Aaron Wan-Bissaka Photo: VCG

The impending start of the European Championships and Copa America - albeit a year late - have seen  a number of national team squads, each being analyzed by the press and the public.

There are only a certain number of places so the decisions of who goes and who stays are pored over in the press and online with every fan and pundit offering what they would differently.

Some may have picked for the following players, those listed as the highest-valued footballers yet to get a national team call-up - with the figures coming from German-based website Transfermarkt. What's for sure is that these players might not yet have interested their national team bosses but they are filling the transfer gossip columns.

Jules Kounde - France

The Sevilla defender will not be uncapped for long, having been called up to the World Cup winners' final 26-man squad for the Euros by boss Didier Deschamps. The boss admitted that the delay of a year may have helped Kounde and others.

"I think the list a year ago would not have been the one I have today," Deschamps said on revealing his squad. "Kounde could have been with us in March but I let him be with under-21s.

"We've been following him a while. He's had a great season and can play in different positions."

An international bow will be a baptism of fire for Kounde as France face Germany, Portugal and Hungary in Group F.

Theo Hernandez - France

Another French defender who has impressed this season but AC Milan fullback Hernandez has still not been called up yet. His brother, Bayern Munich's Lucas Hernandez, has long backed Theo to join him in the full squad.

"Theo is doing great from an attacking point of view," Lucas said in March. "Personally, I hope that he can be here with us one day but it is not a choice that I can make.

"Since he signed for Milan, he has improved a lot and you can see it in every match. He scores goals and makes assists repeatedly. He is my brother so I am biased but he is also an excellent player. I like him a lot and I wish to see him here in the national team soon."

The former Real Madrid fullback has been linked with a move from Milan to Paris St-Germain.

Aymeric Laporte - Spain

Another defender not called up for France this summer but he is going to the Euros with Spain after applying for and getting international clearance last month.

The 26-year-old won the English Premier League and Carabao Cup with Manchester City this season before tasting disappointment in the UEFA Champions League final to defeat against Chelsea. 

He could put that behind him with a successful summer with Spain, though The Athletic reported that he is among several players who is willing to leave Manchester in the near future. Laporte represented France at various age group levels.

Diego Carlos - Brazil

The 28-year-old defender is the oldest player on this list and missed out on Brazil's Copa America squad this summer. That came as a shock to some after another stellar season with Sevilla though he might have played his way to a big move this summer - Manchester United and Bayern Munich have both been linked with the stopper.

Florian Wirtz - Germany

Another player linked with Bayern Munich, and also Liverpool, the 18-year-old has had a standout season with Bayer Leverkusen in the Bundesliga. He has his fans at the club, whom he joined from Cologne.

"It's impressive how courageously and confidently Flo has already asserted himself in professional football," Simon Rolfes, Leverkusen's director of sport, told the Bundesliga website. "He has what it takes to become a top player in the Bundesliga in the coming years, and also an important element of the German national team."

Wirtz has been called up to the Germany squad, watching the March qualifiers against Iceland, Romania and North Macedonia from the bench. His time will surely come.

Aaron Wan-Bissaka - England

The Manchester United right-back has become a stalwart in Ole ­Gunnar Solskjaer's side but he has too many standing in his way for Gareth Southgate's Three Lions. With Kieran Trippier, Kyle Walker, Reece James and Trent Alexander-Arnold ahead of him on the list - and not all able to go to the Euros with England - it could be a long while before he gets a first international nod.

Christopher Nkunku - France

The former Paris St-Germain winger was tipped for a senior France call-up during his trophy-laden teenage years in the French capital and he has got even better since signing for RB Leipzig. That he has yet to be called up to the senior side is more testament to the strength in depth that Deschamps can call on - a big move might make him harder to ignore.

Moussa Diaby - France

Another at Bayer Leverkusen, another former PSG player, and another of the French talents who are yet to pull on the shirt for Les Bleus. Diaby has been linked with moves to Everton and Borussia Dortmund.

Boubacar Kamara - France

The Marseille ­midfielder has opened the door to a move, saying "we will think" at the end of the season. 

"I do not know because I have been here since I was very young. I have never felt this desire to leave. But I think that I am ready to go anywhere with what I have experienced at Marseille." 

Arsenal are among his reported suitors.

Ibrahima Konate - France

The defender has just signed for Liverpool from RB Leipzig and fans of his new club were purring at his performance for France's under-21s against the Netherlands last week. Some even compared him to their defensive colossus Virgil van Dijk.

"He is a very technical center-back," German journalist Rafa Honigstein told Liverpool's website. 

"He is just a top, an absolute top player. If it's true that center-backs, a little bit like center-forwards, tend to mature a little bit later - and I guess Van Dijk is a very good example of that - then the ceiling is still very, very high for him."