England World Cup Squad

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PLT said:
There was never any possibility of Maguire or Shaw being left out. They're comfortably among our best players in their position.

As a country we really could do to grow out of this obsession with being outraged at the England team. Year after year, there are always a few established players who it becomes popular to demand are dropped, and people always, without fail, want uncapped or barely capped players to come in and change it all up. Even now that we've been successful in getting to the latter stages of tournaments, people still constantly demand the whole thing is ripped up. It's unhealthy.
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You can’t really complain with any of the squad with the players available to pick from. We knew we had decent attacking options and pretty limited in defensive areas. These same players did get us to a final 18 months ago so they can’t be that bad, favourable draws or not.

Tomori is the most obvious fashionable choice atm, but whenever I’ve seen him for Milan (admittedly UCL games) he’s looked suspect defensively.
 
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Not too many surprises. Phillips is a bit of a risk but since Rice is the only other holding midfielder it makes sense to take him. However he should only be a backup to Rice. I never want to see us with two technically limited defensive minded players making up a midfield 3 again. It should be Rice, Bellingham, Foden as the 3. Foden wasted out wide for me.
The second we face anyone with any quality Southgate will go pragmatic and revert to two holding mids though. Always busy thinking about how we can shut the opposition out rather than have the players on the pitch to control the game in the first place. Then again he’s got to a World Cup semi and a euros final so what do I know?
 
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Brucebones said:
My mate’s a season ticket holder at Man Utd, said Maguire has come back playing probably the best he’s seen for a while.
Another mate is a West Ham fan & he says Bowen’s been ****, the fans blame it on the fact he’s shagging Danny Dyer’s daughter Dani, yeah, he’s shagging Dani Dyer.
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Shagging Danny Dyer?...I don't know what Jarrod sees in him.
 
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Howdentiger2 said:
Not really sure he should be in the squad in any position tbf
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Watched the Man City game last night and thought he looked impressive. He clearly doesn’t fit in there but there’s no doubt he’s one of our better attackers and offers genuine ability to take a full back on. Not sure who else would go in his place?
 
Drew said:
Dier hasn’t been woeful for a while, he’s been doing alright in a decent Spurs team. But my point stands, especially for this World Cup with not much time to prepare, you need players who can function as a team, not players who haven’t played together.



Toney, betting allegations.
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Beg to differ on Dier. If you compare him to Sanchez, Royale etc then yes ok, but Conte must be pulling his transplanted hair out over the Spurs defenders he has to work with. Dier IMHO has been suspect for a while. I like Dier but he's out of form.
 
PLT said:
There was never any possibility of Maguire or Shaw being left out. They're comfortably among our best players in their position.

As a country we really could do to grow out of this obsession with being outraged at the England team. Year after year, there are always a few established players who it becomes popular to demand are dropped, and people always, without fail, want uncapped or barely capped players to come in and change it all up. Even now that we've been successful in getting to the latter stages of tournaments, people still constantly demand the whole thing is ripped up. It's unhealthy.
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I think a lot of club opinion mentality seeps into the national game.

Asking a club manager to switch or drop a player is a very different thing to an international manager, as at least the club players get chance to play/train with each other regularly.

Which means that I fully agree with your point that we need to learn to accept more of what we have, rather than saying ‘this player is playing well for a lesser team, he MUST GO’
 
Drew said:
I think a lot of club opinion mentality seeps into the national game.

Asking a club manager to switch or drop a player is a very different thing to an international manager, as at least the club players get chance to play/train with each other regularly.

Which means that I fully agree with your point that we need to learn to accept more of what we have, rather than saying ‘this player is playing well for a lesser team, he MUST GO’
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Do what Ramsey did and pick players who could play in the system he wanted rather than pick players and then try and find a system that suits them.
 
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