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Would rather carsley gets promoted than bringing in a club manager …

he was pretty much their stand out player last season

Both would have to become first choice picks for us and we’d need to stay in the prem for this to be even a little bit possible. they’ve both got everything to prove at championship level, never mind higher up. The only player I can think of recently who came into England’s first team squad from nowhere (as in hardly known as a first team player) is mainoo. As far as squad is concerned you could look at Wharton. we’ll see if he retains his place. we are short in that area of holding midfield/tempo player.

I wonder if this fella is better suited to our current predicament of trying to stay up than soule ?? soule has a higher potential ceiling but we need to have someone hit the ground running rather than potentially taking some time to settle in a strange country

not new and not entirely a surprise i guess it depends if they have any plans to sell one of their existing wide players. for him to go there, he'd be willing to accept being very much a squad member.

Our formation simply screwed us over last night we shoehorned in two no 10’s as per last couple games but with a tactically excellent high press up against us, we were a man short in deep midfield where we needed options to create angles to play out or just another body to compete for the breaking ball. This has become obvious to me in hindsight but the England coaching team need to deal with it in real time - as per 2021 they failed again

I think we could just about get away with justifying £15m for him on a psr swap deal. Of course we’d then have a player here who is also unlikely to make it but our psr position would be greatly enhanced!

That was a v good squad indeed (1998 through to 2010 )

Negative Nelly wouldn’t let them play please just go If he does then the new coach has to maintain the atmosphere and togetherness that Southgate has created - that’s his real achievement

Wing backs need to have a defensive instinct to cover that the back post I haven’t seen abdul show that consistently - yes on occasions he has followed his full back but if he’s a wing back he has to follow the winger aswell

Abdul doesn’t have the concentration levels to play wing back

No - it wasn’t handball as per the latest IFAB protocols they had pretty much exactly this incident in the pre tournament ref discussions and it was advised not to be a penalty

No bottle woud rather go long and get everyone behind the ball than play out and beat the press cos it’s risky

I mean they literally showed that it was onside

They already did - it’s up to him He won’t get a top six side cos he doesn’t have the composure in possession that they all require

This - especially given the tactics

Pickford’s footwork again Ghehi standing waiting for a pass and by the time he sees him it’s too late

We aren’t brave enough on the ball to keep it pickford isn’t good enough to hold possession and pick short passes so we can play triangles and beat their press we will drop our levels because we’re chasing after the ball too much - so the subs are essential to keeping us in it. The coach isn’t known for making those early enough

Can’t see us getting him and soule I think he’d be the more difficult deal to do aswell

Why are our bids being reported in sterling ?? eepecially by a journo in Milan he won’t be getting info from our end so will be from juve or players agent. Both would speak in euros (and our bid would be in euros too)

Depends what the add ons are

The secret on here is if something doesn’t make sense just ignore it 😄

AFCON

Something that’s not been highlighted enough is that the weather this tournament has helped us. Whilst our style of play is now better suited to the heat of a summer competition, it’s not in question that the usual hot, steamy and humid doesn’t help us. I can’t see us winning the next World Cup for this reason

memories of the ulloa saga but there wasn’t anyone else up against us