Apparently after seeing him last season Klopp decided against bringing in RB cover. Looks solid whenever I've seen him. Was surprised he wasn't a part of any of the England youth teams this summer, but perhaps he was injured.
Thought Walker-Peters was absolutely excellent in Korea. Glad he's given a chance. Good on the ball, very athletic, and a tough defender.
Apparently after seeing him last season Klopp decided against bringing in RB cover. Looks solid whenever I've seen him. Was surprised he wasn't a part of any of the England youth teams this summer, but perhaps he was injured.
Thought Walker-Peters was absolutely excellent in Korea. Glad he's given a chance. Good on the ball, very athletic, and a tough defender.
TAA asked not to be selected so he could concentrate on pre season at Liverpool.
Walker-Peters played left back in Korea and was brilliant, heard he played at right back on Sunday and was given player of the match award.
England have got some excellent full backs in their main squad and in the yoof teams.
We seem to have a lot of young, athletic full backs. Dominant centre backs seem to be harder to find.
I don't think this is a coincidence. We churned out big, non-nonsense CBs for years, with the likes of Trevor Brooking citing our penchant for forcing kids to play on big, muddy pitches as a reason for consistently producing those players.
I'm guessing a bit here, but I think we're getting our youngsters into Futsal, not forcing them to play 11-a-side until they're older, getting them onto all-weather pitches and training kids to be technical and quick. And as a result, we've created the type of player that makes our U-20s look rather exciting, but perhaps at the cost of the next Eddie Youds.
For fans and much of the media, it's easier to rave about youngsters with great attacking flair - I remember Kieran Gibbs getting rave reviews for England - than defensive organisation and steadiness. The young Chris Solly for me stood out because he was so good defensively as well as going forward.
It's not just us though, Barcelona to me have never properly replaced Carlos Puyol, all great teams need that defensive rock
he's 18 going on 30 .. calm, assured, quick, skilful will/should be in the England squad for the next World Cup .. perhaps we can get Clyne on loan as we need 'cover' (for cover read soon need replacement) for St Chris Solly
Cannot see him getting in front of Kieran Tripper.
Can't see Kieran Trippier playing either if Spurs get Serge Aurier.
Is it just in Britain and the US we are getting subjected to a huge increase in this double barrelled nonsense or is it rife across the rest of Europe and wider a field as well?
Maybe. A friend's son married an Estonian and adopted her surname in a double-barrelled format by way of respect to her family. Some countries change names too to make them more easily pronounced. So in Latvia, that left-handed bloke from The Beatles is known as Pols Makartnijs. (They put an "s" on the end of everything it seems.)
So Matt Holland is English/Irish while Danny Hollands is Latvian?
he's 18 going on 30 .. calm, assured, quick, skilful will/should be in the England squad for the next World Cup .. perhaps we can get Clyne on loan as we need 'cover' (for cover read soon need replacement) for St Chris Solly
Cannot see him getting in front of Kieran Tripper.
Can't see Kieran Trippier playing either if Spurs get Serge Aurier.
Will Spurs get Aurier though?
They're the second team after Man Utd to show interest yet surely they should be waiting till his future is clarified as at the moment he's not allowed here in England
he's 18 going on 30 .. calm, assured, quick, skilful will/should be in the England squad for the next World Cup .. perhaps we can get Clyne on loan as we need 'cover' (for cover read soon need replacement) for St Chris Solly
Cannot see him getting in front of Kieran Tripper.
Can't see Kieran Trippier playing either if Spurs get Serge Aurier.
Will Spurs get Aurier though?
They're the second team after Man Utd to show interest yet surely they should be waiting till his future is clarified as at the moment he's not allowed here in England
Fair point.
As it's a Premier League club you know that the rules be relaxed and a move will happen.
Is it mandatory for modern footballers under the age of 20 to have double barrelled surnames?
I think there are so many nowadays because comparatively few people get married so it's a way of honouring both families, but it's got to fizzle out some point. What happens when the double-barrelled generation start dropping their own sprogs, people can't seriously use four surnames so something will have to give.
