You said it better than me with fewer words. I hate you. Not really, but I get the surreal award for mentioning two films in a rant about Sterling. But after his pace has gone it will still be a very large number of games before he is dropped. I can't believe Citeh can't find someone better.
Featuring a goal from 98-year-old Goran Pandev, that glaring miss by Werner, a very dodgy penalty and the late winner for Not Really Macedonia. Germany hit a new Löw.
He's this generation's Rooney - it doesn't matter how ineffective or uninterested he is when he plays, we're consistently gaslit into believing that the team would collapse without him
I don’t think there’s much wrong with him as a player, 9 goals and 5 assists this season in the PL off 25 games isn’t a bad return. I think it’s more that Southgate’s system with England has been a mess for a couple of years just now and it’s not suiting Sterling. For what it’s worth I’d rather see Rashford - Kane - Sancho as a front 3 but they’re not all available this time round. Sterling still has plenty to offer England I think, but not as a starter if they’re all fit IMO, unless he begins to contribute more goals again.
Be right back, checking if there's someone on Twitter who remembered we were linked with Elif Elmas a couple of years ago and thinks we'd have won the league if we signed him because he can score against Germany...
Criminal he had it in the first place. Thanks for somehow spectacularly ****ing up one of the best crops of young players we’ve had in a while.
Wouldn't actually be a bad call, if he'd accept it. Wasn't ready for Chelsea, but that's down to experience. Time will tell if he has the talent, of course.
Yeah I’d be in favour of this. He’s clearly got something about him as a manager (though the Chelsea job came too early for him this time round) and he’s got a wealth of experience at the top of the game to pass on. Plus he seems to work well with young players. I think it might suit him right now as international management is less tactical (less time to work with the players on the training ground etc.) so his shortcomings there might be less exposed than at a club, and he can focus on pulling them together as a group and motivating them, which I think he’d be good at.
As has been said, if the Dutch had a competent coach Bergwijn probably wouldn't be in the squad as they should have a front three of Depay - Weghorst - Berghuis Frank De Boer, meanwhile, wants Depay playing through the middle which leaves an opening for Bergwijn to get some minutes on the left while Weghorst sits on the bench wishing he took up that free trial at Ancestry
There's a few players in there that people will be looking to sign now, before their value becomes too inflated. Gravenberch is the obvious one, but Malen has already spent some time in England and I'm sure he'll be up there, too.