England Squad - Euro 2024

[City Raider]

Southgate has a tough choice deciding whether Bellingham should be falling over beside Kane or a bit deeper beside Rice

 

[BlueHammer85]

Jordan Henderson left out? How is that headline news? Thought he'd retired. Next they'll be reporting Paul Mariner didn't make the squad either.

because everyone said Southgate would definitely be picking him and starting him no matter what.

 

[ninjamonkey]

I have absolutely no love for waistcoat. I think he's way out of his depth, having him in charge of this squad is akin to getting a learner driver to race a red bull F1 car. he's already cost us 2 trophies imo and will likely cost us another this summer, however, that's not a bad preliminary squad to be fair. No obviously shit choices.

He's got to trim it by 7 though which is where we might see a few shit decisions made, trafford will drop out. There's 1, where he trims the rest from will be interesting though because there's 7 centre backs listed, you'd expect at least 2 maybe 3 to drop out from that, but then you've got 12 "forwards" which is far too many, but especially so when you've got a defensive minded manager who will probably only have 3 maybe 4 of them on the pitch most of the time which would suggest he's named probably 4 too many and then you look at the listed midfielders and despite not having enough in that area, you can immediately make a case to leave out 4 of them, TAA, Who is not a midfielder in any sense and will be a complete disaster if played there and jones, Wharton and Mainoo who all have almost zero international experience will be lucky to make the cut.

Just going by the numbers, you have to assume that there might be 1 "midfielder" cut at most. So that would be 1 keeper (trafford) 2 defenders (quansah, and dunk if Luke shaw is deemed "fit")
1 midfielder (should be jones but it'll almost certainly be wharton) then 3 forwards (Toney, Maddison, Eze)

 

[TonyColemansbagofapples]

Southgate names such a large squad so he can look at some of the younger players. What does the prick think the friendlies were for? Wanker!

 

[Middedon]

Don’t forget; this is the provisional squad.

Some of them won’t be going to Germany.

Who do we think is most likely to be cut?

 

[SebastianBlue]

Southgate has a tough choice deciding whether Bellingham should be falling over beside Kane or a bit deeper beside Rice

He just has to get the right balance…

 

[TonyColemansbagofapples]

I have absolutely no love for waistcoat. I think he's way out of his depth, having him in charge of this squad is akin to getting a learner driver to race a red bull F1 car. he's already cost us 2 trophies imo and will likely cost us another this summer, however, that's not a bad preliminary squad to be fair. No obviously shit choices.

He's got to trim it by 7 though which is where we might see a few shit decisions made, trafford will drop out. There's 1, where he trims the rest from will be interesting though because there's 7 centre backs listed, you'd expect at least 2 maybe 3 to drop out from that, but then you've got 12 "forwards" which is far too many, but especially so when you've got a defensive minded manager who will probably only have 3 maybe 4 of them on the pitch most of the time which would suggest he's named probably 4 too many and then you look at the listed midfielders and despite not having enough in that area, you can immediately make a case to leave out 4 of them, TAA, Who is not a midfielder in any sense and will be a complete disaster if played there and jones, Wharton and Mainoo who all have almost zero international experience will be lucky to make the cut.

Just going by the numbers, you have to assume that there might be 1 "midfielder" cut at most. So that would be 1 keeper (trafford) 2 defenders (quansah, and dunk if Luke shaw is deemed "fit")
1 midfielder (should be jones but it'll almost certainly be wharton) then 3 forwards (Toney, Maddison, Eze)

He's listed them as forwards so it looks like a more attacking selection. He must think we're stupid as everyone knows he's a safety first manager

 

[SebastianBlue]

Who do we think is most likely to be cut?

Stones, Walker, Grealish, Foden.

 

[SebastianBlue]

I have absolutely no love for waistcoat. I think he's way out of his depth, having him in charge of this squad is akin to getting a learner driver to race a red bull F1 car. he's already cost us 2 trophies imo and will likely cost us another this summer, however, that's not a bad preliminary squad to be fair. No obviously shit choices.

He's got to trim it by 7 though which is where we might see a few shit decisions made, trafford will drop out. There's 1, where he trims the rest from will be interesting though because there's 7 centre backs listed, you'd expect at least 2 maybe 3 to drop out from that, but then you've got 12 "forwards" which is far too many, but especially so when you've got a defensive minded manager who will probably only have 3 maybe 4 of them on the pitch most of the time which would suggest he's named probably 4 too many and then you look at the listed midfielders and despite not having enough in that area, you can immediately make a case to leave out 4 of them, TAA, Who is not a midfielder in any sense and will be a complete disaster if played there and jones, Wharton and Mainoo who all have almost zero international experience will be lucky to make the cut.

Just going by the numbers, you have to assume that there might be 1 "midfielder" cut at most. So that would be 1 keeper (trafford) 2 defenders (quansah, and dunk if Luke shaw is deemed "fit")
1 midfielder (should be jones but it'll almost certainly be wharton) then 3 forwards (Toney, Maddison, Eze)

Has to keep Eze as he is actually a midfielder, otherwise I agree.

 

[TonyColemansbagofapples]

He just has to get the right balance…

He hasn't got the right balance to hold his head straight when he speaks so you're asking a lot there.