Players on international duty Nov '17 page 12

Hope it's just pep whispering in their ear to pull out of the squad. TBH if I was sterling I would use any excuse to withdraw after the ****s booed him off last time. They don't deserve him.
 
Could do with KDB, Silva x 2, Sergio, and Jesus withdrawing as well at the very least
There's time yet. Surely these friendlies should be used by all countries involved to field teams of untried players getting their first caps and leaving the senior players out to recover and rest for a congested period coming up.
 
Surely it makes more sense for the international bosses to give their star players as much rest as possible during the season to reduce the burnt out risk.
 
At least the Sergio only has to go to Russia for both their friendlies and the Brazilians only to France and London.
 
Don't think Sergio will get much game time neither will danilo and diniho hopefully Spain and Belgium will try other players in kdb and Silva positions think stones will play most minutes and walker and trippier will rotate unfortunately Jesus will play most minutes for Brazil as will Bernardo for Portugal sane won't get to many minutes but I'd imagine most players will play in first gear as only friendlies.
 
Surely it makes more sense for the international bosses to give their star players as much rest as possible during the season to reduce the burnt out risk.
I think a training camp would be much more beneficial firstly players would be less likely to pull out and they could work on tactics, secondly without the pressure of games at Wembley against Germany and Brazil that risk burnout and injury and the ire of premier league managers.
 
I think a training camp would be much more beneficial firstly players would be less likely to pull out and they could work on tactics, secondly without the pressure of games at Wembley against Germany and Brazil that risk burnout and injury and the ire of premier league managers.


FA = Greed, they have to pay for Wembley and high profile friendly's are the way to do it and fuck the players welfare, Brazil are no different hence the Japan game to follow, not sure if its still the case but didn't they sell the rights to their friendly games to some entertainment company a few years back to generate cash.
 
Rather enjoyed this fanciful foray from the Guardian’s Fiver email newsletter in to the current injury blight hitting the England squad.

‘IT’S THE END OF THE WORLD AS WE KNOW IT’

At the start of John Wyndham’s post-apocalyptic science fiction novel the Day of the Triffids the narrator, Bill Masen, lies in a city-centre hospital, his eyes bandaged. A combination of circumstances too complicated to report here leads to him climbing from his bed, removing his bandages and – following an urge familiar to many Fiver readers – heading fairly directly to the nearest public house, where he meets a blind man who informs him that more or less everyone else is suddenly also blind.

Sterling, Delph and Henderson ruled out of England friendlies at Wembley

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“‘S that bloody comet, thash what done it,” the man slurs (he is a little the worse for wear). “Green shootin’ shtarsh – an’ ow everyone’s blind as a bat. D’ju shee green shootin’ shtarsh?” Masen had not seen green shooting stars, because of all the bandages and stuff. “There you are. Proves it. You didn’t see ‘em: you aren’t blind. Everyone else saw ‘em, all’s blind’s bats.”

But how, Masen wonders, does the drunkard know that absolutely everybody is blind? The man instructs him simply to listen. “We stood side by side leaning on the bar of the dingy pub, and I listened,” Masen continues. “There was nothing to be heard – nothing but the rustle of a dirty newspaper blown down an empty street. Such a quietness held everything as cannot have been known in those parts for a thousand years and more.”

Masen had actually noticed this eerie phenomenon earlier, lying in his hospital bed being ignored by the nurses who weren’t there. “No wheels rumbled, no buses roared, no sound of a car of any kind, in fact, was to be heard,” he narrated. “No brakes, no horns, not even the clopping of the few rare horses that still occasionally passed. Nor, as there should be at such an hour, the composite tramp of work-bound feet. The more I listened, the queerer it seemed. There was not the cooing of a pigeon, not the chirp of a sparrow. Nothing but the humming of wires in the wind.”

At top-flight football training grounds across the country this morning a handful of miraculously able-bodied footballers experienced their own Masen moments. Where normally there is action there was stillness, where there is noise there was only silence. Not a soul was to be seen, not a whisper to be heard, because everyone had been struck down by a bizarre Wyndhamesque overnight knack.

Over at the FA’s Wembley HQ, the telephone started to ring. First it was Harry Kane, whose knee had given way, and Harry Winks, whose ankle had failed, the severity of both injuries becoming clear just hours after Dele Alli had started to struggle with debilitating hamstring-twang. Gareth Southgate hurriedly called up Jake Livermore, but still the calls kept coming. Fabian Delph began clutching his calf, while Raheem Sterling and Jordan Henderson were both blighted with back-to-back back-bother. The FA, scrabbling desperately for fit footballers, announced that “a further squad update will be issued in due course”.

Perhaps the hour that Wyndham dreamed of has now arrived. The timing cannot be simple coincidence: just as in his novel bright, colourful lights were seen in the night sky across Britain over the weekend, reaching an explosive pinnacle on Sunday 5 November. Across the nation millions of people congregated together to ooh and aah at their spellbinding magnificence. “Everybody’s out watching them,” Masen remembers a nurse telling him, “and sometimes it’s almost as light as day – only all the wrong colour. Every now and then there’s a big one so bright that it hurts to look at it. It’s a marvellous sight.” Ring a bell, firework fans? Then on 6 November Winks, Alli and Kane suddenly found they could scarcely walk, and footballers have been falling ever since. This may well be, The Fiver is sad to report, the end of the world.

Either that or England are playing some friendlies.
 
Delph is no idiot. He knows he has a chance of a league title and maybe more this season and he will more than play his part in what will almost certainly be the pinnacle of his career. Sod fucking that up for the sake of an England friendly. Chill out for two weeks Fabio! And I am sorry for slagging you off all summer. You have been great.
 

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