England squad announcement

robfosters · 16 Mar 2023 at 18:49

Southgate really must hate Ben White.

Imagine saying with a straight face that Dier, Maguire, Walker, Trippier, James and TAA are all elite options ahead of him.

omnomnom · 16 Mar 2023 at 18:57

robfosters said:
Southgate really must hate Ben White.

Imagine saying with a straight face that Dier, Maguire, Walker, Trippier, James and TAA are all elite options ahead of him.

White hasnt played cb for Arsenal this season so the players you mean are Trippier, James and Walker. He's gone for his faves basically.

robfosters · 16 Mar 2023 at 19:07

omnomnom said:
White hasnt played cb for Arsenal this season so the players you mean are Trippier, James and Walker. He's gone for his faves basically.

They might be his faves, but from a tactical POV, Saka will very likely be RW and those two together have probably been the best RW combo by quite a way in the league this season.

Kelt · 17 Mar 2023 at 10:14

You can't blame Southgape for picking the players that have won him everything.

ThundyCat · 17 Mar 2023 at 13:14

RobDogDog said:
The non-playing Phillips over Ward-Prowse makes me sad.

Phillips has played 54 minutes of football, baffling as to how he made the squad.

robfosters · 17 Mar 2023 at 13:19

Kelt said:
You can't blame Southgape for picking the players that have won him everything.

Sarcasm detected

McBain · 17 Mar 2023 at 13:20

Southgate gonna Southgate. If the FA had anything about them he’d have been potted after another WC failure.

mp260767 · 18 Mar 2023 at 09:30

just seen mention that Southgate says he may need to start selecting from "the Championship or elsewhere" in future because of what he claims is the decreasing number of English players in the Premier League, how does that make sense when he won't select players from the prem league ?

JamesH85 · 18 Mar 2023 at 10:59

mp260767 said:
just seen mention that Southgate says he may need to start selecting from "the Championship or elsewhere" in future because of what he claims is the decreasing number of English players in the Premier League, how does that make sense when he won't select players from the prem league ?

Because he's terrible. Funny how he can even make that statement, when some English players play every week in the prem, yet he will select players who have 54 minutes under their belt. The sooner he's gone thr better. Another generation going to be potentially wasted. Who believes we will win a tournament with your squad selected on loyalty and past performances?

Pigeon_Killer · 18 Mar 2023 at 11:09

Nothing more than Fraudgate living up to his name.

England are dead to me until he ***** off. He's ruining a very talented generation of footballers.

Reuben klang · 18 Mar 2023 at 11:37

McBain said:
Southgate gonna Southgate. If the FA had anything about them he’d have been potted after another WC failure.

Harsh calling that a failure, knocked out by a brilliant France side.

McBain · 18 Mar 2023 at 13:24

Reuben klang said:
Harsh calling that a failure, knocked out by a brilliant France side.

QF is a failure whichever way you look at it.

Shamikebab · 18 Mar 2023 at 13:41

McBain said:
QF is a failure whichever way you look at it.

Blimey England have done a lot of failing in history then

C Kent · 18 Mar 2023 at 14:03

Shamikebab said:
Blimey England have done a lot of failing in history then

Correct

Shamikebab · 18 Mar 2023 at 14:04

Perhaps some people need to lower their expectations. Losing in the QF to a team that 1 penalty away from winning the whole thing is by no means a failure.

McBain · 18 Mar 2023 at 19:26

Shamikebab said:
Blimey England have done a lot of failing in history then

No doubt.

Massive failures all round.

HangTime · 18 Mar 2023 at 22:39

Stage of elimination whilst ultimately what goes in the history books is a bit of a flaky judge of performance, England made the WC semis in 2018 but it was actually a pretty poor performance overall. No team lost more games than England in that tournament, and they didn't really beat anyone of note (Tunisia, Panama, Sweden). I thought England were better in WC2022 than WC2018 despite getting knocked out earlier.

Reuben klang · 19 Mar 2023 at 10:40

McBain said:
QF is a failure whichever way you look at it.

Going to have to disagree with that. It's a knock out competition, based on the draw.

Got knocked out by a far superior team. It just so happened that it was in the QF. Would it really have made that much difference if they got what would have been effectively a by and got knocked out by France in the SF? England aren't a top 4 side in the world. QF is about right if you look at it as a top 8 side.

England were ranked 5th but we know that the rankings are a load of nonsense i.e Belgium being 1st/2nd. I don't recall England being favourites either. Brazil/Argentina were the favourites not odds on though and followed by France.

McBain · 19 Mar 2023 at 12:08

Reuben klang said:
Going to have to disagree with that. It's a knock out competition, based on the draw.

Got knocked out by a far superior team. It just so happened that it was in the QF. Would it really have made that much difference if they got what would have been effectively a by and got knocked out by France in the SF? England aren't a top 4 side in the world. QF is about right if you look at it as a top 8 side.

England were ranked 5th but we know that the rankings are a load of nonsense i.e Belgium being 1st/2nd. I don't recall England being favourites either. Brazil/Argentina were the favourites not odds on though and followed by France.

That's fine, disagree. The bottom line is if you don't win the competition you're a loser.

Southgate is a serial loser.

robfosters · 24 May 2023 at 14:30

England squad for next two qualifiers announced.

The big question is, looking at the quality of the forwards, Is Sterling finished at international level?

Goalkeepers: Sam Johnstone (Crystal Palace), Jordan Pickford (Everton), Aaron Ramsdale (Arsenal)

Defenders: Trent Alexander-Arnold (Liverpool), Lewis Dunk (Brighton & Hove Albion), Marc Guehi (Crystal Palace), Harry Maguire (Manchester United), Tyrone Mings (Aston Villa), Luke Shaw (Manchester United), John Stones (Manchester City), Kieran Trippier (Newcastle United), Kyle Walker (Manchester City)

Midfielders: Jude Bellingham (Borussia Dortmund), Eberechi Eze (Crystal Palace), Conor Gallagher (Chelsea), Jordan Henderson (Liverpool), Kalvin Phillips (Manchester City), Declan Rice (West Ham United)

Forwards: Phil Foden (Manchester City), Jack Grealish (Manchester City), Harry Kane (Tottenham Hotspur), James Maddison (Leicester City), Marcus Rashford (Manchester United), Bukayo Saka (Arsenal), Callum Wilson (Newcastle United)