Mikky

Yeah the academy is very much in keeping with the 5 year plan - still a way to go - good thing is we are starting from the bottom and the only way is up

Give it a few years and we’ll have a much stronger set up - clearly out of their depth

What a bloody poor goal to concede

U19 in B&W tops - we should be wearing the same tonight

How much space do Bournemouth leave between their midfield and defence - every single attack

Dont know why they appointed Rudi Garcia - poor choice imo

Perfect 3 dimensional player in the sense he can play all 3 roles in the front 3

Defo need a top quality RWF

Looks like we have 2 Botmans available according to Skys yellow ticker

Hopefully Kelvin Phillips can get more game time too - Think Phillips - Rice is the combo needed to let Bellingham (Foden/Maddison) loose as the 10s

I mean I can sort of understand why Southgate picks him as he has generally done ok for Eng BUT at the same time if England have aspirations to put themselves in contention then you need to have a squad of players who are playing regularly (some may be rotated like a Foden) Maguire is totally frozen by Man U - losing game time with every passing week Stones - Guehi should be the pairing - then Dunk, Tomori next in line - with the likes of Mings, Colwill, et al competing when available

Add Stomes

Totally forgot about Foden yikes Good strength in depth tbh

I would add Saka too - think he’s amazing Grealish on the left

Bellingham just wow

Lovely finish Maguire

More for their own self interest than anything else

Wor Jude is class

What has Romania got to do with this? (Is it just close as an ally to Serbia?)

Should have gone after the WC - I don’t even bother watching Eng anymore - waste of time

Played as the 10 today

Will be interesting too see Croatia in the next 10-15 years - you’ve always had good solid teams since your debut in 96 - one benefit you have is that the natural pathway seems to be across to Italy for a lot of your players - some are picked by the likes of Ajax, Salzburg, Leipzig of this world - hopefully us too in the future By the way - whatever happened to Croatia Zagreb? Remember that famous CL qualifier

Nope defo Wor Hristo in a Bulgaria win (1-0) Remember he had 1 disallowed vs France off the inside of the bar ….?? Given both Bulgaria and Romanias exploits in USA 94 - this turned out to be a group that was dull - didn’t help that both France and Spain were boring as anything

Honestly thought we were signing Stoichkov after that game - Well KK did his best job on convincing me he was during comms Or was it the Romania game? He scored a belter in one

Always seem to have the same squad - can’t think of anyone new they’ve produced in a long time - bar Gvardiol I suppose