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Walker, Trent, Trippier, James. Probably Rico Lewis too.

Hard to see how Southgate recovers from losing his fifth most talented right back.

You sure you don’t have an issue with his attitude because you don’t rate him as a player? It’s pretty normal for players to get angry with each other during games, surely.

This is all meaningless conjecture really. The same player was criticised for laughing wryly after scoring an unfortunate own goal - now he’s a troublemaker for being too angry on the pitch rather than too light-hearted?

Pretty dumb from the admin tbh

Reading how he describes the recovery from the ACL injury and the work it took to get back to where he is in less than a year - it beggars belief that people think he was just lazing around and owes us his entire career.

If we’re honest, the best person to play alongside Rice and Bellingham in midfield would pretty obviously be John Stones. But we’re even lighter at CB than we are in midfield so it can’t happen. Personally I think we go with a midfield three of Rice, TAA and Bellingham - certainly against the...

I think West Ham spending a small fortune to replace him at that position with Phillips (who has been awful and likely played himself out of contention) tells you that he’s not a credible solution there.

Ward-Prowse, a holding midfielder?

Are there many players from the Eredivisie going to the Euros? It’s obviously not a league I watch very often…

No, I’m saying the Dutch league is a decent standard of football for picking international players. I don’t hear much criticism of the (supposedly inferior) Portuguese league when we’re all fawning over Vik, so not sure why playing in the Eredevisie precludes anyone from selection for us. And...

Would you say the same about Portugal? The Dutch league is ranked higher. Both strike me as a perfectly acceptable standard for a player with ambitions to be at the Euros.

You pick a squad that includes leaders and lieutenants who the manager trusts to impose a bit of order and stability on a notoriously high-pressure environment. You can just pick a squad that’s an ever-spinning carousel of flavour-of-the-month players, with no concern for how they’ll actually...

So you leave out one of the most experienced and respected members of the squad for a player with about a dozen career games at senior level who’s never even been in an England squad before? It’s not going to happen. It’s been the fashionable thing to bash Henderson for a while now, and if he’d...

Which other holding midfielders would you pick? I assume the squad - if not the first XI - will need more than one.

It’s completely the wrong game for Kelly. Can’t see him getting on unless we need to park the bus for penalties in extra time.

Nothing gets the blood going on here like a good old fashioned population debate. Up there with “CCFC promotion vs England WC win” and “Should Dabo have taken a penalty” as all-time topics.

Must say I don’t remember anything about this, but even if they were total arseholes I wouldn’t wish this situation on any club, especially knowing everything we went through. There by the grace of Godden etc.

https://www.coventrytelegraph.net/sport/football/football-news/coventry-city-sakamoto-fa-elbow-28625573

Glad he’s continuing his career - he said he’d suffered horrendous abuse while with us, a claim which has been somewhat brushed under the carpet.