Personal information :Full name : James Philip Milner
Date of birth : 4 January 1986
Place of birth : Wortley, Leeds, England
Height : 5 ft 9 in (1.75 m)
Playing position : Midfielder
Current club : Manchester City
Number : 7
Youth career :
1996–2002 Leeds United
Senior career :
2002–2004 Leeds United
2003 Swindon Town (loan)
2004–2008 Newcastle United
2005–2006 Aston Villa (loan)
2008–2010 Aston Villa
2010– Manchester City
National team :
2001–2002 England U16
2002–2003 England U17
2003 England U19
2003–2004 England U20
2004–2009 England U21
2009– England
Club career
Leeds United
Milner's debut for Leeds United came on ten November 2002, in a game against West Ham United, as shortly as he came on as a substitute for Jason Wilcox for the final six minutes. The arrival prepared him the second youngest actor ever to play in the Premier League, at the age of 16 years and 309 days. On Boxing Day of that year, he became the youngest actor to score in the Premier League, with a target in a 2–1 win against Sunderland. His record has since been breached via James Vaughan of Everton.
In a suit against Chelsea a month subsequent, Milner scored again, with a deft first touch of the ball and manoeuvre, in command to evade a tackle from Chelsea defender Marcel Desailly, that won common compliment from commentators. The manoeuvre composed a yard of space for him to deliver a curling shot from 18 yards (16 m). Reporters were impressed via his overall performance in the game, notably via his thirst, confidence, and skill with both feet. Chelsea administrator Claudio Ranieri remarked afterwards the game that Milner had executed like a much more worldly player. The performance prompted comparisons to England internationals Michael Owen and Wayne Rooney, whoever had also reach footballing prominence as teenagers. The BBC appealed in a poll on their website whether he was a superior likelihood than Rooney. After more arrivals for Leeds, Milner gestured a five-year contract with them on ten February 2003. At the begin of the 2003–04 season, Milner was sent on a month-long lend to Division Two side Swindon Town to gain experience as a first-team player. Before the stint, he saw it as a valuable experience as a player.[6] He consumed a month with Swindon, playing in six sport and scoring pair targets against Peterborough and Luton.
However, Leeds United's fortunes were on the decline; the team became the subject of many negative stories in the media, and a figure of first-team players were sold. Milner said he conceived that this experience prepared him emotionally stronger and trained him how to sell with team problems. Leeds's eventual relegation to the Championship led to speculation across Milner's future at the club. Tottenham Hotspur, Aston Villa and Everton all conveyed an hobby in signing him. Ultimately, Villa and Everton did not produce offers and Milner discarded an offer from Tottenham as they were founded too far from his family home, where he motionless lived. Leeds insisted that he would not be marketed and the chairman of the club at the time even referred to him as "the future of Leeds". Nonetheless, commercial troubles finally coerced Leeds to sell Milner to Newcastle United for an original price of £3,600,000. Although Milner was not joyous to be retiring the club he had advocated as a kid, he wished to do what was "in the club's best interest" and in July 2004, he matched a five-year sell with Newcastle.
Newcastle United
Milner prepared his first arrival for Newcastle United during their pre-season tour of Asia, scoring his first target for the club in a 1–1 draw against Kitchee, in Hong Kong. During this tour, he took the frontier to notice how Newcastle striker Alan Shearer dealt with attention from fans and the media. He said that his club with citizens like Shearer gave him a superior notion of how to sell with the media. Milner's first Premier League game for Newcastle came against Middlesbrough on 18 August 2004, in which he played on the extreme right of the field as a winger, regardless having featured routinely on the retired for Leeds. When appealed approximate this afterwards the suit, Milner said he had no preference where on the tone he played. A month subsequent he prepared his debut in European competition, as shortly as Newcastle played in the UEFA Cup against Bnei Sakhnin from Israel, afterwards emanating on as a substitute for Shola Ameobi. In the same month, he scored his first competitive target for the club, also as a substitute, in a 3–1 win against West Bromwich Albion. It gazed likely he would shortly begin a game.
