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Considering most people thought we'd lose to Colombia pretty favourably I imagine. Not to mention most were incredibly negative about our chances coming into the tournament, don't see any result changing anyone's viewpoint on this tournament to be anything other than a success tbh. Did they? From what I remember people were already talking about the semi's when we got Colombia :lol:

A fun few weeks but ultimately not that impressive given we'll have played games against 2 very poor teams, 3 average ones and went out.

That blue staff/training top looks very nice. Also physical evidence of the red lettering. Wonder who our number 5 is going into this season? Lejeune changing number perhaps? EDIT: Sorry for the duplicate, I didn't read the last page.

True enough. Only problem with Southgate on the evidence thus far is a possible lack of tactical flexibility or reluctance to brave a change. When one team is happy to play the dirty or negative way, the other team has the opportunity to change things up tactically, remaining cool and thus gaining an advantage. We didn't see that against Colombia, if anything we were drawn into playing their game. I think we will come up against something similar with Sweden (although not the foul play necessarily) and I'm interested to see what the manager does if Sweden are comfortably defending against our attacks. Do we risk pens again or do we be proactive, change the flow of the game and punish them. That stuff is down to the manager.

I mean he's right in saying England have hardly been playing good football like. Apart from 20 minutes against Tunisia I think England have looked pretty ordinary and a little one-dimensional. Not terrible, but I wouldn't say particularly good either. I do get the impression they have a big performance to pull out against one of the bigger sides should they beat Sweden.

Was going to Gladbach yesterday. Changes daily = Nobody knows what they're on about. I'll wait until there's actual confirmation before I panic too much.

It's all speculation my man. It's just my prediction that Wolves won't be as good as what people think. Smooth sailing for them last season, it's all about character now as they move in unchartered waters. It seems naive to believe big name signings + winning the championship = premier league survival/success. This league is about having big characters and that much remains to be seen. Ask me again when Wolves hit their inevitable rough patch this coming season - seeing how they react to that will be telling.

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Ah okay, I get you. I didn't see the hype around any of those players the way there's hype around Foden, but it might just be me. Fair man, it might just be me equally. I remember being excited hearing about Josh McEachran thinking we (England) had a superstar coming through. Same with Will Hughes a few years ago he was made out to be incredible. Foden getting a few games for City under one of the best managers in our lifetime has to count for something though.

Confirmed.

Mouez Hassen had an incredible 10 or so minutes against England before getting injured

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Get what you're saying although I had a good feeling about it a few days ago when our bid was confirmed. Again, I don't know why for reasons you have stated

I think immediately-speaking he's an upgrade due to his fitness, premier league experience and obvious quality as a footballer. In the long term Merino would probably have progressed into a first team starter as he obviously looked really talented, but as it stands it's still up for speculation whether he would have re-discovered his early form next season, he looked poor at times last season admittedly, and I really like him.

I think it does like, not saying it's wrong, but just that there's a yearly anticipation, expectation & excitement for the youngsters. In recent times you have Hughes, Ward-Prowse, Shaw, McEachran, Armstrong, Redmond, Swift, Oxford, Chalobah (some of which are of course very much still developing). I'm not saying it's a bad thing, just that I think we always get the impression that England have a good set of youngsters each year due to relative success at their level and the factor of unknown quantity.

Neymar feels like a Madrid player like. Mbappe you can see ending up at Barca pretty soon, I think he'll be too big for even a Man Utd or City soon, especially if the tournament keeps going well for him.

I have a good feeling about this one and I don't know why.

Chelsea fans seem to think Mount & Callum Hudson-Odoi are going to be incredible. I haven't seen either play but I hope they're right. My feeling is that every year or two there's 5/6 names banded about. Only 1/2 ever seem to truly step up. Turning young promise at U21 level seems to show very little correlation to becoming a top senior player. Foden, Brewster and Sancho are all in good setups to progress. Sancho is already getting games at Dortmund and Pep/Klopp both seem willing to bring up talented youngsters. Not much faith in Chelsea bringing through youngsters from the academy though True regarding those three. Be interesting to see if those two managers still fancy them if the going gets tough next season, or if they were being played because they were cruising for a large portion of the season. Might be right, but this gets said literally every year.

Christ Just to clarify, by young Iniesta I mean he looks like Iniesta when he was young, not a young version of peak Iniesta. Iniesta when he was 7, got ya'

Chelsea fans seem to think Mount & Callum Hudson-Odoi are going to be incredible. I haven't seen either play but I hope they're right. My feeling is that every year or two there's 5/6 names banded about. Only 1/2 ever seem to truly step up. Turning young promise at U21 level seems to show very little correlation to becoming a top senior player.

Man, if they don't get a good start to the league it's gonna turn nasty.

Christ He does look good like, not necessarily a winger either (which is where you often see these youngsters blooded), City brought him on for his first appearances for Toure & then Gundogan, so the fact he was trusted to come on and play centrally is a canny testament to his ability/mentality.