England's campaign gets underway in this competition tonight. If you "don't give a ****" then prove that by ignoring the thread and not posting.
Otherwise, here's my observations on the squad - having had a peek at the FA website.
Eight of the squad are from Liverpool (3) or Everton (5 - including Dier on loan from Sporting, and Garbutt and Stone, poached from championship teams).
From outside the top flight, one from Forest, one from Sheff Utd and three from Middlesbrough.
Three from Man Utd, two from Spurs and one each from West Ham (Steve Potts' son), Newcastle (pinched from Coventry) and Southampton.
So it seems you have to play for a team in the North West, or - bizarrely - Middlesbrough to get a shout. The old net doesn't seem to have been cast too far and wide here if you ask me?
Still, best of luck to 'em! Come on England!
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I posted this on the other thread about u20 football, but I still can't figure out if the young Nigerian player we signed from FC Luzern is at the tournament or not based on his tweets (I'm not even sure what his real name is but none of the squad lists list a player from Charlton)
https://mobile.twitter.com/Endurancemiz1/tweets
As for England, it's hard to say as I only really recognise some of the players in this squad, although they must be good players if Callum Harriott can't get a look in, this chap appears to have never kicked a ball in a first team game
http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Larnell_Cole whilst Harriott was a big part of a team that was on one of the best runs of form in England at the end of last season.
I watched Turkey v El Salvador last night, Turkey looked good going forwards but El Salvador were poor at the back (this goal pretty much sums up the strengths of one and the weakness of the other http://m.youtube.com/#/watch?v=MXAmdKBWbpI&desktop_uri=/watch?v=MXAmdKBWbpI ).
What really struck me about your post was the number of players on the Turkey side who were born and raised in other countries yet the Turkish FA are still scouting them. If the vast majority of our under 20 talent is drawn from one region then I'd hazard a guess that there are more players from London playing for other national teams than England. Are we missing the best talent from under our noses ?
Not quite sure what they mean by homegrown, if Wilson, Green and Haynes count we must have been on 6 (Solly, Wagstaff, Harriott being the others). Of course we also had several u21s on the bench that didn't make a league appearance.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/football/teams/watford/10080387/Watford-manager-Gianfranco-Zola-ready-to-cash-in-his-chips-in-high-stakes-Wembley-play-off-final.html
Harriott and Azeez have been in England u19 squads (and Cousins on standby I think) last season and Sho-Silva and Holmes-Dennis have been with the England u18s. It'll be interesting to see if they're called up for the u20s and u21s in the next few years.
Harriott good enough for this team.
Also Lloyd Doyley but he is hardly a youngster now!
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