Dan

I'm fully with this. I don't think it will actually happen but that Stolarczyk injury and Hermansen link away... it's too close to being a possibility for my liking. I don't want him even in friendlies.

Signing Weghorst doesn't mean you've started playing caveman football. If it does that's a coaching fault. He'd be a genuinely different option. He can press, link play, he's not prolific (well his goal record in England is pretty dire in truth) but he'd have uses. A Dutch international. People are acting like we'd be signing Akinfenwa. I'd be fine with him on loan for a year.

That's a real shitter. I really like Stolarczyk. We're strong in goal, Hermansen is very good and he's not a million miles behind him but with Stolarczyk out that means we're precariously reliant on Hermansen. Ward doesn't even bare thinking about. I'd probably hold onto Iversen now as crap as it probably is for him.

It's very early days for Cooper and ultimately these are only friendlies where he'll be testing things out, but Fatawu on the left is a big no for me and I swear to god if Ward sees any gametime I will flip. He'll be on a hiding to nothing.

We were but was it not pretty much already agreed and we came out later on voting against? Not something I'll criticise them on per se but also not something I'll wax lyrical over, felt it was quite cleverly done.

Like a desperate onlyfans girl this club. Genuinely shameless.

Are they actually not showing Tuesdays? I just don't get why they wouldn't?

Jokingly said bring him back. The time has passed for him - I think his Euros performances got pretty overrated personally. He was great against Austria then did very little in the remainder but everyone just went off that game.

All a decoy for the Todd Cantwell signing.

Was very highly rated for a good Colombia side in the Copa America.

Will you be able to watch the games on youtube etc?

Better not be us starting it then. **** me.

Very meh. I'd not mind a loan but just seems like a not insignificant fee for a very ordinary player.

Totally plausible theory. When I say this about him, he's obviously good, I just don't think he's quite as good as made out.

I've found a way around it. DM me if you need it.

Same here. Strange how it can work out.

This tournament just gone was something else. I think it was quite comfortably his worst tournament and yet we made the final.

Personally think Euro 2024 was a tournament too many anyway so I'm glad it's happening. He's been the best England manager of my lifetime for sure and I'll say that despite any criticism I have of him. I cannot help but think we ought to have cashed in one trophy in that period though.

Played Brazil and Belgium in March. Won neither of course.

It sort of goes without saying but coaching a cohesive system is such a cheat code. Spain had this where they've managed to get the maximum from their parts, have been able to effectively rotate without that big a drop off in form. They were able to change everybody against Albania due to having the group sewn up by winning their opening two games - a luxury England would've had if we'd beaten Denmark. Everything Southgate's done has been to cover for the lack of cohesive system he had in place. I mean he started the tournament with Trent in midfield and after two games of garbage changed it to Gallagher! Before finally settling on Mainoo. Spain's rotation has kept their team fresh and seen players who in many instances people would pick ours over theirs, substantially outperform ours. Players like Fabian Ruiz and Dani Olmo substantially outperforming Rice and Foden. Williams and Yamal both far better than Bellingham and Saka were. Some of their players really did announce themselves this tournament. I didn't realise how good Yamal, Williams and Olmo especially actually were. I've loved watching Spain and I'm glad it's them rather than someone like France. They're a lovely rounded team. They play both possession and direct football effectively. Southgate was blagging this from day one of this tournament.

Howe isn't perfect but I think he's quite comfortably the best we have to offer in England. His teams are genuinely exciting to watch as well. He plays with a lot of speed. His teams have fallen off in the long run but he's definitely overperformed relative to what he's had in terms of resource and squad - which I know sounds daft to say as a Newcastle manager, but he did very well to get them to finish that high in 2023.

Howe is definitely the best English manager.

Stat pad is fair when you're frequently found wanting in the big games. Kane didn't have a single good performance all tournament. But as usual we just plodded on and pretended everything was OK with him. For all his obvious brilliance over his career it's a fair accusation of Ronaldo for Portugal as well.

He obviously will be as well. He doesn't deserve this sort of indulgence. Name his biggest goal for England that wasn't a penalty (and I'm not letting anyone say Denmark here either!)

I'd rather they were English but our lack of decent coaches is a problem and has been for years. Potter is the obvious candidate and yet I could see him going a similar way. I don't think we'd become the team people were hoping for. But then I think we'd probably be a bit more cohesive if anything else. The lack of viable alternative mixed with the fluke final run is going to see us blow 2026 on Southgate as well.