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England Squad announcement, 9:45am, Friday, May 22nd
England Squad announcement, 9:45am, Friday, May 22nd
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don't think he fancies Trent ?
Garner on merit maybe deserves it but MLS covers positions beyond a default.. |
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How many Newc fans would pick Burn or Livramento at LB ahead of Hall?
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Good question - though on the thread currently (Newcastle) is that his form has dipped a bit..I've not seen full 90's of Newcastle for a good few weeks so no idea on his true recent form..
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Widely reported Trent hasn't made it, which makes sense as we need a defender who can defend.
There's Livramento who can play right back, and first choice Reece James, though Livramento will play left back looking at the projected squad list, can't see any other left back as back up apart from O'Reilly but he's been playing further forward for City for ages, which is why Hall apparently not making it is very strange. Burn has played left back a few times this season, but you don't really want a bean pole playing that position. Trafford expected to be the 3rd keeper behind Pickford and Henderson. Quansah is apparently in along with Stones, one player who finished 6th in the tin pot league in Germany, and the other barely fit, I wonder if that is true, but every respected journo is going with Stones. Maguire a big surprise really, would have taken him over Burn or Quansah as centre back option. |
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O'Reilly has played as a nominal LB for Citeh most of the time (false LB if you will) - especially at group stage there may be a view to use him like that..
James, Guehi. Konsa, O'Reiily is not a bad back four by any stretch...if he went that way.. |
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I think Cole Palmer badly needs a break. Although part of me would have selected him for his penalty record
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I just read up to see Clydebank had probably just read the same BBC predicted squad list I had just looked at.
Does anyone really want Trent in the side, he works under a Klopp system, but that's not Tuchel. Southgate was even right, he's a liability at the back and he's not going to play as some kind of wing back or out and out winger, Sake will be playing down the right hand side of attack. So really he'd be a waste of a place, though not confirmed if he is actually being left out yet. |
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I'd be surprised if he's in - not least on his RM season which makes him quite an easy omission..but he remains one of England's most gifted footballers imo..quite where you would play him against any decent side I'm not sure..
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Foden not being selected is completely down to Pep, he's cost him his place at the World Cup, he was in the side for a while earlier in the season, then Pep does what he does, inexplicably drops him.
Just to go off on a slight tangent, same with Cherki, everyone heaping praise on him recently, likening him to Hazard, and how Pep has allowed him freedom to roam, then he just randomly starts benching him. Reijnders was voted best midfield player in Italy before he joined City, signs him but can't get a kick. I think this is the first time Pep has gone 2 years in a row with a league title, probably past his best. |
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If I was a player not selected for the world cup I'd be delighted to get a nine week break.
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Jed Spence
 Who thought having this Gerrymonger was a good idea?! Fire him now! |
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How many donkeys he taking?
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No Shaw, no Slab he don’t want us to get of of the group!
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Henderson
FC this bloke |
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There has been some comment that Maguire is not a good team player off the pitch and his reaction suggests that he thinks of himself before the team. I watch football but I am not a fanatic. There are a couple of names there that I barely recognise. The most miserable looking person in the squad is surely Tuchel. He always looks to me like he is really ill. He would not be in my list of the best 40 managers around.
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He’s picked some odd ones Sage and players who haven’t even played a part in the warm ups.
