I had hope when Tuchal criticised Southgate for not being ballsy enough…… and then he picked Henderson.
The commentators hit the nail on the head . If you don't take the Nations League serious you don't get to play the best teams . Since going out of the World cup 2022 England will have only played 1 top team between then and next year's world cup finals in USA . Then it may well be the knockout stages til they do
Adam Wharton has come back from injury and has carried on from where he left off. An absolute talent with bags of potential but eh oh, let’s pick old codger Hendo instead. Shocking selection and one that should be ringing the alarm bells loud and clear.
Tuchel has said about all the stuff Henderson does at training camp, essentially a father figure who is very good at ensuring the squad gels etc. That's all well and good, but it doesn't mean you actually play him in CM when you could be helping an up-and-comer like Mainoo or Wharton get some game time under their belts He's 35 next week, so will be 36 by the time the World Cup comes round.
The 34th trophy of Ronaldos career. 138th? international goal. Aged 40. I think he has earned a bit of "me,me,me" time.
Harsh. Coyle is 29 and the club captain. We also don't get to pick from a pool of very good RBs, we just get to pick from the 2 we have.
But how many managers have to keep picking him before we start to accept that maybe they know something? I'm not a fan of the Tuchel appointment at all, but he was hailed as the anti-Southgate candidate. Supposedly it was all a Gareth thing; picking the likes of Henderson, playing a right footer at left back, and at times failing to create enough. People really didn't want to hear that there might be good reasons for his selections or that he wasn't asking them to be laboured in attack. No, Southgate was the problem and the sole reason for it and Tuchel would come in and put an end to it. Yet now he's getting all the same criticisms. Surely at some point we have to ask whether it really is as simple as binning off Henderson, always putting people in 'correct' positions and telling them to go and attack, or if it is that simple, why successive managers don't do it.
I don't like Reece James playing for England at all, not at right back and certainly not at left back, hopefully we'll see Lewis-Skelly there against Senegal. Regardless of what any of us think of Henderson's ability, he'll be 36 at the World Cup and I don't see any point in continuing to play him in the build up.