Me and my missus have been having this argument, been talking about the future and marriage etc. She's adamant that she's keeping her pretty uncommon sounding surname and having our kids have a double barrelled surname. This is literally the argument I gave for not doing it, you're taking away that choice from your children yourself. Bit cheeky but I'll be damned if I don't pass on my pathetic neutral sounding name that my grandfather adopted when he became an adult.
The 18 year old scored a great FK for Liverpool night against Hoffenheim tonight. Good to see a local lad given a chance, though possibly bad news for Gomez as he might have hoped to cover at RB himself.
With Kyle Walker-Peters also playing well for Spurs at the weekend, it's good to see young defenders getting a chance at top clubs.
Is it just in Britain and the US we are getting subjected to a huge increase in this double barrelled nonsense or is it rife across the rest of Europe and wider a field as well?
I can't wait for the next generation of double barreled names, when the double barreled start marrying other doubled barrels. Can you imagine Alexander Arnold Hackett Fairchild written on the back of your shirt either size xxl or in fine print
Is it mandatory for modern footballers under the age of 20 to have double barrelled surnames?
I think there are so many nowadays because comparatively few people get married so it's a way of honouring both families, but it's got to fizzle out some point. What happens when the double-barrelled generation start dropping their own sprogs, people can't seriously use four surnames so something will have to give.
Me and my missus have been having this argument, been talking about the future and marriage etc. She's adamant that she's keeping her pretty uncommon sounding surname and having our kids have a double barrelled surname. This is literally the argument I gave for not doing it, you're taking away that choice from your children yourself. Bit cheeky but I'll be damned if I don't pass on my pathetic neutral sounding name that my grandfather adopted when he became an adult.
They can always just change their name like your grandad did...
Is it mandatory for modern footballers under the age of 20 to have double barrelled surnames?
I think there are so many nowadays because comparatively few people get married so it's a way of honouring both families, but it's got to fizzle out some point. What happens when the double-barrelled generation start dropping their own sprogs, people can't seriously use four surnames so something will have to give.
Me and my missus have been having this argument, been talking about the future and marriage etc. She's adamant that she's keeping her pretty uncommon sounding surname and having our kids have a double barrelled surname. This is literally the argument I gave for not doing it, you're taking away that choice from your children yourself. Bit cheeky but I'll be damned if I don't pass on my pathetic neutral sounding name that my grandfather adopted when he became an adult.
Give her the elbow, find somebody with the same surname as you and marry her (or not) You can't lose.
I'd like to share that we're even moving beyond double barrelling - my friends, who'd remain anonymous if I didn't have to share their surnames for this to work, were called Somerville and McCloud.
They merged their surnames into Somercloud which I think is lovely.
I make no apologies for being young, AFKA...
i think thats lovely Paddy but what if Bob Curtis son married Andy Hunts daughter ?
Is it mandatory for modern footballers under the age of 20 to have double barrelled surnames?
I think there are so many nowadays because comparatively few people get married so it's a way of honouring both families, but it's got to fizzle out some point. What happens when the double-barrelled generation start dropping their own sprogs, people can't seriously use four surnames so something will have to give.
I have a friend with a double-barrelled surname, who married someone with a normal, single surname. She dropped one of her surnames and double-barrelled the remaining one with the guy's surname.
I'd like to share that we're even moving beyond double barrelling - my friends, who'd remain anonymous if I didn't have to share their surnames for this to work, were called Somerville and McCloud.
They merged their surnames into Somercloud which I think is lovely.
I make no apologies for being young, AFKA...
That is nice. My sister had friends whose surnames were Shoush and Pitfield. It didn't go down well when she suggested they merge their names - Shitfield.
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It's not just us though, Barcelona to me have never properly replaced Carlos Puyol, all great teams need that defensive rock
They're the second team after Man Utd to show interest yet surely they should be waiting till his future is clarified as at the moment he's not allowed here in England
As it's a Premier League club you know that the rules be relaxed and a move will happen.
Interesting article about double barreled footballing surnames in the mail , we seem to be leading the way in the respect.
We've had a few over the last year's
Holmes Dennis
Hackett Fairchild
Forster caskey
Charles cook
Fosu heranyone think of anymore ?