John Carver reveals RB Leipzig insider has already made plans for Scotland base

SCOTLAND’S stars have been told to not even think about checking out of their Euros training camp hotel.

Steve Clarke’s squad travel to Stuttgart today for their must-win final Group A clash with Hungary on Sunday night.

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And assistant boss John Carver has revealed the players’ rooms at their Garmisch-Partenkirchen base have been kept open.

He said: “We’ve not even spoken about packing our bags, don’t worry about that. Nobody has spoken about packing bags, we’re not interested in it.

“That is so important mentally. You don’t want the devil on your shoulder saying, ‘Get upstairs and pack your bags’.

“Nobody’s even dropped it into the conversation.

“My wife hasn’t even spoken about going home, which is a good thing. I am being genuine.

“We’re just planning for going and getting the right result. Why wouldn’t you want to stay here?

“The players are staying, everything is staying. We haven’t spoken about it.

“The guy who is in charge of our training ground is an English lad who works for RB Leipzig.

“He came down and he’s been working with us. He’s a great guy, so helpful. He has given us everything we wanted.

“But he left yesterday and he said, ‘I’m coming back on Monday, I’ll see you then’.

“And I said, ‘Absolutely, I can’t wait to see you!’.

“I am as positive as they come, you know what I’m like.”

Carver insists the players are determined to grab their chance of becoming the first Scotland team to reach the knockout stage of a major tournament.

He added: “We can’t hide away from that because it’s true, it’s fact. Let’s see how the game develops and plays out.

“But if we do it, we will be the first team to do it, and people will remember the team to do it for the first time.

“That’s what they have to think about in the back of their minds.

“These guys have got us to this tournament and we deserve to be there.

“They have put in all the work and effort to get us to where we are — so why can’t we go one step further and take it to that next level?

“Because that’s what we want. We all want that, and there is no reason why we can’t after what we saw a couple of days ago.

“It has been a bit of a whirlwind since the Switzerland game.

“After we finished the game the other night, we got back to the hotel, got to bed at 2am, got up at 10am, got on a plane, came back here, got over to do a recovery session in the afternoon.

“It has been a million miles an hour.

“We’ve been trying to put videos together and the guys have done a great job doing that.

“We finished very light training this morning with the lads who played.

“The others had a really good session.”

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