England Squad - Euro 2024

[Blue Smarties]

Do you even watch England games?

Trippier has been playing LB for England regularly for 5 years now, including Euro 2020 up to the semi-finals.

Do you watch football in general? Ask any Newcastle fan on their opinion of Trippier. He’s gone to the dogs.

 

[Nellies left peg]

From what I’ve seen of James Trafford this season I wouldn’t have him anywhere near the squad he’s been poor for Burnley this year and to be replaced by Muric says so

 

[Crooked_rain]

Phil in central areas...Gareth might just have got it!

Really? he basically said Bellingham will be the 10.

He justified Phil starting on the left saying he can drift inside, but we know he isn't as effective doing that.

It's simple, start him as a 10 if you want the best out of him. He's the most talented English player.

 

[edinburgh123]

No Rico Lewis as expected. Played once, man of the match and then Southgate forgets about him and like a fucking moth gets drawn to the light of the latest United (Mainoo) player to appear from nowhere and manage to make it into their 'excellent team'. Probably because Lewis isnt a regular at City. Realistically Ederson would get in Uniteds midfield, never mind Lewis

 

[madloaf]

Midfield looks light. Ok so they're counting the number 10 types as forwards.

But really only Rice with any proven international experience there.

Keeper/defence is ok. Pickford plus Stones and Maguire is an established core that does pretty well in international football.

And lots of attacking options.

Midfield is bloody awful. Mainoo looks lightweight as fuck almost every time i watch them - jones & gallagher are bang average at best - trent darby isn't a midfielder - leaving a kid with no experience and Rice. Urgh.

 

[super_city_si]

Makes sense imo. All this excited talk of Rice, Bellingham and Foden starting in midfield is exactly why England couldn't win a major tournament with Gerrard and Lampard in midfield. Rice is a box-to-box, Bellingham is a false nine, Foden sort of plays in the channels. You can't have them all playing when there's nobody there stitching it together. Arteta understands that to get the best out of Rice you need someone like Jorginho or Partey there as a workhorse. France understood it in 98 when they had Deschamps and Petit carrying the load for Zidane. Ordinarily it would have been Phillips but considering he's a broken man now I was half expecting it to be Henderson. Jones might fit the bill. Could also do worse than having Conor Gallagher or Alexander-Arnold there as well.

Pickford
Walker, Stones, Maguire, Shaw
Gallagher/TAA, Rice
Saka/Palmer, Bellingham, Foden
Kane

Think there's a lot going for that team.

Agree with a lot of that but Gallagher and TAA should be nowhere near a midfield spot. I’d prefer Mainoo before them. Gallagher was a disaster in the friendlies. He can’t play football. TAA glory balls it to the opposition all the time.

If Rice needs a ‘water carrier’ then a bit of blue tint but Lewis is ideal. Nothing fancy. Links the play and keeps it moving. That’s why I prefer Mainoo too.

 

[Nellies left peg]

Waistcoat for the rags. The twat hasn’t a clue

 

[balotelli's back pocket]

If Shaw isn't fit, it'll be Trippier and Gomez as the left back options. That'll definitely hurt Phil if Southgate does play him out on the left.

 

[dadnlad]

The daft **** hasn’t picked a fit left back, or player who can reasonably fill in there.

Been watching city too much

 

[domalino]

Do you watch football in general? Ask any Newcastle fan on their opinion of Trippier. He’s gone to the dogs.

So first he didn’t pick a LB, and now that’s turned out to be bollocks the problem is just you don’t rate the LB…


I watch enough to know his issue was playing through injury, not suddenly turning to shit for no reason after 5+ years as a great player.

 

[Blue Smarties]

Midfield is bloody awful. Mainoo looks lightweight as fuck almost every time i watch them - jones & gallagher are bang average at best - trent darby isn't a midfielder - leaving a kid with no experience and Rice. Urgh.

Mainoo plays with cement in his boots. Decent on the ball, but are so many players these days - including our goalkeeper. Too slow tracking a man.

 

[Crooked_rain]

Agree with a lot of that but Gallagher and TAA should be nowhere near a midfield spot. I’d prefer Mainoo before them. Gallagher was a disaster in the friendlies. He can’t play football. TAA glory balls it to the opposition all the time.

Mainoo is part of the reason teams just stroll through the rag midfield. He has no sense or awareness of his positioning on the pitch.

I'd rather Gallagher out of the two. I don't rate him that highly but he's certainly got a better grasp on the basics and his positioning, plus he's been decent for Chelsea in their good form recently.

Mainoo would be a liability coming up against intelligent players.

 

[johnny crossan]

Really depressing selection & interview, baghead is just a stupid bottler - even Woy Hodgson had more creative sparks.

 

[madloaf]

Mainoo plays with cement in his boots. Decent on the ball, but are so many players these days - including our goalkeeper. Too slow tracking a man.

Agreed - he gets lost on the pitch without the ball. He's nowhere near the player Rico is - and yes i am biased but still.

 

[Blue Smarties]

So first he didn’t pick a LB, and now that’s turned out to be bollocks the problem is just you don’t rate the LB…


I watch enough to know his issue was playing through injury, not suddenly turning to shit for no reason after 5+ years as a great player.

Trippier is a right back. He shouldn’t be viewing him as a left back, especially off the back of this season where he’s been worse than usual. It’ll be a dog mess of a summer, which has the benefit of it being his last at the helm.

 

[DTKOAG]

Contrary to the views on here i think its a mistake in not taking Rashford.

 

[domalino]

No Rico Lewis as expected. Played once, man of the match and then Southgate forgets about him and like a fucking moth gets drawn to the light of the latest United (Mainoo) player to appear from nowhere and manage to make it into their 'excellent team'. Probably because Lewis isnt a regular at City. Realistically Ederson would get in Uniteds midfield, never mind Lewis

Christ you lot are such hypocrites.

Rico has started 8 league games this season and has had entire months where he didn’t get on the pitch, he doesn’t deserve to be ahead of players who have played 3x as much football as him.

If you’re unhappy he’s not in the squad, go complain to Pep, him not playing the kid is the only reason he’s not in the squad.

 

[mexico1970]

Cue a couple of months of slagging the waistcoat off before the real slagging off when the matches kick off and others can slag the England singing and England penalties off.

Southgate is a twat
England are arrogant
Should the national anthem be changed?

 

[domalino]

Trippier is a right back. He shouldn’t be viewing him as a left back, especially off the back of this season where he’s been worse than usual. It’ll be a dog mess of a summer, which has the benefit of it being his last at the helm.

@Blue Smarties says he’s a right back so everyone else has to pretend he’s not played 20 caps for England at LB including most of the last tournament they got to the final in.

 

[madloaf]

Contrary to the views on here i think its a mistake in not taking Rashford.

Intrigued at the reasoning behind this thought.