England Senior National Team General Discussion Thread

Colwill will struggle to be fit for the WC.

 

I wonder if Shaw will get in the squad? Covers 2 positions looks to have got his fitness back.

 

Or he will be fit by the end of March. At this point no one knows.

 

Mainoo coming on

 

Thats not a lot time to get fully fit from a bad injury.

 

Sorry to any wolves fans in here but this is such a beautiful thing, watching them collapse.
Years of buying cheap, foreign crap and not giving any opportunities to young English players is finally catching up with them, and I’m here for it.
Hopefully they go down

 

That'd be 7 months post-injury which is really short for a full ACL rupture. Re-rupture rates are still around 10% around nine months after an ACL injury but drop to around 2% after 12 months. Most athletes don't report feelings back to normal until around 18-24 months post-injury.

I'm not expert on these issues but given his age we'd have to ask whether it's worth it. He's highly unlikely to be near his old level by the summer time.

 

Hopefully he's back in March then he's got a few months to get some fitness

 

I am a big fan of Colwill but would there really be any point rushing back a reserve center back? Guehi, Stones, and Konsa are clearly by far and away the first 3 choices.
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We don't particularly lack for centre back depth beyond them either. While lacking top quality there's a good amount of centre backs playing at the very top levels jostling for position.

 

Ivan Toney is the player who was arrested at the weekend. https://www.thesun.co.uk/sport/37573601/ivan-toney-headbutt-arrest-london-bar-brawl/

 

It's June 17 and Mason Mount is starting under Thomas Tuchel in England's first game at the World Cup and everyone is absolutely fine with it...https://t.co/7cKXoMfUKY

— Football365 (@F365) December 8, 2025

https://www.football365.com/news/op...e-keane-bellingham-starting-england-world-cup

 

PL this week.

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Konsa, Rogers and Watkins started for Aston Vila. Sancho was used from the bench. Hemmings were unused.

White, Rice, Saka and Eze started for Arsenal. Madueke and Lewis-Skelly were used from the bench. Salmon and Nwaneri were unused.

Spence and Gray started for Spurs. There were no English players on the bench.

Henderson started for Brentford. Lewis-Potter was used from the bench. Donovan was unused.

Ramsdale, Livramento, Burn, Willock, Ramsey and Gordon started for Newcastle. Miley and Hall were used from the bench. Ruddy, Barnes and Murphy were unused.

Walker started for Burnley. Anthony, Edwards, Laurent and Worrall were used from the bench.

O’Reilly and Foden started for Manchester City. Lewis was used from the bench. Trafford was unused.

There were no English starters for Sunderland. Mundle and O’Nien were used from the bench. Patterson, Neil and Rigg were unused.

Pickford, Keane, Tarkowski, Garner, Dewsbury-Hall and Grealish started for Everton. McNeil and Dibling were used from the bench. Campbell was unused.

Anderson, Hutchinson and Gibbs-White started for Nottingham Forest. Hudson-Odoi, Yates and Abbott were used from the bench. McAtee was unused.

Smith, Scott and Tavernier started for Bournemouth. Hill was used from the bench. Dennis was unused.

Chalobah, James, Palmer and Delap started for Chelsea. Acheampong and Gittens were unused.

Bogle and Calvert-Lewin started for Leeds. Justin, Byram and Harrison were unused.

Jones started for Liverpool. Gomez was used from the bench. Ngumoha was unused.

Dunk and Welbeck started for Brighton. Hinshelwood was used from the bench. Steele, Knight and Oriola were unused.

Kiliman and Bowen started for West Ham. Wilson. Potts and Mayers was used from the bench. Walker-Peters was unused.

Smith Rowe started for Fulham. King was used from the bench.

Henderson, Guehi. Clyne, Wharton, Mitchell and Nketiah started for Crystal Palace. Matthews, Hughes and Esse were unused.

Johnstone started for Wolves. Mane was used from the bench.

Heaven, Shaw and Mount started for Manchester United. Mainoo was used from the bench. Lacey was unused.

Dewsbury-Hall, Foden, Gordon (Pen), Calvert-Lewin (Pen), Bowen, Nketiah, Guehi and Mount scored

Foden, Wilson and Wharton got assists.

 

📹🚨| Mason Mount vs Wolves (8th December 2025) #MUFC https://t.co/5lY5e4ZdJA

— UtdJoshua (@UtdJoshua03) December 8, 2025

I'd probably consider him for the squad. Not an easy route back for him though since Tuchel seems to want to play with a 10 the vast majority of the time. I think he's a good box-to-box alternative to Rice if we have issues attacking with Bellingham and Rice together but you'd have to alter the system a bit.

 

No reason why Mount couldn't be a left wing option tbf. He has the speed, and instinct and willingness to make runs in behind.

 

If Tuchel can reward ex-Chelsea players like RLC and Chalobah with call ups, then it really would be no surprise to see him turn to Mount at some stage. Especially after Mount's starring role in their CL winning season.

 

Yeah, l think the wise thing is to forget about Levi Colwill for the WC and let him build up his fitness in readiness for the next campaign.

It's just a damned shame that the minute we produce two quality young centre backs in Colwill and Jarrad Branthwaite, they both get bad injuries on the eve of an important WC season. At least Branthwaite is due back at the end of Jan.

 

Bayern Munich are hoping to use Harry Kane to lure Marc Guehi to the club - The Mirror

Chelsea are not set to accelerate Emmanuel Emegha's arrival from Strasbourg this January in light of Liam Delap's new injury - Daily Mail

 

Even then Tuchel could well prefer Burn to Branthwaite.

 

I like Branthwaite, but with the injuries and style of teams he's played in (for the majority of his PL career) particularly under Dyche last season, think its pretty fair for Burn to be above him in the pecking order at this stage.

 

Its a big if. But if he continues to play like that he 100% gets in the squad. Btw the Midfield/no10 options we have now are getting silly. We have 4 or 5 players who are fighting for 10no shirt. We have 2 of the best 6s in the league and one of the few players thats managed to stand toe to toe with Rice was James.

 

When it gets like this we have to start thinking about diversity of skill sets rather than solely thinking about who is the 1st, 2nd, 3rd best option etc. The quality of the player matters the most of course but we have the midfield options to deploy pretty much any game plan if we pick the right options. That adaptability is important imo.

 

I’m worried that Declan Rice’s need to miss training sessions etc will see Jordan Henderson get plenty of minutes at the World Cup.

 

Yes no square pegs in round holes, no matter how good those square pegs are.

 

I doubt tuchel would use Henderson as cover for Rice for 90 minutes. It would probably be either Anderson or Bellingham.