Dont know if its the right place to post this but the English media has a colossal negative influence in the quality of the English nt.
1 - The media is vastly responsible for the football culture of a country, and the football culture will define the type of player will be formed in the academies.
Example:
- in the 90s the Brazilian coaches were under pressure to emulate the Italians.
It had a devastator effect in the overall level of the players.
Later in the 2000s the journos started to only rate the "Spanish style", now everybody is playing 4-3-3.
If some local coach is playing with donkeys in the midfield, the Media will trash him and give negative ratings to the players.
It will angry the fans and the coach would ending losing his job.
RESULT?:
- All the young midfielders coming from the academy now are more skilfull and attacking oriented.
2 - This is the power of the media over the football style.
3 - Do not want to be a cnut but i need to say this: if you read papers and sites from Spain, Brazil, Argentina, Italy, etc; you realize how the English pundits are really, really bad.
Other day i was watching a transfer window show and the English pundits were saying that Barcelona should sign Mbappe because "he's far better than Coutinho"..
What does that even means? Is Mbappe better than Coutinho? Yes, if he keeps his current form.
But he's better than Marcelo, Sergio Ramos and De Gea too..what's that comparassion??
4 - Try this: after some big Champions League game, go to Italian/Spanish/German papers and take a look in the players ratings. Then compare with the ratings in the English papers..its like if they were watching a different game.
The English media dont care if a skilfull player do everything easily, they will rate higher a donkey who barely can pass a ball if he scores a tap in.
5 - Is not hard to figure out that Sterling is the most "universal" English player.
But he's trashed all the time.
I'd rather try to "fix" a potential wc player than tolerate a effective donkey.
