England Senior Team General Discussion Thread

perhaps haha. i wouldn't care though if it worked. trying to play out the back and have a passing game isn't going to work with the players we currently have. maybe in a few years it might

 

Alli in that formation with those players juest won't work consistently - he thrives with Eriksen at Spurs, but we don't have anyone playing a similar role. If Soutgate insists on Dier/Henderson/Livermore then a different type of player to Alli needs to be in that position, especially if you have direct players like Rashford/Chamberlain out wide.

 

Barkley is out until the new year I think.

 

Although...

Ross Barkley is IN Everton's Europa League squadhttps://t.co/jy5dgr4TQl pic.twitter.com/ZQp2RuwrI9

— Everton FC News (@LivEchoEFC) September 5, 2017

 

That's probably for HG reasons. I think he'll be back November/December. Doesn't seem like Everton have any intention of playing him though and he might not get a move till the end of Jan.

 

It could be meaningless, I grant you, but it tells you that they want to keep the option of playing him between now and early December. Wouldn't be much point if they were sure he'd be out until the new year.

 

fulfilling their HG quota in the squad allows them to use the full 25 doesn't it? May be related to that. Similar for United registering Wilson and why Spurs couldn't register Janssen.

 

I mean, yes, but having a 25-man squad with one player who's injured for the duration is exactly the same as having a 24-man squad. It only helps them at all if he might be available.

 

Ali works in spurs system under a great manager

I don't think gaweth can translate the same level of freedom and movement to him for England

 

You're limited in how many fresh players you can register for the knock out stages, or at least you were. A few seasons back I remember Liverpool didn't register Flanagan for Europe because he was injured despite having no one else for club trained home grown slots then when the knock out stage rolled round and he was fit they couldn't register him because they registered a January signing instead.

 

Huh, you're right. From this season's competition regulations:

"43.01 For all matches from the start of the round of 32, a club may register a maximum of three new eligible players for the remaining matches in the current competition."

I didn't know that. Then I guess you can't read anything at all into Barkley's registration.

 

Let see if Dele Alli can perform in the Champions League before we blame Southgate.

 

Quick summary of the Nations League from UEFA here. The stratification of the teams for the first "season" takes place after next month's Euro qualifiers, and we look a very safe bet to be in one of the groups of League A. Wales might sneak in too, but there are a lot of teams that could catch them.

I'm quite looking forward to this tournament actually. I'm sure there will be things to criticise, not least that it'll hand Euro qualification spots to some fairly crappy teams at the expense of much better ones, but international friendlies can get a bit listless at times and perhaps this'll inject some urgency and meaning, hopefully without disincentivising a bit of experimentation.

 

As an aside, another idle thought: if Southgate had a preference for Pickford over Butland, he might have chosen to leave Hart in until Pickford was back rather than put Butland in for two games and then drop him immediately. Not to suggest that that's necessarily what happened - he could genuinely believe that Hart is the best option, or he might just not have wanted to make a dramatic change right before our biggest qualifier - but it's another possibility.

 

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what kind of B.S is this?
banning him for life !!

 

All this Rooney drama shows why its good we are done with the guy...

I wish I could figure out why Coleen stays with Wayne Rooney after he's cheated on her numerous times. pic.twitter.com/co1k4ze3aV

— Justin Thyme (@JustinThyme45) September 7, 2017

 

Also got a year ban from Malta.

Quite harsh on both ends.

 

why is it harsh?

 

Because of how comparatively trivial the offence was, and because he's a 16 year old kid.

 

I think the year-long ban from the Maltese end is maybe a bit unnecessary but hardly the end of the world.

A lifetime ban from the FA, if that's truly what he's been given, is just insane. An adolescent ran onto the pitch for a joke - big wow - and he'll still bear the consequences when he's 80? Murderers will get a second chance before he does. It just seems like a ridiculous attempt to look tough.

 

Imagine if it was any other country? However, I doubt he would've been travelling to Malta within a year's time anyway.

 

Palace have hired Woy apparently...
insanity !

 

He can keep them up, this is the kind of job he's been good at.

 

John Stones vs Feyenoord (67')

96/96 passes completed
5 clearances
4 aerials won
4 blocks
2 shots
2 goals
1 interception
0 fouls

Wow. 😲 pic.twitter.com/PQwgtbWPlv

— SCOUTED (@scoutedftbl) September 13, 2017

 

stones was brilliant tonight. hes been playing well for a while now.