Mikky

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

Would like to see Gordon on right - Joe or Barnes on left - Isak as 10 - a Wilson up top Bruno and Tonali holding

With what we have the easy solution is a double pivot - Trippier needs to go further forward as does Hall (eventually) meaning Tonali sits a bit more to the left - making it a 3 at the back when defending and when in possession - Having Burn at LB means we can’t fully utilise the double pivot as he barely gets forward - even Trippier goes forward less

Tonali is McTominay - just an all round better and complete player - just being used incorrectly at the moment by Howe

They should both sit and allow our full backs to go further up Just needs a bit of a tactical switch around - both have the potential to be incredible together

My mum has had 5 strokes - it’s honestly horrible - I have every sympathy with those affected

Team 1 for me Bruno - Tonali Gordon - Isak - Big Joe (Barnes) Wilson

Switch Bruno and Tonali to allow Hall to go further forward Great thing about that front 4 is that you can still accommodate Big Joe - Anderson - Murphy and. Barnes - it’s so flexible with so many rotation possibilities - even switching Tripps for Tino

Its how you accommodate Hall into the team - Tonali plays on that side (left pivot - plays in a zone) so not to leave us exposed - it’s hard for opposing teams to get at us via a counter as there’s no real space left behind Hall - who has more freedom to go forward and create We can’t play in straight lines - yes it worked last year - but you have to evolve tactically Burn and Miggy are decent players but they are holding us back - we have players to take their places - need to use them - no room for sentiments

With the way we play, it’s going to look out of shape - not using Tonali correctly is the big issue for me - he’s there to pass it around and cover the spaces left - sounds like a nothing role but it requires so much discipline - which if used correctly, he has