However, the conditions altered for Milner afterwards Newcastle administrator Bobby Robson, whom Milner assessed his mentor, was sacked and displaced via Graeme Souness. Under Souness, he began 13 league sport, but did not play his first full Premier League game for Newcastle until April 2005. By the end of the season, he had prepared 41 arrivals in all contests and scored once. Souness did not produce Milner a regular in the Newcastle side and controversially remarked that the club would not win "with a team of James Milners". Milner's answer to this pronouncement was reported as "mature". He did however make sure that he was frustrated at not being accustomed as a starter for majority of the season.
At the begin of the 2005–06 season, Milner scored in Newcastle's 3–1 away win against FK ZTS Dubnica in the Intertoto Cup, and also establish Shearer for the team's third goal. His good run of model in this competition lasted as shortly as he scored in the following around against Deportivo La Coruña. Despite these targets, a clause in Newcastle's buy of Nolberto Solano from Aston Villa resulted in Milner being lent to Villa for the relax of the season. Villa administrator David O'Leary, whoever had handled Milner at Leeds, was joyous to incur Milner in this sell, phrase that he conceived Villa obtained the superior of the sell and that he hoped to renew him as a player.
Loan to Aston Villa
Milner prepared his Villa debut on 12 September 2005 in a Premiership suit against West Ham. Five days subsequent, he scored his first target for the club in a 1–1 draw against Tottenham Hotspur. In a League Cup game fewer than a week subsequent, he facilitated his side recover from being 3–1 down at half-time to win 8–3 against Wycombe Wanderers, scoring pair targets in the second half comeback. Throughout the season Milner was positive approximate his team. He waited hopeful that Villa would recover from a hard upward begin to the season and praised the quality of the squad.
Milner was usually perceived as a positive signing in a season that was discouraging for Villa. Milner himself also received the lend shift positively, phrase that he would like to attend Villa permanently because of the probability of becoming a regular starter, but admitted that the chance of this befalling was beyond his control. Manager David O'Leary confirmed during the season that he would like Milner to attend the club permanently, but doubted he would be given the frontier to clue him. He even dragged out of signing Robert Huth so that he would have the funds to clue Milner permanently whether the frontier arose. Shortly ago the end of his lend term, negotiations between Villa and Newcastle began.
The newly-appointed Newcastle administrator Glenn Roeder emerged to realise Milner's skill more than Souness and conveyed a thirst that he remain a Newcastle player. This, as well as the withdrawal of O'Leary and the dearth of transfer funds at Villa, meant that a sell to clue Milner permanently seemed unlikely. In June, it became even fewer possible as shortly as Villa discarded an offer of Milner as fraction of a import for Gareth Barry. However, the sell was resurrected as shortly as Villa were removed across via American billionaire Randy Lerner, and Martin O'Neill was appointed as fresh Villa manager. Villa prepared an renewed offer on thirty August, which was acknowledged via Newcastle chairman Freddy Shepherd. Media origins quoted the transfer payment as being £4,000,000. A shift to Villa emerged to have been matched, but at the final moment Newcastle remembered Milner and the confers snapped down.
Return to Newcastle United
Milner takes a adrift kick during the 2006–07 season
Newcastle's players and administrator Glenn Roeder reacted positively to Milner's return at first of the 2006–07 season. Roeder praised Milner for the way he had handled the malfunctioned Villa transfer, however Roeder's possess handling of the negotiations was criticised. Roeder confirmed that he would play Milner in "plenty of games" during the season. This proved to be the shell, as Milner was a starter in the Newcastle side for the complete season.
Newcastle prepared a hard upward begin in the Premier League, but in European competition, Milner played a pivotal role in facilitating Newcastle improve through the team degree of the UEFA Cup. Shortly afterwards, rumours originated to spread that he would be marketed during the transfer window in January, however both Milner and Roeder sacked these rumours.
