😂 ok I can see I’m in the minority so won’t go on except to say any half decent manager would have a better chance of winning something with this group of players Southgate just isn’t a winner and bottles it when it’s within his grasp, nice bloke yes winner no
Not saying you're asking for Pep but... brilliant managers at club level "fail" all the time at international level.
Look at Luis Enrique and Spain. Arguably one of the best managers in the world, knocked out of the World Cup by Morocco.
Why is it so difficult to make the transition from club football to internationals?
Because club managers, especially the best ones, have the luxury of buying better players, and spending months and months training with them daily to play the fancy free flowing football that that top-rated manager wants to see.
Then you get hired as your national team's head coach and all of a sudden you can't go out and buy a new centre back when you need one, make do with what you've got. You can't spend weeks and weeks in a pre season laying down a playing philosophy, how you want players to build play etc etc. and if you can't pivot quickly into areas where you can make easy marginal gains instead, you're in trouble.
Why have England traditionally been one of the best set piece threats in world football under Southgate? Because he has limited time with the squad so it's an area that's easy to work on with limited time that he has available. Players come into the international camp on a Mon/Tues and are gone by the following Mon/Tues until the next month, if not a 4-5 month break.
You might think I'm giving Southgate a big benefit of the doubt here but there's another country that approaches modern international football in the same way... Didier Deschamps and France.
How to turn a truely golden generation into a shite squad of negativity whatever the result of any qualifiers whatever our fifa world ranking the minute we play a decent team in a game that matters Southgate will stifle any chance we have end of
I think you are massively overestimating our squad calling it a "golden generation"
we have two world class players and potentially two others - Trent and Sako. The rest are mid table premier league. The defence is arguably lower than that centrally.
Who's the second world class player not named Kane?
Saka is England's second best player and is clearly world class at this point.
How to turn a truely golden generation into a shite squad of negativity whatever the result of any qualifiers whatever our fifa world ranking the minute we play a decent team in a game that matters Southgate will stifle any chance we have end of
I think you are massively overestimating our squad calling it a "golden generation"
we have two world class players and potentially two others - Trent and Sako. The rest are mid table premier league. The defence is arguably lower than that centrally.
Who's the second world class player not named Kane?
Saka is England's second best player and is clearly world class at this point.
How to turn a truely golden generation into a shite squad of negativity whatever the result of any qualifiers whatever our fifa world ranking the minute we play a decent team in a game that matters Southgate will stifle any chance we have end of
I think you are massively overestimating our squad calling it a "golden generation"
we have two world class players and potentially two others - Trent and Sako. The rest are mid table premier league. The defence is arguably lower than that centrally.
Who's the second world class player not named Kane?
Saka is England's second best player and is clearly world class at this point.
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Much better start by England, Grealish shouldn't have wandered offside.
Treverlos Kettledinhio over here
Why is it so difficult to make the transition from club football to internationals?
Because club managers, especially the best ones, have the luxury of buying better players, and spending months and months training with them daily to play the fancy free flowing football that that top-rated manager wants to see.
Then you get hired as your national team's head coach and all of a sudden you can't go out and buy a new centre back when you need one, make do with what you've got. You can't spend weeks and weeks in a pre season laying down a playing philosophy, how you want players to build play etc etc. and if you can't pivot quickly into areas where you can make easy marginal gains instead, you're in trouble.
Why have England traditionally been one of the best set piece threats in world football under Southgate? Because he has limited time with the squad so it's an area that's easy to work on with limited time that he has available. Players come into the international camp on a Mon/Tues and are gone by the following Mon/Tues until the next month, if not a 4-5 month break.
You might think I'm giving Southgate a big benefit of the doubt here but there's another country that approaches modern international football in the same way... Didier Deschamps and France.
Saka is England's second best player and is clearly world class at this point.
Its like he’s playing out of position or something.
Hopefully it'll put the arguments of the armchair managers that he'd be a great midfielder to bed.
I think Saka is close.
Fans have been begging for him to play in midfield for a long time. He's admittedly got a good pass on him but that doesn't make a good midfielder.
Saka is third. And named Saka.