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Rob Page says he has cleared the air with Football Association of Wales chief Noel Mooney after their public spat last month.<\/p>\n
Mooney put Page\u2019s future in the spotlight four days before the Euro 2024 qualifier against Croatia by saying the manager\u2019s position would be reviewed if Wales did not qualify for Euro 2024 automatically.<\/p>\n
Subsequent media reports suggested Mooney had wanted fellow Irishman Roy Keane, the former Sunderland and Ipswich manager and TV pundit, to replace Page following June defeats to Armenia and Turkey.<\/p>\n
Page is just over 12 months into a four-year contract and promised to \u201cignore the noise\u201d during the build-up to a game that Wales eventually won 2-1 to move into the second automatic qualifying place in Group D.<\/p>\n
Captain Ben Davies described Mooney\u2019s comments as \u201cnot helpful\u201d, and Page said the issue has since been addressed at a meeting between himself, the chief executive and FAW president Steve Williams.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt was a conversation all three of us needed,\u201d Page said when announcing his squad on Wednesday for this month\u2019s final Euro 2024 qualifiers against Armenia and Turkey.<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019m not going to go into details of what was said. It needed to be done and only positives will come from it.<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019m due to meet him (Mooney) after the press conference and we\u2019ll have a coffee and a chat.<\/p>\n
It was frustrating, unnecessary. But I don’t want to spend any more time thinking about it. We’re all on the same page<\/p>\n
\u201cThings were said and that was it. We all move forward in the same direction. Full focus is now on the football.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt was frustrating, unnecessary. But I don\u2019t want to spend any more time thinking about it. We\u2019re all on the same page.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe all know what we\u2019ve got to do. It would be disrespectful from me now to the players to keep going on about it.\u201d<\/p>\n
Tottenham forward Brennan Johnson returns to a 23-man squad after missing the win over Croatia with a hamstring injury.<\/p>\n
Page maintains stand-in skipper Davies will be fit for both qualifiers, despite the defender missing Spurs\u2019 4-1 Premier League defeat against Chelsea on Monday and also being in danger of sitting out his club\u2019s weekend game at Wolves.<\/p>\n
Sunderland defender Niall Huggins has won his first senior call-up and Portsmouth midfielder Joe Morrell returns after a two-match suspension.<\/p>\n
But Aaron Ramsey is again ruled out with the knee injury he sustained in September, and Page says the Cardiff midfielder has suffered a \u201csetback\u201d in his recovery.<\/p>\n
He said: \u201cIt\u2019s disappointing, I found out on Friday last week. As we all know Aaron was pushing and pushing to be part of this camp.<\/p>\n
\u201cUnfortunately it\u2019s come a little too soon for him. He\u2019s had a setback. He got up to about 90 per cent. If you\u2019d seen him on the grass, straight lines, everything was fine.<\/p>\n
\u201cBut there was something stopping him from going to that last step. So it\u2019s not great for us, but it gives others an opportunity.<\/p>\n
\u201cHe\u2019ll be a part of it (the squad). I had that conversation with him last camp. He knew he wasn\u2019t going to play any minutes in regards to the changing room, but to have Aaron around the lads is definitely beneficial.\u201d<\/p>\n
Wales can avoid the play-offs in March by beating Armenia in Yerevan on November 18 and Turkey in Cardiff three days later.<\/p>\n
Dropped points in either game will leave them relying on other results to join already-qualified Turkey at next summer\u2019s European Championship in Germany.<\/p>\n
\u201cJune was a bump in the road,\u201d Page said of damaging defeats to Armenia and Turkey in the space of four days.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe didn\u2019t like it. We didn\u2019t appreciate it. We didn\u2019t like what we saw, but we put it right in September (by beating Latvia) \u2013 and some.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe built on that in October and capped it off with arguably one of the best performances that I\u2019ve seen.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe have to build on that. It will count for nothing if we don\u2019t follow it up.\u201d<\/p>\n