On 1 January 2007 Milner scored his first target of the season in a 2–2 draw with Manchester United. The target came from a "stunning" shot from 25 yards (23 m) away. He scored pair more targets during the following three weeks, against Birmingham City and thereafter against West Ham United. Both of these were scored from at least twenty yards (20 m) away. Later in the season, Roeder praised the progress Milner had prepared and said that he conceived him to be the hardest-training actor at the club. Also during the season, Milner exhibited his skill to play comfortably in a range of unlike locations via scoring and establishing targets with both feet from both sides. As a effect, Milner gestured a fresh contract at Newcastle in January, which roped his future at the club until 2011. He gestured another four-year contract in May 2007, as shortly as Sam Allardyce took across as administrator of Newcastle. Milner said subsequent in the year that he was joyous approximate his future at the club and its fresh administrator phrase the that training sessions were "the best since I have been here". Allardyce said during the season that Milner was so eager to play, that he was worried he would "burn out mentally physically". As a effect, Milner played primarily as a substitute in the early fraction of the season.
In late October, he scored Newcastle's 500th home Premier League target in a 3–1 win across Tottenham Hotspur.A second Premier League target of the season came fortuitously in the Tyne-Wear derby from a shot meant as a cross. Allardyce praised Milner highly during the season, phrase he was "a massively worldly Premier League player". After absent the final nine sport of the season due to a foot injury, it was rumoured in May 2008 that he would be fraction of a transfer between Newcastle and Liverpool. Despite beginning the season for Newcastle and scoring in a League Cup win across Coventry City, it was disclosed afterwards the game that Milner had handed in a written transfer apply the week before. Milner gestured for Aston Villa on 29 August 2008 for a payment of twelve million pounds, and gestured a four-year contract with the club.
Return to Aston Villa
Milner prepared his debut for Villa on 31 August 2008 as a second-half substitute against Liverpool . His first targets in his second spell at Villa came in a third around FA Cup tie against Gillingham at Priestfield Stadium on 4 January 2009 on his 23rd birthday, where he scored both targets in a 2–1 win for Villa. Milner's first Premier League target in his second spell at Villa came on 17 January 2009 in a suit against Sunderland at the Stadium of Light. Milner headed in a traverse from Villa midfielder Ashley Young to horizontal the scores at 1–1, Villa went on to win the suit 2–1. On seven February 2009, Milner was dubbed to the England full team squad for the first time, afterwards a run at club horizontal that had impressed England administrator Fabio Capello. Milner lasted to impress and scored his second league target of the season against Blackburn Rovers with a rifled shot from a difficult bend afterwards a corner had not been plugged down. He subsequent scored a free-kick from outdoors the punishment field at home against Everton as Villa came rear from a 3–1 deficit to draw horizontal at 3–3. He stated that his time at Villa is the "most settled" term of his career so far, having played beneath thirteen administrators and caretakers regardless being merely 23.On 19 May 2010, Manchester City prepared a £20 million offer for Milner which was rejected. On 22 July 2010, Villa administrator Martin O'Neill said that Milner had shown a thirst to retire Villa for City, but would merely be marketed at Villa's valuation. On 14 August regardless being on the verge of a shift to Manchester City, Milner played in Villa's first game of the season against West Ham United, scoring Villa's third goal. Milner was given a standing ovation as shortly as he was substituted near the end of the game.
Manchester City
On 17 August 2010 it was reported that Aston Villa had matched a sell with Manchester City to sell Milner subject to a medical. The sell was reported to be value circle £28 million, encompassing a actor exchange of Stephen Ireland, prized at £8 million.Milner prepared his debut for City on 23 August 2010 in a 3–0 win against Liverpool, where he establish the first target for prior Villa teammate Gareth Barry.Milner scored his first competitive target for Manchester City in an FA Cup third-round suit at Leicester City which ended in a 2-2 draw.
International career
Under-21
After on behalf of England at the U-15 and U-17 floors, Milner was promoted to the U-20 horizontal and paged upward for the 2003 World Youth Championship. Soon afterwards this, Under-21 administrator Peter Taylor paged him upward to the England Under-21 side and Milner prepared his debut against Sweden on thirty March 2004.
Milner scored his first target for the England Under-21 side during the 2004–05 season in a qualification game for the 2007 European Under-21 Championship, against Wales. During the game, in which he played in the core of midfield, he also establish a scoring chance for Darren Bent as the Young Lions won 2–0. Despite servant club troubles, he lasted to produce progress at global horizontal, scoring the winning target for the England Under-21 side in a 3–2 win across Switzerland. The win roped England a position in the playoff degree of the 2007 Under-21 European Championship qualifiers.
