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too many foreign imports.....eight of the starting X1 for Italy had la liga experience this season......say no more....
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Jake Forster-Caskey and the Under21 finals
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too many foreign imports.....eight of the starting X1 for Italy had la liga experience this season......say no more....
That is the easy answer to blame it on that.
The last world cup we didn't qualify for was 94 and we had a restriction on overseas players still in place (I believe) and only a handful of foreign players.
The attitude of our young English players is terrible - Dier and Ince rejected call ups to the U21s this season - Sterling was too tired to play for the seniors and players like Barkley deem the U21s beneath them now he has a massive 13 caps for the full team.
Add the new pictures of Grealish pictured on the floor out of his head drunk and Whilshire (who I rate highly when fit) seen out numerous times drunk/smoking etc.
Then you have Sterling again, who playing in the U21s would have been a benefit to him more interested in getting more money by moving clubs.
This isnt a new thing, players Like Bentley and Lennon did it before.
Stop this sort of behavior and we may see an increase in performance and managers trusting our youth players more.
Then there is clubs in the lower tier charging the earth for young British talent - not that I blame them - but why would you spend double the amount on a player with the same skill set just because they are English?
The Mail actually said "Too pedestrian in possession, regularly choosing the safe option."
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Are you saying the Spanish under 21s suffer because of too many foreign Italian imports?
Unfortunately doing anything else seems to have been coached out of him.
I fear he's been ruined.
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Southgate proved he's hopelessly out of his depth too last night. Playing four in midfield is one thing, but playing two of our most lightweight midfielders in the centre was ridiculous - reminded me of something Hyppia would do. Ward-Prowse is quality, yet barely played. Chalobah was undroppable. Loftus-Cheek showed his class, so didn't start a game.
We didn't need to win last night. We should have played a tight game, much like the Italians would have. But no, Southgate went back to 4-4-2 & we sucked
We didn't need to win last night. We should have played a tight game, much like the Italians would have. But no, Southgate went back to 4-4-2 & we sucked
The most damning stat to come out of last nights game was the young Italians had double combined games in their top flight than our players.
Whatever the cited reason for this means that our most promising youngsters are probably a season and half behind the Italians in games played, experience and development within a top level environment at 20 years old.
Exactly right. Shocking from Southgate - not only last night but all tournament. They qualified flawlessly with a settled system and settled team, set off to the finals off the back of a great win over Germany, and he threw it all away by ****ing about with the team as soon as they got there.
Bizarre.
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Lightweight player, lightweight team (Harry Kane excepted obviously), lightweight manager.
Oh well, it got a bit lost in translation coming on to NSC then!
I believe that was the starting 11?
Through Ward Prowse in there ( who should have been starting) and that number would have been cut in half.
His selections last night was bizarre