England Senior National Team General Discussion Thread

Good for you, every else does care about the UK.

 

Looking forward to the ESPN.uk Matt Le Tissier interview.

 

Huh? The UK is extremely draonian for a supposed free country, while the US is probably the freest place in the West. Pretending this isn't true isn't patriotic.

 

In some respects. Good luck trying to visit Cuba though.

 

America's a free country if you have the money to pay for it.

 

What does that mean?

 

It means if you have money in America you can pretty much do what you want.

 

The same US whose government restricts press access for publications which don't toe the line? The same US in which a TV show was taken off the air for making a joke the President didn't like? You are not wrong about the free speech situation in the UK, but the US is hardly a standard to aspire to.

 

can we get back to football?

 

Funny watching the Scots treating tonight like a massive thing and to us qualifying is 'yeah whatever '

 

Ah yeah but I'd like to see all the home nations there.

Gives me something to watch and support. I root for them in other games and obvs hope they get thrashed by us. I'm not the ABE but for the celts, just doesn't feel right etc.

 

San Marino lead Romania away

 

If Tuchel takes 2 players for each position as he’s hinted and - as I expect - 5 CMIDs and 5CBs (coz of heat and risk of injury/suspension) that means he has only 1 “wild card” to use between Foden, Palmer, Eze and more. #england World Cup squad analysis.https://t.co/VeumT0GrNV

— Rob Dorsett (@RobDorsettSky) November 18, 2025

https://www.skysports.com/football/...ne-whos-in-departure-lounge-whos-left-at-home

 

It's all guess work at this point but almost inevitably injuries will take out at least one or two of our options, more if we are unlucky. Add form into that and the decision probably won't look as tough as it does on paper.

 

The taffys always get lucky decisions

 

If all of Saka, Bowen, Madueke, Palmer, Rogers, Bellingham, Foden, Gordon, Eze and Rashford are fit and in form (which probably won't be the case), I'd personally be minded to cut Bowen and Foden, and take the other eight. But obviously it's very hard to call this far out.

 

Foden or Palmer is the call.

 

Every goal in qualifying.

 

Spain just condeded against Turkey now, can't match England's record then.

 

That could be the defining decision for Tuchel.

I dread to think how the media will react to either of those being left out particularly Foden. I suspect it make the coverage the last couple of days look all peace and love.

 

Im not really sure it would to be honest, I mean everyone can see it’s an area we are very strong in so some excellent players are probably going to miss out. It’s not like they are being left out for someone like Jake Livermore then there would be uproar.

 

Those two players are very popular with the media throigh. More so than Bellingham and Rashford (Partly For non playing reasons). There is a very noisy section of the media who will attack Tuchel for anything vaguely controversial.

I think more Fans would rather Palmer than Foden go to the World Cup.

 

Quite a bit "if". I don't think anyone expect him to take 5 CMs and 5 CBs.

I think the squad will look something like this:

Pickford
Henderson
Trafford

James
Livramento
Stones
Guehi
Konsa
Burn
Lewis-Skelly
Spence

Rice
Henderson
Wharton
Anderson
Bellingham
Palmer
Rogers

Gordon
Rashford
Eze

Saka
Madueke

Kane
Foden
[most in-form pure #9]

 

O'Reilly for Lewis-Skelly, perhaps Hall for Spence, otherwise correct.

 

I like it, prefer Scott to Palmer tho.