In June, Milner competed for England at the 2007 UEFA European Under-21 Football Championship. He played in all four of England's suits and was reserved in the semi-final against the Netherlands, which meant he would have missed the final. The game was decided via a punishment shootout, in which Milner scored double and England no where 13–12. Milner's performance in the tournament led to rumours that he would produce his full England debut in a friendly against Germany, but he was not included in the squad for the match. He was however included in the Under-21 squad for a friendly against Romania, which ended in a 1–1 draw. A month subsequent, Milner set an England Under-21 record via earning his 30th arrival for the side in a 3–0 win against Montenegro. During this game, he establish the first target from a corner. Historically, players with a figure of England Under-21 arrivals have not progressed to become regulars in the senior side, which has led several to disbelief whether Milner would be able to successfully produce the transition. In October, he scored his third target for the Under-21 side in a 3–0 win across Republic of Ireland. He scored again in the return game four months subsequent that England also won 3–0.
Milner lasted to be a regular and was the merely actor, along with Joe Hart and captain Steven Taylor, to have played in all the qualifiers for the European Championships. In the summer of 2009, he was in the final 23-man U21 squad for the UEFA European Under-21 Football Championship in Sweden. He facilitated establish the winning target for Micah Richards against Finland, and administrator Stuart Pearce said afterwards the suit, "The modern-day full-back can obtain upward and down the tone and I knew [Milner] would be comfortable". In England's second suit against Spain, Milner had a punishment well saved via Sergio Asenjo, and scored England's second target in a 2–0 win. England faced the lots Sweden in the semi-finals. In the first tiny of the suit, Milner delivered a corner the was headed in via Martin Cranie to give England the lead. Another corner from Milner would establish England's third target, an possess target via Mattias Bjärsmyr. After the suit ended in a 3–3 draw, it went to a punishment shootout. Milner was the merely England actor to miss in the shootout afterwards he slipped just ago kicking the ball, causing it to sail across the crossbar. England won the shootout 5–4 to improve to the final for the first time in 25 years. England no where the final to Germany 4–0 and Milner said afterwards the suit that the team was "hurting" and that the way in which the team no where was "not good enough". The final was his final game for the beneath 21 side.
Leeds United
Milner's debut for Leeds United came on ten November 2002, in a game against West Ham United, as shortly as he came on as a substitute for Jason Wilcox for the final six minutes. The arrival prepared him the second youngest actor ever to play in the Premier League, at the age of 16 years and 309 days. On Boxing Day of that year, he became the youngest actor to score in the Premier League, with a target in a 2–1 win against Sunderland. His record has since been breached via James Vaughan of Everton.
In a suit against Chelsea a month subsequent, Milner scored again, with a deft first touch of the ball and manoeuvre, in command to evade a tackle from Chelsea defender Marcel Desailly, that won common compliment from commentators. The manoeuvre composed a yard of space for him to deliver a curling shot from 18 yards (16 m). Reporters were impressed via his overall performance in the game, notably via his thirst, confidence, and skill with both feet. Chelsea administrator Claudio Ranieri remarked afterwards the game that Milner had executed like a much more worldly player. The performance prompted comparisons to England internationals Michael Owen and Wayne Rooney, whoever had also reach footballing prominence as teenagers. The BBC appealed in a poll on their website whether he was a superior likelihood than Rooney. After more arrivals for Leeds, Milner gestured a five-year contract with them on ten February 2003. At the begin of the 2003–04 season, Milner was sent on a month-long lend to Division Two side Swindon Town to gain experience as a first-team player. Before the stint, he saw it as a valuable experience as a player.[6] He consumed a month with Swindon, playing in six sport and scoring pair targets against Peterborough and Luton.
