Phil Foden to leave England camp

[lancs blue]

southgate is saying the secure bit of the England hotel was not breached

I'm struggling to understand that, if Foden and Greenwood went back to the secure bit after their "indiscretion" then surely it would have been breached just by their presence?

 

[ayrshire_blue]

Two words Phil,

DAVID

SILVA

Irritating that he's now already had 1 more media scandal than Dave ever got involved in. If he's going to live up to him on the pitch, he'll need to learn to live up to him off it.

 

[markstephenhickey]

 

[grim up north]

I'm struggling to understand that, if Foden and Greenwood went back to the secure bit after their "indiscretion" then surely it would have been breached just by their presence?

im guessing he meant the alleged girls

 

[Mad Eyed Screamer]

If they were in any doubt before they were called up i am sure they would have been fully told what they could and could not do. Just incredibly stupid by both of them on their first international call up.

Foden has been on a lot of international trips - no idea about the rag - and will have had it drummed into him lots of times previously, especially when away with a gang of 17 year olds.....

 

[CrownPointBlue]

However.........if Phil has knowingly contravened the known & agreed protocol that’s the second time in 3 months and very disappointing.

As a father of a young child and as a product of City’s ‘ player & person ‘ philosophy he should know better.

Grow up Phil, you’re a man not a kid now !!

 

[Keeper!]

Foden has been on a lot of international trips - no idea about the rag - and will have had it drummed into him lots of times previously, especially when away with a gang of 17 year olds.....

Full national team is many, many layers up on that!

 

[domalino]

I'm not overly surprised hes finally done something stupid. Phils been in the media eye since he was 15. Sports personality of the year at 16. City first team at 17, youngest PL winner in history, announced the golden child of English football. Settled down with a long term girlfriend and a kid at 19, and all the stories about how all he does in his spare time is fish with his dad. He was dealing with everything a little too perfectly and a mistake was inevitable.

Hes lost out on being an adolescent, doing stupid things and learning from them without the whole world seeing it.

All things considered its not the worst thing in the world to have happened to him. Better a small incident at 20 to learn from than bottling it all up and being a tiger woods/giggs at 32.

Greenwood being there halves the spotlight and rules out any club rivalries exacerbating the backlash. The club is taking it seriously and he'll learn from it.

 

[kaz7]

If that is real they are busted

 

[SebastianBlue]

Full national team is many, many layers up on that!

Think that was part of @Mad Eyed Screamer’s point, mate.

That he knew better and there’s absolutely no way to rationally argue otherwise.