England Senior National Team General Discussion Thread

I was being tongue in cheek

 

Whenever declan rice ups the tempo arsenal play better

 

It’s inevitable wolves will go and buy 5 or 6 Portuguese players in January to try and avoid relegation.
Heaven forbid they play a few English players. Their best player has been the keeper tonight and he’s the only English one.

 

Wolves haven’t bought a Portuguese player for about 18 months btw.

 

As a Boro fan, I thank Wolves, you truly gave us an early Christmas by poaching Edwards and leading us to a much better coach.

 

On a more serious note though, this particular Arsenal team winning a league would be dreadful for the English game.

Everything I hate about modern football. Dull, robotic, data driven and prescriptive. A team not allowed to express themselves, a team with no licence to respond to and shape games based on the rhythm of it at any given time, a joyless team with no mavericks, artistry or flair.

It’s very very sad and a stain on the English game that this team is having so much more success(relative) than the ones like 07-08 or the teams with players like Wilshere, Ozil, A Sanchez etc.

 

It’s genuinely crazy how bad Arsenal’s recruitment of attacking players is. Woltemade and Ekitike show that there were clearly very good strikers out there, yet they completely overlooked them and signed a Championship player.

 

I wasn't really claiming him as anything. It was just something I'd noticed. All we need now is Vardy to do it in Italy.

 

Ekitike looks a player.

 

They must be getting the itch then. Portugal FC

 

Yeah it's hard to disagree. I don't think City winning it would be an ideal outcome either because I think their dominance of the league has its own problems, but we know just how copycat the league is these days and I don't want Arsenal having any more influence on English football than they already have had.

Another big issue is Dowman coming through under this. He'd still likely end up a very good player either way, but a player with so much natural flair playing in such a micromanaged environment is inevitably going to have developmental costs.

 

I doubt it'll happen but Villa winning would have stat merchants on suicide watch.

 

Smith Rowe's come into a bit of form.

 

They'll bottle it.

 

What pisses me off is he rotates the team too much. Madueke has his best game in ages midweek then doesn't even get on tonight. He gives eze about 60 minutes brings him off. How can players get their form going? He's trying to keep the squad happy too much

 

I think this is one thing we can't moan about. We all went mad at him for running Rice and Saka into the ground so we can't now complain that he rotates them!

 

I get it with rice and saka but madueke misses games then gets brought back in then is dropped again. He needs a run in the team. He could do a job on the left.

 

Rice and Saka definitely need a rest. They've been playing nearl

Its confirming what we've all known for a while; that the Prem and football in general, is becoming sterile.

 

That's why I prefer international football. Club football bores the eff out of me

 

The Champions League is a farmers league and Arsenal Football Club are a pub team

 

Yep, and one more thing I hate about them is their complete aversion to attacking the centre of the pitch. U-shaped football all the time.

 

Mendes connection with them is much reduced which is actually probably the biggest cause of decline (and only reason for their rise). The attempts to buy from abroad since then have been almost entirely a disaster, I wouldn't be surprised if getting edwards will also shift their player recruitment policy.

They're so far behind that there's pretty much no saving them so it'll be curious what they do in January.

 

Manchester City are prepared to sell Brazil forward Savinho, 21, England full-back Rico Lewis, 21, and Norway midfielder Oscar Bobb, 22, in January to fund their transfer window. (Football Insider)

Newcastle will face competition from Tottenham and Aston Villa to sign Manchester City's 23-year-old English goalkeeper James Trafford. (Football Insider), external

England forward Raheem Sterling, 31, might be offered a route out of Chelsea with Leeds and Crystal Palace keen. (Caught Offside)

 

I know you copy and paste these from somewhere else, but the sources are awful! I’ve literally never heard of the writers, fair enough they are just doing there job, but the probably have as much inside information as a bloke at the bar in your local Wetherspoon’s.

 

All 3 come from the BBC round up. The newspapers must be short of stories so they go to the more unkown sources to fill it up.