However, Leeds United's fortunes were on the decline; the team became the subject of many negative stories in the media, and a figure of first-team players were sold. Milner said he conceived that this experience prepared him emotionally stronger and trained him how to sell with team problems. Leeds's eventual relegation to the Championship led to speculation across Milner's future at the club. Tottenham Hotspur, Aston Villa and Everton all conveyed an hobby in signing him. Ultimately, Villa and Everton did not produce offers and Milner discarded an offer from Tottenham as they were founded too far from his family home, where he motionless lived. Leeds insisted that he would not be marketed and the chairman of the club at the time even referred to him as "the future of Leeds". Nonetheless, commercial troubles finally coerced Leeds to sell Milner to Newcastle United for an original price of £3,600,000. Although Milner was not joyous to be retiring the club he had advocated as a kid, he wished to do what was "in the club's best interest" and in July 2004, he matched a five-year sell with Newcastle.
Newcastle United
Milner prepared his first arrival for Newcastle United during their pre-season tour of Asia, scoring his first target for the club in a 1–1 draw against Kitchee, in Hong Kong. During this tour, he took the frontier to notice how Newcastle striker Alan Shearer dealt with attention from fans and the media. He said that his club with citizens like Shearer gave him a superior notion of how to sell with the media. Milner's first Premier League game for Newcastle came against Middlesbrough on 18 August 2004, in which he played on the extreme right of the field as a winger, regardless having featured routinely on the retired for Leeds. When appealed approximate this afterwards the suit, Milner said he had no preference where on the tone he played. A month subsequent he prepared his debut in European competition, as shortly as Newcastle played in the UEFA Cup against Bnei Sakhnin from Israel, afterwards emanating on as a substitute for Shola Ameobi. In the same month, he scored his first competitive target for the club, also as a substitute, in a 3–1 win against West Bromwich Albion. It gazed likely he would shortly begin a game.
However, the conditions altered for Milner afterwards Newcastle administrator Bobby Robson, whom Milner assessed his mentor, was sacked and displaced via Graeme Souness. Under Souness, he began 13 league sport, but did not play his first full Premier League game for Newcastle until April 2005. By the end of the season, he had prepared 41 arrivals in all contests and scored once. Souness did not produce Milner a regular in the Newcastle side and controversially remarked that the club would not win "with a team of James Milners". Milner's answer to this pronouncement was reported as "mature". He did however make sure that he was frustrated at not being accustomed as a starter for majority of the season.
At the begin of the 2005–06 season, Milner scored in Newcastle's 3–1 away win against FK ZTS Dubnica in the Intertoto Cup, and also establish Shearer for the team's third goal. His good run of model in this competition lasted as shortly as he scored in the following around against Deportivo La Coruña. Despite these targets, a clause in Newcastle's buy of Nolberto Solano from Aston Villa resulted in Milner being lent to Villa for the relax of the season. Villa administrator David O'Leary, whoever had handled Milner at Leeds, was joyous to incur Milner in this sell, phrase that he conceived Villa obtained the superior of the sell and that he hoped to renew him as a player.
Loan to Aston Villa
Milner prepared his Villa debut on 12 September 2005 in a Premiership suit against West Ham. Five days subsequent, he scored his first target for the club in a 1–1 draw against Tottenham Hotspur. In a League Cup game fewer than a week subsequent, he facilitated his side recover from being 3–1 down at half-time to win 8–3 against Wycombe Wanderers, scoring pair targets in the second half comeback. Throughout the season Milner was positive approximate his team. He waited hopeful that Villa would recover from a hard upward begin to the season and praised the quality of the squad.
Milner was usually perceived as a positive signing in a season that was discouraging for Villa. Milner himself also received the lend shift positively, phrase that he would like to attend Villa permanently because of the probability of becoming a regular starter, but admitted that the chance of this befalling was beyond his control. Manager David O'Leary confirmed during the season that he would like Milner to attend the club permanently, but doubted he would be given the frontier to clue him. He even dragged out of signing Robert Huth so that he would have the funds to clue Milner permanently whether the frontier arose. Shortly ago the end of his lend term, negotiations between Villa and Newcastle began.
