Maguire now technically innocent again under Greek law until the appeal happens.
Does that mean he's back in?
United seem to believe Maguire and think it’ll be overturned.
Chris Hughes, who was in Love Island and works for ITV Racing was out there at the the time and he is being very vocal on twitter saying it’s a complete stitch up.
Most fouled player Most distance carried with the ball
We need a central midfielder who can carry the ball and haven't had one since a young Jack Wilshire.
Pope Trent Gomez McGuire (when not in prison) Chilwell (when fit)
Rice Foden Grealish
Sterling Kane Sancho
Rashford Greenwood Mount all pushing to start
Glad Barclay has been dropped.
Not dropped. Southgate said he left him out due to injury.
I'm still baffled as to how Ward-Prowse gets in the squad
Ward-Prowse gets in because he's had an excellent season and he's a direct replacement for Jordan Henderson. The England team plays with a midfield where they have a defensive shield, normally Rice or Dier, a shuttler who ties everything together in Henderson or Winks, and a more creative 8 like Mount or Oxlade-Chamberlain who is also able to shift some donkey work when needed. Ward-Prowse plays for a team who obsessively press, he's good at recycling possession and he's ended the season in very good form conducting Southampton's midfield. Southgate has a way of playing and WP fits that perfectly while Henderson is out.
Ward-Prowse has been a regular for Southampton for years, if he was that good surely a bigger club would've come in for him by now. You don't even see him linked with anyone. I'm not saying he's a bad player as he's obviously ok, i just don't believe he's international quality.
This has very much been his breakthrough season for Saints. Previously he's always been in and around the squad but he's been very inconsistent and has made a lot of appearances as a sub. Last season for instance he played 26 PL games, 21 of which he started. The season before that he made 30 appearances, 20 of them starts. This season he didn't miss a minute of PL football. 38 appearances, all for 90 mins, and after the lockdown he was captain for all those appearances. He almost doubled his on-pitch minutes this season compared to last. He's not a genius by any stretch but he's worked on his game this season and has become reliable in possession, can dictate play a lot more and has fantastic crossing and set piece delivery. I would have thought this season would have been the one where bigger teams might sniff around, but Saints just tied him down with a 5 year contract about a week ago so that's out the window.
When it comes to international quality, it's less about how brilliant you are and more about whether you're more brilliant than the people around you. In terms of filling in for Henderson there's not really another English midfielder better than WP to fill that role on current form
My manager is a Southampton season ticket holder and has be banging on about Ward-Prowse for a couple of years. From what I heard he needed to be a bit more physical - since lockdown he has apparently stepped that part of his game up and taken on the captaincy.
Stanley Matthews in his autobiography railed against the England practice of picking the players in form rather than having some kind of consistency by using a group of talented players and sticking with them for a while.
Stanley Matthews in his autobiography railed against the England practice of picking the players in form rather than having some kind of consistency by using a group of talented players and sticking with them for a while.
Thats how I felt the England squad suffered at the time of the Golden Generation with it coming to the fore @ the 2010 World Cup
Players were selected too often on their reputation with other potential kids not given the opportunities so we lost out - 2010 World Cup was a perfect example because Joe Hart had just come off the back of a storming loan spell at Birmingham felt he was our best 'keeper yet Capello went for Green and then David James
By the time that competition came around that "amazing" generation was getting too old yet Managers would still persist with it, hence our abject failure against a young German team
Something seems really off with all of this. Based purely on nothing but a gut feel but feels like the local police and officials are as bent as FIFA here
Something seems really off with all of this. Based purely on nothing but a gut feel but feels like the local police and officials are as bent as FIFA here
Wonder what story the minibus driver had
Surely he could confirm what Harry Maguire said was true or not?
Something seems really off with all of this. Based purely on nothing but a gut feel but feels like the local police and officials are as bent as FIFA here
Wonder what story the minibus driver had
Surely he could confirm what Harry Maguire said was true or not?
Depends. If the police are corrupt for example, you think the minibus driver will want to be the one to stand up to it?
Football was a different game when Matthews was about. But it is always a bit of both. You will have core established players and players fighting for their places. I think the manager has to make a judgement on each player and we are not going to agree with every one. Looking back, a player like Le Tissier had too much pressure on him every game when he should have been given a run of games.
Also England teams have to be flexible to maximise the games of new players as far as possible. When you have established players, this may not happen. An example is where Bent got picked. He had a specific game which could have been successful at international level but the England team didn't play to it at all and he had to change which defeated the object of picking him.
AMN has been consistently good last few seasons and also offers the flexibility of playing in 4 or 5 positions. Saka should definitely be in the squad over trippier, even more so when chilwell is out.
centreback is a real issue for England, Gomez is a shoe in but who do you play with him? Don’t rate Maguire and stones has been off it for about 2 years.
Why? That's a very good way to make sure you don't get an England call up again for the foreseeable future. Southgate said Grealish is behind Sterling, Rashford, Sancho and Greenwood for a place on the wing. One pulls out and he gets a call up. What kind of professional throws his toys out of the pram because he's behind some other players and now might get a chance to prove he can play in that role?
