Baleforce
Les Bennett
I hope he gets another gig quick so we are spared that nonsense again.
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I hope he gets another gig quick so we are spared that nonsense again.
Gutter Boy
Tim Sherwood
For England? Southgate is out of contract. Who else gets close as a candidate? Dyche? Howe?
Dicko
Paul Stalteri
I do wonder who it'll be next.. there's almost zero candidates other than Howe and I doubt he's gonna leave Saudi Sportswashing Machine. Although, They'll probably sack him after a poor start to the the new season straight after we have appointed the new England manager lol
Bullet
Colin Calderwood
Gosh, so many "meh" keepers, we could do with a good new keeper arriving.
And so many "meh" defenders. Walker and Stones and ....er.... and ....um... I guess we will start with a 4 which can shift to a 3 with Walker moving up the right since we have no left back. No left winger either. And no left forward if Foden is drifting inside, so we don't really have any left side at all. Oh dear!!
Industrious midfielders. Some good ones though, I rate Rice Mainoo Wharton and we've seen Gallagher Jones Trent all perform well this year. Just 6 to pick from.
Seriously good forwards. Bellingham Kane Foden are absolutely elite. Then good quality behind that with people like Saka Bowen Gordon Palmer Watkins Grealish and I'd put Maddison quite far down that list.
Dicko
Paul Stalteri
So 7 of this squad won't go to Germany. 6 plus one of the keepers. Which 6 do you think will get left behind? There's gonna be a couple shocking omissions from all those forwards. Might even be Grealish, Bowen and/or Maddison etc. Tough decisions to make with those attacking players!
Robbo
Paul Walsh
What’s the best 11 from that lot? Seriously unbalanced squad, with so much attacking threat and gaping holes at the back. Should go full Ardilles, with Bellingham, Foden, Kane, Palmer and Saka up front-ish.
Bullet
Colin Calderwood
Well Southgate is VERY safety first stodgy boring, so perhaps he will be forced into going for it e.g. 3 diamond 3
Walker Stones [???]
Wharton Mainoo Rice
........Bellingham
Saka Kane Foden
Robbo
Paul Walsh
You would hope so - with that attacking quality, England should be able to outscore anyone.
He'll leave a bunch of those attackers at home so he can have triple cover in all defensive positions.
Dicko
Paul Stalteri
Or just play Trippier everywhere
Chrissivad
Chris Armstrong
I was looking at the BBC live feed as they were mentioning who was or wasn't making the squad.
They were talking about playing foden, Bellingham and rice in cm.
They were talking about playing foden, Bellingham and rice in cm.
I'd play Bellingham in the middle with Rice. Rice won't do anything adventurous, so Bellingham will get a bit of freedom.
Foden behind Kane, Clare Balding on the left and Saka right. When it comes to the big games and Saka starts to brick the bed, put Foden right and Grealish/Maddison in the middle.
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afsoc4life
Dean Richards
Why is Fikayo Tomori not in the squad? I am shocked. He plays regularly for Milan.
afsoc4life
Dean Richards
I agree on Tyrick Mitchell. This squad selection raises a lot of questions.
Dicko
Paul Stalteri
Think he was good last season but been a bit dodgy this season apparently.
Who knows for sure though, I haven't watched Italian football since the days of Football Italia on Channel 4!
Southgate tinkling away this generation raises questions ..
but hey, he's a nice guy and England players like each other now ...
K.D.D.D.D.Soc
Ian Walker
They might like each other but it didnt look like they knew each other last night. I would have been tinkled off if I'd laid out money to take my family to see England and find it was a "B" team. How long will it take the big brains in football to work out you can't just pick any 11 players and expect them to put in a good or convincing performance.
K.D.D.D.D.Soc
Ian Walker
Legends in their own lunchtime.
Jurgen the German
Willie Hall
I’m not anti Southgate or anything and it annoys me that the manager always gets the blame whenever England lose and the players always get away with it but I do feel he should walk or the FA need to act if we don’t win the euros depending on the circumstances. You need to see progression and whilst our defence isn’t very good, there aren’t many nations who can compete with our forwards in terms of quality and strength in depth. I wouldn’t necessarily say we’re the clear favourites and whilst you can never discount teams like Italy that know how to win, I’d say it’s only really France that have a squad of similar quality to us. I don’t think that’s being arrogant, that’s just my honest assessment and it would be nice to see Southgate allow the players to play with more freedom and be more daring rather than the typical Safegate approach.