The newly-appointed Newcastle administrator Glenn Roeder emerged to realise Milner's skill more than Souness and conveyed a thirst that he remain a Newcastle player. This, as well as the withdrawal of O'Leary and the dearth of transfer funds at Villa, meant that a sell to clue Milner permanently seemed unlikely. In June, it became even fewer possible as shortly as Villa discarded an offer of Milner as fraction of a import for Gareth Barry. However, the sell was resurrected as shortly as Villa were removed across via American billionaire Randy Lerner, and Martin O'Neill was appointed as fresh Villa manager. Villa prepared an renewed offer on thirty August, which was acknowledged via Newcastle chairman Freddy Shepherd. Media origins quoted the transfer payment as being £4,000,000. A shift to Villa emerged to have been matched, but at the final moment Newcastle remembered Milner and the confers snapped down.
Return to Newcastle United
Milner takes a adrift kick during the 2006–07 season
Newcastle's players and administrator Glenn Roeder reacted positively to Milner's return at first of the 2006–07 season. Roeder praised Milner for the way he had handled the malfunctioned Villa transfer, however Roeder's possess handling of the negotiations was criticised. Roeder confirmed that he would play Milner in "plenty of games" during the season. This proved to be the shell, as Milner was a starter in the Newcastle side for the complete season.
Newcastle prepared a hard upward begin in the Premier League, but in European competition, Milner played a pivotal role in facilitating Newcastle improve through the team degree of the UEFA Cup. Shortly afterwards, rumours originated to spread that he would be marketed during the transfer window in January, however both Milner and Roeder sacked these rumours.
On 1 January 2007 Milner scored his first target of the season in a 2–2 draw with Manchester United. The target came from a "stunning" shot from 25 yards (23 m) away. He scored pair more targets during the following three weeks, against Birmingham City and thereafter against West Ham United. Both of these were scored from at least twenty yards (20 m) away. Later in the season, Roeder praised the progress Milner had prepared and said that he conceived him to be the hardest-training actor at the club. Also during the season, Milner exhibited his skill to play comfortably in a range of unlike locations via scoring and establishing targets with both feet from both sides. As a effect, Milner gestured a fresh contract at Newcastle in January, which roped his future at the club until 2011. He gestured another four-year contract in May 2007, as shortly as Sam Allardyce took across as administrator of Newcastle. Milner said subsequent in the year that he was joyous approximate his future at the club and its fresh administrator phrase the that training sessions were "the best since I have been here". Allardyce said during the season that Milner was so eager to play, that he was worried he would "burn out mentally physically". As a effect, Milner played primarily as a substitute in the early fraction of the season.
In late October, he scored Newcastle's 500th home Premier League target in a 3–1 win across Tottenham Hotspur.A second Premier League target of the season came fortuitously in the Tyne-Wear derby from a shot meant as a cross. Allardyce praised Milner highly during the season, phrase he was "a massively worldly Premier League player". After absent the final nine sport of the season due to a foot injury, it was rumoured in May 2008 that he would be fraction of a transfer between Newcastle and Liverpool. Despite beginning the season for Newcastle and scoring in a League Cup win across Coventry City, it was disclosed afterwards the game that Milner had handed in a written transfer apply the week before. Milner gestured for Aston Villa on 29 August 2008 for a payment of twelve million pounds, and gestured a four-year contract with the club.
Return to Aston Villa
Milner prepared his debut for Villa on 31 August 2008 as a second-half substitute against Liverpool . His first targets in his second spell at Villa came in a third around FA Cup tie against Gillingham at Priestfield Stadium on 4 January 2009 on his 23rd birthday, where he scored both targets in a 2–1 win for Villa. Milner's first Premier League target in his second spell at Villa came on 17 January 2009 in a suit against Sunderland at the Stadium of Light. Milner headed in a traverse from Villa midfielder Ashley Young to horizontal the scores at 1–1, Villa went on to win the suit 2–1. On seven February 2009, Milner was dubbed to the England full team squad for the first time, afterwards a run at club horizontal that had impressed England administrator Fabio Capello. Milner lasted to impress and scored his second league target of the season against Blackburn Rovers with a rifled shot from a difficult bend afterwards a corner had not been plugged down. He subsequent scored a free-kick from outdoors the punishment field at home against Everton as Villa came rear from a 3–1 deficit to draw horizontal at 3–3. He stated that his time at Villa is the "most settled" term of his career so far, having played beneath thirteen administrators and caretakers regardless being merely 23.On 19 May 2010, Manchester City prepared a £20 million offer for Milner which was rejected. On 22 July 2010, Villa administrator Martin O'Neill said that Milner had shown a thirst to retire Villa for City, but would merely be marketed at Villa's valuation. On 14 August regardless being on the verge of a shift to Manchester City, Milner played in Villa's first game of the season against West Ham United, scoring Villa's third goal. Milner was given a standing ovation as shortly as he was substituted near the end of the game.
