England World Cup 2026 Squad | Trafford, Stones, Guehi & Nico in

Tuchel spoke to talkSport and they asked him about Palmer and Foden. Interestingly he just says Palmer didn't have a good enough season and wasn't available for many international breaks, but when he talks about Phil he's glowing in his praise for his behaviour in England camp, how well he trained etc. He says he could tell how much it meant to Phil and it hurt him to say he wasn't going. But says obviously he didn't play a lot in the second half of the season and then says he doesn't really know which position to play him in - as a 10, as a false 9 or in what he called 'a Bernardo Silva' role - and that it seems he's not an option as a winger anymore. So he didn't want to take him not knowing how to use him. Which is quite interesting because at times over the last 2 years Pep has had the same problem.
 
bobbyowenquiff said:
This is spot-on. English football has turned into rugby in the last few years. Skill is out of fashion in favour of muscle-bound robots. Arsenal are the ugly face of what has happened. England will be destroyed at the WC. A total laughing stock.
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Arsenal are certainly the epitome of it but all clubs have rapidly beaten that path, including, reluctantly, ourselves. Guardiola’s football was just too successful and just too dominant for the authorities to accept, so they’ve deliberately engendered a style of football that is designed to prevent it, certainly in the League. The moment they invented that nonsense about embracing physicality to preserve a traditional high-tempo game, about allowing officials a higher threshold when considering what constitutes a foul, well you knew that was done to stymie Guardiola and us. They will consider themselves vindicated if Aston Villa, Crystal Palace, and Arsenal all prevail and England somehow win, but I genuinely hope PSG, France, and Spain keep the torch burning for the beautiful game.
 
Dax777 said:
Fair team.

Goalkeepers good.

Defenders: I'd take Spence out for Luke Shaw and Cohlwill for Quansah.

We don't need 2 experienced backups. So John Stones is fine. It was either Slabhead or Stones. Never both.

Midfield: Wharton over Henderson , MGW in over Toney

Attack: Palmer over Madueke.


That would have been a better squad. Wharton, Exe and Palmer being your magic off 5he bench.
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Yould take Mainoo? Alex scott is much better.
 
domalino said:
A desperate and completely manufactured outrage let’s be honest.
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He made great play out of being a supporter of LGBTQ+ rights. Yet when he left Liverpool, it was to move to a country where same sex relationships are illegal. Let's be honest; he moved for the money. Which I understand; he's a professional sportsman, though I'm fairly sure he wasn't short of a bob or two after his time at Anfield. But it was naive in the extreme. If not a twat, he was a hypocrite. He's admitted it himself, he fucked up with that decision;

"Timing, with everything in hindsight, yes, maybe I would have made different decisions"
 
Is Henderson only in the team for moral?
Bowen, Maguire, Shaw, Wharton should be in.
 
Really strange squad selection, some of the players that have made the squad are bog standard some really surprising selection and some real quality being left at home. MGW and Slabhead have been playing well and must be gutted. Palmer has been atrocious but still felt he would get the knod regardless. Phil lacked minutes but again would have expected him to make the squad as he has actually done a lot more over the season than many that have been included ahead of him. Alexander Arnold being left out would have been unthinkable a year ago.
 
It’s what you get if you get a weird German as manager of national team. Least exciting squad ever. If Henderson is so mature and good for morale take him as a coach, don’t give him a vital place when he’s not going to play. Stones won’t start and has never been an effective sub, whereas Slabhead can come on just to win headers in either box depending on the need at end of a game. Spence ?! Henderson, Burn, Quansah, Mainoo, Toney, Maduke all bad selections
 
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Ita a wierd weakened squad but it might just work, - instead of trying to shoe horn in the best players that has failed so many times... but probably not...
 
Gabriel said:
Arsenal are certainly the epitome of it but all clubs have rapidly beaten that path, including, reluctantly, ourselves. Guardiola’s football was just too successful and just too dominant for the authorities to accept, so they’ve deliberately engendered a style of football that is designed to prevent it, certainly in the League. The moment they invented that nonsense about embracing physicality to preserve a traditional high-tempo game, about allowing officials a higher threshold when considering what constitutes a foul, well you knew that was done to stymie Guardiola and us. They will consider themselves vindicated if Aston Villa, Crystal Palace, and Arsenal all prevail and England somehow win, but I genuinely hope PSG, France, and Spain keep the torch burning for the beautiful game.
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Agee 100 per cent with this. English football has always been its own worse enemy. The Pep era has been a blip. The morons are back sadly.
 
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