England Senior National Team General Discussion Thread

He could do what Lewis-skelly does. Play as in inverted fullback/midfielder

 

England forward Marcus Rashford, 28, could return to Manchester United after his loan spell at Barcelona, who are interested in Chelsea and Portugal winger Pedro Neto, 26, as an alternative. (Mundo Deportivo - in Spanish)

Rashford wants to stay at Barca, but talks have hit a stumbling block and sporting director Deco has proposed a second season-long loan to allow the Spanish side more time to pay off an option-to-buy fee to Manchester United. (Talksport)

Aston Villa are preparing for transfer interest in Morgan Rogers, Youri Tielemans and Emiliano Martinez this summer and could be forced to sell - Daily Mail.

Arsenal have approached Declan Rice over a new long-term contract - BBC.

Manchester United will consider offers for Joshua Zirkzee, Andre Onana, Mason Mount, Rasmus Hojlund and Manuel Ugarte this summer - The Sun.

 

He's a more complete player than Rice.

 

coventry vs southampton has been better than any PL match this season.

 

If anyone is looking for an antidote to the tedious, sterile anti-football being served up in the PL this season then seriously, do yourself a favour, and go and reconnect with the beautiful game at your nearest lower league side.

 

Stuart Pearce has clear for Luke Shaw to be recalled. https://www.thesun.co.uk/sport/38511703/man-utd-luke-shaw-england-world-cup-henderson/

However Tuchel has not spoken to Luke Shaw recently according to the Daily Mail and also has reservations about Myles Lewis-Skelly and Djed Spence.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/f...is-hall-england-newcastle-slough-maldini.html

 

Quansah was really poor on that Kane disallowed goal. There's definitely a player in there but he's still too soft to be an elite defender for me. You saw it when Delap bullied him at the start of last season and it's been a theme since. I do find it odd that Tuchel likes him so much.

 

Livramento starts for Newcastle alongside Ramsdale, Hall, Willock, Ramsey, Murphy, Gordon and Barnes. Burn dropped to the bench.

Rice, Madueke, Eze and Saka all starting for Arsenal.

Chalobah, James and Palmer all starting for Chelsea.

🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 Thomas Tuchel expected to be here at Stamford Bridge. Lewis Hall, Tino Livramento & Anthony Gordon starting for Newcastle. Cole Palmer & Reece James for Chelsea. https://t.co/a5QoOmwxBg

— Craig Hope (@CraigHope_DM) March 14, 2026

 

I haven’t even bothered, Ireland v Scotland was very entertaining in the rugby.

 

Palmer is looking sharp

 

Garnacho is such an horrendously bad player

 

Gordon scores

 

McNeill left Rice in the dust with one simple feint... haven´t been impressed by Rice for numerous matches in a row now.

 

Gordon might be the best backup for Kane

 

I wonder if hes carrying an injury.

 

Yeah thought the same, his all-round game looks so much slower compared to earlier in the season and with Arteta and injured players you never know...

 

We're bound to lose one kep player just before the World Cup.. who does everyone think it will be? I'm going for Bellingham

 

At least we'd have cover for Bellingham.

 

I dont have any words… pic.twitter.com/prmV7ncLvB

— Julien Laurens (@LaurensJulien) March 14, 2026

The ref giving the Chelsea team talk

 

Still baffles me to this day when they sold a superior player in madueke and brought in garnacho

 

I think the model is to see players like stocks, if they can flip them for profit then that’s a win.

 

The players we absolutely can't do without are pickford Guehi rice Anderson kane saka

 

Yeah was listening to a journalist or ex pro ( can’t remember who )the other day who was basically saying Arteta is running some of his players into the ground, mentioned Rice, Zubemendi and Timber specifically.

 

Gordon has pretty much become a striker for Newcastle recently, by all accounts it seems the fans rate his performance much more there than out wide this season. Interesting to see how that develops going forward.