Manchester City
On 17 August 2010 it was reported that Aston Villa had matched a sell with Manchester City to sell Milner subject to a medical. The sell was reported to be value circle £28 million, encompassing a actor exchange of Stephen Ireland, prized at £8 million.Milner prepared his debut for City on 23 August 2010 in a 3–0 win against Liverpool, where he establish the first target for prior Villa teammate Gareth Barry.Milner scored his first competitive target for Manchester City in an FA Cup third-round suit at Leicester City which ended in a 2-2 draw.
International careerUnder-21
After on behalf of England at the U-15 and U-17 floors, Milner was promoted to the U-20 horizontal and paged upward for the 2003 World Youth Championship. Soon afterwards this, Under-21 administrator Peter Taylor paged him upward to the England Under-21 side and Milner prepared his debut against Sweden on thirty March 2004.
Milner scored his first target for the England Under-21 side during the 2004–05 season in a qualification game for the 2007 European Under-21 Championship, against Wales. During the game, in which he played in the core of midfield, he also establish a scoring chance for Darren Bent as the Young Lions won 2–0. Despite servant club troubles, he lasted to produce progress at global horizontal, scoring the winning target for the England Under-21 side in a 3–2 win across Switzerland. The win roped England a position in the playoff degree of the 2007 Under-21 European Championship qualifiers.
In June, Milner competed for England at the 2007 UEFA European Under-21 Football Championship. He played in all four of England's suits and was reserved in the semi-final against the Netherlands, which meant he would have missed the final. The game was decided via a punishment shootout, in which Milner scored double and England no where 13–12. Milner's performance in the tournament led to rumours that he would produce his full England debut in a friendly against Germany, but he was not included in the squad for the match. He was however included in the Under-21 squad for a friendly against Romania, which ended in a 1–1 draw. A month subsequent, Milner set an England Under-21 record via earning his 30th arrival for the side in a 3–0 win against Montenegro. During this game, he establish the first target from a corner. Historically, players with a figure of England Under-21 arrivals have not progressed to become regulars in the senior side, which has led several to disbelief whether Milner would be able to successfully produce the transition. In October, he scored his third target for the Under-21 side in a 3–0 win across Republic of Ireland. He scored again in the return game four months subsequent that England also won 3–0.
Milner lasted to be a regular and was the merely actor, along with Joe Hart and captain Steven Taylor, to have played in all the qualifiers for the European Championships. In the summer of 2009, he was in the final 23-man U21 squad for the UEFA European Under-21 Football Championship in Sweden. He facilitated establish the winning target for Micah Richards against Finland, and administrator Stuart Pearce said afterwards the suit, "The modern-day full-back can obtain upward and down the tone and I knew [Milner] would be comfortable". In England's second suit against Spain, Milner had a punishment well saved via Sergio Asenjo, and scored England's second target in a 2–0 win. England faced the lots Sweden in the semi-finals. In the first tiny of the suit, Milner delivered a corner the was headed in via Martin Cranie to give England the lead. Another corner from Milner would establish England's third target, an possess target via Mattias Bjärsmyr. After the suit ended in a 3–3 draw, it went to a punishment shootout. Milner was the merely England actor to miss in the shootout afterwards he slipped just ago kicking the ball, causing it to sail across the crossbar. England won the shootout 5–4 to improve to the final for the first time in 25 years. England no where the final to Germany 4–0 and Milner said afterwards the suit that the team was "hurting" and that the way in which the team no where was "not good enough". The final was his final game for the beneath 21 side.
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