^ totally agree
On another note: KWP has been head and shoulders our best player for aeons. Arguably the only genuine Prem standard player in the squad. He should be given the freedom of the City for his loyalty quite frankly.
It’s got to be said that we scraped promotion last season. Not as if we romped home. We have barely strengthened, have the same painfully obvious managerial flaws on show. The comments above about trying to be too clever are accurate.
We have managed to get away with Southgate’s misguided loyalty to Harry Kane so far this tournament but now the opposition is considerably better. It’s going to be the story of this tournament if we lose: how we persisted with him for far too long both intra-games and peri-tournament.