Saka has had a bad season looks knackered, Stines hasn’t even been playing, Wellbeck has had a better season than Watkins, it’s shocking. |
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England's 2026 World Cup squad:
Goalkeepers: Jordan Pickford (Everton), Dean Henderson (Crystal Palace), James Trafford (Manchester City) Defenders: Reece James (Chelsea), Tino Livramento (Newcastle), Marc Guehi (Manchester City), Ezri Konsa (Aston Villa), John Stones (Manchester City), Jarell Quansah (Bayer Leverkusen), Nico O'Reilly (Manchester City), Dan Burn (Newcastle), Djed Spence (Tottenham) Midfielders: Declan Rice (Arsenal), Elliot Anderson (Nottingham Forest), Jude Bellingham (Real Madrid), Jordan Henderson (Brentford), Morgan Rogers (Aston Villa), Kobbie Mainoo (Manchester United), Eberechi Eze (Arsenal) Forwards: Harry Kane (Bayern Munich), Ivan Toney (Al Ahli), Ollie Watkins (Aston Villa), Bukayo Saka (Arsenal), Noni Madueke (Arsenal), Marcus Rashford (Barcelona, on loan from Manchester United), Anthony Gordon (Newcastle) |
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Roman Emperor sign to the above - Thumb Down
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Ivan Toney
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Ivan Toney's agent on his way to the post box with a brown envelope... 1.01.
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Not one Liverpool player (when was the last time that happened?) included.
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He's seen them in training I guess.
I'd have picked the same bar Hall and Maguire myself for Spence and Quansah. Guess Quansah has vastly improved since the Liverpool and under 21 version at Leverkusen |
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Klopp Slot and Liverpool fans will be scratching his head for sure
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Liverpool players feature prominently in the Dutch squad
we dont have many english players - curtis, rio ?? |
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glad to see henderson is there to make the cups of tea
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Says alot about Liverpools home grown recruitment I suppose.
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Henderson there for his leadership attitude and experience. I agree with that personally
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id have probably taken Maguire for that
wouldnt have played much but apparently a very sound chap |
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Henderson's had his day.
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As Henderson made it, Milner must have been a cünt hair away from a call-up.
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❌ Cole Palmer
❌ Harry Maguire ❌ Lewis Hall ❌ Morgan Gibbs-White ❌ Adam Wharton ❌ Phil Foden ❌ Jarrod Bowen ❌ Alex Scott ❌ Trent Alexander-Arnold ❌ Luke Shaw ❌ Fikayo Tomori |
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How many of Tuchel's squad would make Farage's squad?
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Maguire and his family should have said nothing, if there's an injury and there always seems to be, he could have been first replacement, but Tuchel looked irked when he was told about the statements and comments from his family so that's his chance completely gone.
Don't understand how Stones is going though, no match fitness, no form, not the player he used to be. Lewis Hall people are raging about, done nothing for months. But then neither has Stones. |
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James Garner is a shocking omission.
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English managers pick individuals ,German managers pick teams ,8 world cup finals with a 50% success rate is far preferable to the 100% success rate England have in finals. England's price is the best back to lay bet of the world cup.
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German managers have a much smaller pool of international quality players. Nagelsmann would give his wife's left t1t for the players Tuchel is leaving at home.
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That's a great point Jack. Southgate, Hodgson and Mcclaren would 1005 have picked an out of form Palmer and Foden.
Rooney himself admitted that he told Southgate not to pick because he was out of form, saying players got there on name only. |
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Sometimes they get picked so you don't upset them, for
next tournament, when they are in form, and don't retire. Maybe Tuchel doesn't care about next tournament, just this one, but maybe that's right thing,... 60 years of pain, jules rimet still gleaming |
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got to be worst squad sent to a world cup
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❌ Cole Palmer.................out of form, carrying an injury
❌ Harry Maguire..............should have been droppped years ago Lewis Hall.....................too inconsistent ❌ Morgan Gibbs-White...........good player ❌ Adam Wharton.................decent player but just not good enough ❌ Phil Foden..................never done it for England, glad he hasnt gone ❌ Jarrod Bowen.................good player, should have gone imo ❌ Alex Scott....................not good enough ❌ Trent Alexander-Arnold........not good enough as a full back or as a wing back ❌ Luke Shaw.....................surprised he hasnt gone but maybe he just doent fit in with the rest? ❌ Fikayo Tomori.................not good enough We all have our favourites and we all have our opinions. Its a cracking squad that he's taking to the WC. |