICKETS: ENGLAND V MONTENEGRO"My priority is always the care and wellbeing of all of my players - all of my players - and then you have a decision to make whether there's anything further for the benefit of the group going foward which is my reason for not selecting Raheem for the match on Thursday.
"In regards to whether that should've been made public or not, when you've made a decision like that, it's going to be public going forward on Wednesday or Thursday anyway and I'd have to deal with it then.
"I don't expect as a manager to not have to deal with issues but in the end I have to find the right solution for the group.
"I'd rather deal with it now so we can all focus on the game. The decision has been made and as a group we're moving forward and concentrating on the football.
"That's a difficult line, you try to be fair when dealing with all players. I won't always get that right but I am the manager.
"Raheem is very important for us but I felt it was the right thing."
