[Albion] Tuchel announces his first England squad tomorrow, are we expecting any Brighton players to make the cut?..

[Guinness Boy]

The Big Question is, do they know the national anthem?

TICKLE does

 

[jackalbion]

TICKLE does

Hope this one has the correct lyrics!

 

[highflyer]

I'm just not interested in England, and less and less interested in International football generally. So I haven't followed the whole thread

But was fairly impressed by how Tuchel was talking at the press conference I listened to on the radio. Especially his defence and explanations for the choices he knew would be controversiall. And by the contrast with the twitching mess that I remember at the end of his Chelsea time.

Also I am a bit pleased for Dan Burn. He's worked hard for it. The lanky, Saudi-loving, over-celebrating twat.

 

[Han Solo]

I'm just not interested in England, and less and less interested in International football generally. So I haven't followed the whole thread

But was fairly impressed by how Tuchel was talking at the press conference I listened to on the radio. Especially his defence and explanations for the choices he knew would be controversiall. And by the contrast with the twitching mess that I remember at the end of his Chelsea time.

Also I am a bit pleased for Dan Burn. He's worked hard for it. The lanky, Saudi-loving, over-celebrating twat.

Yeah, at least can't accuse him of being populist..

 

[Randy McNob]

I'm just not interested in England, and less and less interested in International football generally. So I haven't followed the whole thread

But was fairly impressed by how Tuchel was talking at the press conference I listened to on the radio. Especially his defence and explanations for the choices he knew would be controversiall. And by the contrast with the twitching mess that I remember at the end of his Chelsea time.

Also I am a bit pleased for Dan Burn. He's worked hard for it. The lanky, Saudi-loving, over-celebrating twat.

I'll reserve my judgement since we've had our fingers burned in the past, if I recall a not too disimilar 1st press conference with Eriksson and people thinking we had the next Arsene Wenger and the FA pulled off a masterstroke!! History is not on his side

 

[JBizzle]

of the 22 outfield players, here are 18 of them. Which of these are "the same tired old players"?

Defenders: Dan Burn (Newcastle), Levi Colwill (Chelsea), Marc Guehi (Crystal Palace),, Ezri Konsa (Aston Villa), Myles Lewis-Skelly (Arsenal), Tino Livramento (Newcastle), Jarell Quansah (Liverpool),


Midfielders: Jude Bellingham (Real Madrid), Eberechi Eze (Crystal Palace), Curtis Jones (Liverpool), Cole Palmer (Chelsea), Morgan Rogers (Aston Villa), Declan Rice (Arsenal).

Forwards: Jarrod Bowen (West Ham), Anthony Gordon (Newcastle), Phil Foden (Manchester City), Harry Kane (Bayern Munich), Dominic Solanke (Tottenham).


As ever with England squads, people ignore that TWENTY SIX players are picked and focus on the 2 or 3 they don't like.

A team of

Pickford
Livramento
Colwill
Guehi
Lewis-Skelly
Rice
Bellingham
Gordon
Kane
Palmer

would hardly be seen as full of tired old players

The turnover of young players coming into the england set up over the last few years has been massive, yet people still have this belief that the squad never changes. I'd argue Guehi, Bellingham and Palmer are key players now. All under 24. Saka would be a key one, 23. Rice is a long standing player now, he's still only 26.

There are around 16 players in this squad who weren't at the last world cup.

That may be so and, for me personally, I'm not singling out players because I dislike them. It's not the case.

It feels tired and old to me, not because of the new players coming in, but because the core of the team is the same. Pickford is not good enough to win a World Cup, Rice has yet to perform consistently well for England, Kane will be 33 at the next World Cup and still leading the line. It's my problem, and it is a perception problem. When I look at this squad, does it excite me? No, but it was never going to because Tuchel's job isn't to excite me now, it's to win a World Cup in 2026.

Even looking at the team you put up there though, is it a good team? Yes. Would it win a World Cup? No. That said, I am interested to see how it evolves and changes over the next 18 months.

 

[Grizz]

Usually I'm not that bothered by England picks, it's the usual merry-go-round, it's usually never that adventurous, but I'll vent my ire about Henderson. Poor choice, should be nowhere near the squad both for playing ability and his shit career choices in recent years. I know most will be dismissive of that and that's fine with me, but his decision to go to Saudi hit hard when he professed to be such a Ally. He can forever do one in my eyes, however irrational that seems to others

 

[bluenitsuj]

Same old shit.