Match Day Thread Portugal v Spain

Carmine Galante. · Jun 9, 2025 at 4:21 PM

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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.
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Moving forward, Henderson or Wharton?

originallambrettaman · Jun 9, 2025 at 4:33 PM

Carmine Galante. said: ↑

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.
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Wharton's not actually available for these games, due to concussion, though I think he was only in the U21's squad anyway (which is a mistake).

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