Why? That's a very good way to make sure you don't get an England call up again for the foreseeable future. Southgate said Grealish is behind Sterling, Rashford, Sancho and Greenwood for a place on the wing. One pulls out and he gets a call up. What kind of professional throws his toys out of the pram because he's behind some other players and now might get a chance to prove he can play in that role?
He could always play a few friendlies for Ireland and the switch to playing for England.
Goalkeepers: Jordan Pickford (Everton), Nick Pope (Burnley), Dean Henderson (Manchester United)
Defenders: Trent Alexander-Arnold (Liverpool), Ben Chilwell (Chelsea), Conor Coady (Wolves), Eric Dier (Tottenham), Joe Gomez (Liverpool), Michael Keane (Everton), Harry Maguire (Manchester United), Ainsley Maitland-Niles (Arsenal), Tyrone Mings (Aston Villa), Bukayo Saka (Arsenal), Kieran Trippier (Atletico Madrid), Kyle Walker (Manchester City)
Midfielders: Jordan Henderson (Liverpool), Mason Mount (Chelsea), Kalvin Phillips (Leeds), Declan Rice (West Ham), James Ward-Prowse (Southampton), Harry Winks (Tottenham)
Forwards: Tammy Abraham (Chelsea), Harvey Barnes (Leicester), Dominic Calvert-Lewin (Everton), Jack Greilish (Aston Villa), Danny Ings (Southampton), Harry Kane (Tottenham), Marcus Rashford (Manchester United), Jadon Sancho (Borussia Dortmund), Raheem Sterling (Manchester City)
Why? That's a very good way to make sure you don't get an England call up again for the foreseeable future. Southgate said Grealish is behind Sterling, Rashford, Sancho and Greenwood for a place on the wing. One pulls out and he gets a call up. What kind of professional throws his toys out of the pram because he's behind some other players and now might get a chance to prove he can play in that role?
It was a comment made because Southgate has a clear blind spot towards the player. I wouldn't advise him to say that really, but certainly think it. Of the players Southgate has picked in midfield, the only one I would definitely pencil in before Grealish would be Henderson. Mount maybe.
Surely sending them home before the last game was punishment enough? They're only kids, just move on. We should be wanting to win games with our strongest available team/squad, not trying to prove a point to a couple of kids.
Greenwood i get should probably move back to the U21s anyway, but Foden should be in the team or at least on the bench.
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Does that mean he's back in?
Chris Hughes, who was in Love Island and works for ITV Racing was out there at the the time and he is being very vocal on twitter saying it’s a complete stitch up.
Players were selected too often on their reputation with other potential kids not given the opportunities so we lost out - 2010 World Cup was a perfect example because Joe Hart had just come off the back of a storming loan spell at Birmingham felt he was our best 'keeper yet Capello went for Green and then David James
By the time that competition came around that "amazing" generation was getting too old yet Managers would still persist with it, hence our abject failure against a young German team
Surely he could confirm what Harry Maguire said was true or not?
Also England teams have to be flexible to maximise the games of new players as far as possible. When you have established players, this may not happen. An example is where Bent got picked. He had a specific game which could have been successful at international level but the England team didn't play to it at all and he had to change which defeated the object of picking him.
Someone had to replace Maguire and we needed a Left-Back
Pickford/Henderson
TAA
Gomez
Maguire
Chilwell
Rice
Henderson
Foden
Sancho/Rashford
Sterling
Kane
Probably pick themselves.
That side is good enough (on paper at least) to surely reach the Euro semi finals.
That remains to be seen.
Henderson and Pope have been much better.
Give that it is a friendly of sorts but counts towards qualifying.
Goalkeepers: Jordan Pickford (Everton), Nick Pope (Burnley), Dean Henderson (Manchester United)
Defenders: Trent Alexander-Arnold (Liverpool), Ben Chilwell (Chelsea), Conor Coady (Wolves), Eric Dier (Tottenham), Joe Gomez (Liverpool), Michael Keane (Everton), Harry Maguire (Manchester United), Ainsley Maitland-Niles (Arsenal), Tyrone Mings (Aston Villa), Bukayo Saka (Arsenal), Kieran Trippier (Atletico Madrid), Kyle Walker (Manchester City)
Midfielders: Jordan Henderson (Liverpool), Mason Mount (Chelsea), Kalvin Phillips (Leeds), Declan Rice (West Ham), James Ward-Prowse (Southampton), Harry Winks (Tottenham)
Forwards: Tammy Abraham (Chelsea), Harvey Barnes (Leicester), Dominic Calvert-Lewin (Everton), Jack Greilish (Aston Villa), Danny Ings (Southampton), Harry Kane (Tottenham), Marcus Rashford (Manchester United), Jadon Sancho (Borussia Dortmund), Raheem Sterling (Manchester City)
Surely sending them home before the last game was punishment enough? They're only kids, just move on. We should be wanting to win games with our strongest available team/squad, not trying to prove a point to a couple of kids.
Greenwood i get should probably move back to the U21s anyway, but Foden should be in the team or at least on the bench.