our midfield debate truly is shocking, Gerrard is basically a star player, then you'v got lampard, often doesnt have as much to his game but the ball ends up in the back of the net anyway so he cant be faulted. Hargreaves looks like he will grow as a player at Utd as hes looked pretty encouraging from what I have seen, and Carrick has looked ok from what iv seen this season too. Barry is decent but he often doesnt look as good as the others, although hes very worthy of a place in the squad.
I dont think we can really comment on the midfield v much atm, because Sven didnt utilise our midfield assets v well, and Mclaren is a clown.
Capello can deal with egos etc, and hes got his own style, he might actually be able to get Gerrard and Lampard playing together, but if not it really depends on what type of opponent and formation are being played on the choices, capello tactically looks at everything and will change squads and formations depending on opponents, luckily Gerrard, Lampard, Barry, Carrick, Hargreaves all offer something different from each other, they all have different strengths, styles of play etc. They will all have their own roles.
As for captain, ferdinand would be a strong contender if he cut the nonsense, but hes a cocky kinda guy and that pays off in his game, but i dont think itll be him.
As said earlier theres a lot of bad feelings towards terry, i think Capello may have picked up on them already, he likes being the big swinging **** so he wont take any rubbish, so that puts doubt in my mind over Terry, plus hes having injury setbacks.
Owen - no, we dont want a part time captain, he will have been replaced by 2010, we'v got Agbonlahor, Walcott, Derbyshire and others fighting for his place by then, though he will be in the squad in the meantime, chances are captaincy wont permanently go to someone who will probably not be well off in the pecking order by WC.
Lampard - not sure if he would handle it all that great, may thrive on it, doesnt strike me as the type whos that bothered about the responsibility for his country, think he thinks hes already got it all. He does tbh.
Gerrard - Much like most of england squad has been poor, captaincy didnt up his game when he got it in previous games, generally was bad feeling in the team though, low moral etc. Plus he wasnt really handed the responsibility, it was lent to him from Terry.
Rooney - seems a lot more mature now, workrate could be inspiring, much like Gerrards, cant really see it though, maybes if an older squad member was given it, and retired it closer to world cup for him, not really sure.
). It was only the last 4 or so games (2 he played with an injury) where he was playing particularly poor and thats fresh in people's minds.
