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England World Cup squad news

It's all very workmanlike, where's the unexpected, the rare talent that'll do something outrageous? Probably only Eze that fits that category, and he probably won't start.

I know we don't really have them, and the ones we do have with the potential to create, like Foden and Palmer aren't in form, but if you don't take them and it's a miserable grind, there's nowhere to turn.

Fortunately, it's not my job, but I want to be entertained as well as hopefully winning a few games.

Djed Spence to be player of the tournament ... bookmark it!
 

Korra said:
Djed Spence called up :eek:
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Mate he’s absolutely shite in a side that shite 🤣 as much as I think the likes of shaw hall etc are overrated calling Spence up ahead of players like taa is just mind blowing. Calling up Henderson ahead of taking someone like gibbs white as Henderson position has about two or three that are ahead of him. If we don’t do well in this tournament can see the media turning on tuchel pretty quickly.
 
We've got a serious lack of options in most positions TBF.

The squad is meh, but it was always going to be really.
 
Mackemansj1 said:
Mate he’s absolutely shite in a side that shite 🤣 as much as I think the likes of shaw hall etc are overrated calling Spence up ahead of players like taa is just mind blowing. Calling up Henderson ahead of taking someone like gibbs white as Henderson position has about two or three that are ahead of him. If we don’t do well in this tournament can see the media turning on tuchel pretty quickly.
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Agree about Henderson thats nuts
columbo said:
Really pissing me off about Henderson!! Why did they not just take him as back room team if he was important off field and leave space for another
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insane🤷‍♂️
 
Rocky77 said:
When you look back at 98 it was only contentious because it was Gazza. He was overweight and hadn't played well for a canny period
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I think much of this is a function of the general lack of options that most would consider world class. We seem to produce really good 8s and 10s these days, but beyond that we don't have many that would grace any stage. So any of the picks that Tuchel makes in other positions have drawbacks, outside of the likes of Kane and Pickford who have established themselves at international level. There's none of them who are truly convincing. As an example, we're talking about the choice between Maguire, Stones and Burn, while Ezri Konsa is written into the starting line-up in sharpie. He's decent, but hardly a centre half who makes you think 'world cup winner'. At least with Stones he's capable of excelling on the very biggest of stages.
 
Disappointing for Maguire, Alexander Arnold and Gibbs White

Get the question marks about Alexander Arnold defensively (against world class teams) but your picking a lad who has been playing in defence for a team that is fighting relegation ahead of him and has one of the worst defensive records in the league
 
Rocky77 said:
When you look back at 98 it was only contentious because it was Gazza. He was overweight and hadn't played well for a canny period
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I heard Hoddle on Danny Kelly's TalkSPORT 2 show giving a completely revisionist account of that process and decision. He was in good enough form and good enough fitness for that squad. Hoddle put Kenny G on in his hotel room and told Gazza he wasn't good enough. He is a scheister who robbed him of his swansong. Nobody else at the time thought he wasn't good enough or fit enough. He lit up Euro 96 only two years before.

The proof of the pudding is in the eating. Hoddle lost 2 out of 4, and of course they came home, and destroyed Gascoigne in the process. He never came back from that.

All the while, by the way, Hoddle was writing everything down and wearing a wire for material for the book that he published only a couple of months later, betraying every single one of them to sell copies. Smashing a lamp was a dream for his publisher. Even related Alan Shearer crying on the floor of the dressing room. Don't forget his blind superstitious beliefs, Eileen Drewery and omens and spiritual healing. And the reason he was eventually fired.

He's a horrible horrible man.
 
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the first 11 isn't far off the expected ones but the lack of depth is what's gonna cost us imo.

Champions League this season has properly highlighted how important technical players/difference makers are in KO comps and I'm seeing Madueke/Anthony Gordon as some of our attacking options :lol:
 
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