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Basically the role of captain will depend entirely on who's still at the club on 1st September. If Lallana is definitely ruled out then we'd just as well give it to Davis...for obvious reasons, I really don't know where this excessive confidence in Morgan staying on comes from, he's admitted publicly on 2 occasions that he wants away but only in the conditions right for the club. The fact that he's not trumpetting to the gutter press every 30 seconds or so and has a discreet agent doesn't change that.

So avoiding a group winner in the next round isn't somthing to play for then, if they should lose to England and Uruguay or Italy beat the other handsomely CRC could find themselves second and up against say Colombia...not sure that they'd want that to happen.

What does he expect, if you're not in Europe you'll struggle for top,top players. Next season perhaps.

Still it's nowhere near as good as a 3some where one of the girls is checking her e-mails right ?

the "bint" is a twin (or so they say in the Sun) from there the maths isn't S level.

Perhaps one of them is leaving but is just being discreet about it. DD doesn't allow transfer bolloaks at his training camps, more fool Hodgson for letting everyone do as theyy liked.

World cup summers are always a bit different transfer wise, well in the PL anyway. As we've not really been involved with that since 2002 we've just forgotten how different they are that's all.

Well I'd not really consider those as major additions,not compared to say Fabregas and then who knows what his actual state is really. Emre might be alright who knows but Lambert is at the end of the road, still he'll be able to sit on the bench at his spiritual home I suppose.

Who have Liverpool signed then ?

Zaha's situation may now change though, unless of course he's already sh@gged some relative of LvG...who knows really.:smug:

Certainly not, Koeman can just top us up with Dutch players who are used to his style of play. System will be different anyway, might as well get some money and players who the coach actually wwants.

But he's not English, England do not develop players of the calibre of Morgan or Cabaye and probably not even Mavuba or Gonalons. These lads don't need a partner, they can "tenir la baraque" all by themselves, that's why Morgan doesn't really like playing with Wanyama. France's system is basically 4-1-2-3 with one holding MF and 2 powerhouses in front of him coupled with 3 out and out attacking players who aren't expected to track back too far, just defend at corners and free-kicks and in their respective zones. If England want to adopt that system then they'd have to ditch Gerrand and put Phil Jones in his place and swap Henderson for a far more attacking player, if they even have one of sufficient calibre.

just as I said...or at least I think I might have done. Once Barca and Real come sniffing around any Hispanophone is a goner. It's their spiritual home(s),even though they come from the suburbs of Montevideo and Buenos Aires.

But if it comes from Marca or As then it's probably fairly factual. Obviously they don't get it right all of the time but they have direct access into the top level management at Spanish clubs and don't usually need to make stuff up to sell their rags. Football isn't so secret squirrel outside of the UK.

Well I think there's a dearth of real strikers in England, the very fact that Lambert is in the group tells you that. Then again Walcott and JRod are injured, they are real strikers,f'in fast as well. However you'd expect Sturridge to be a bit more adept than he has been to date, perhaps he's just sh@gged out. Perhaps Wickham will finally kick on before the next major tournament.

perhaps we need to get a few of our younger players out of the PL and into other major championships. Now I'd not know this for certain but we (England that is, not my own particular favourites) must be one of the few participating sides at this WC where all of the players are drawn from the same national championship. Leads to a lack of variety of experience, playing styles etc.

I can't help but agree with him, although being I Saints follower for many years I just can't see that Lambert or Shaw amongst others had their place in this 23. Should have taken Cole (always said that) and he should have taken a real winger instead of Lambert, doesn't really matter who, as long as he can get down a flank and past the defender. Johnson showed them what to do eventually, imagine if we'd had a real winger doing that for 90 minutes. Spain left their wingers at home as well and look at the result. It's true that you can play without recognised wide men, but there you need better players in CM than Gerrard and Henderson because if you're going to throw your FBs forward a lot then the 2 CMs need to be rock solid...and fast. Still if Walcott and JRod weren't injured then I think England's campaign might have been better.

Interestingly (or perhaps not) they had a chap on TF1 last night who said that he knows a bit about Suarez (can't remember why) and that he has a sort of built in instinctive radar for these things, he knows where the keeper is without looking and knows exactly where to put the ball to beat him, could be poetic licence and all that but all of the experts seemed to be in complete agreement with him.

Need to cut the bloke some slack, he's 34 and a scouser, probably be a grandad soon. Blokes obviously got things to think about other than performing adequately at football.

Hart had no chance with either goal, Suarez doesn't miss those, you could put whoever you like between the sticks and all other things being equal Suarez would have scored both times. Change the defence and maybe not who knows but Hart wasn't at fault.

Well I expect he didn't count on losing against Italy and being up against the wall in only the second match. A squad of 23 including 3 keepers isn't too much provided you progress in the tournament, if you're going to get knocked out at the initial group stage you might as well only take 14 or 15, that's largely enough. After that accumulated yellow cards and injuries force you to use the depth of your group, I match suspension for just 2 cards idoesn't give you much scope especially in key areas like CM where players get cards often enough. Think there are a few suspended already after only 2 games max per pool. But Shaw was a poor choice, should have taken Cole and played him from the start, big game experience like CL and EL finals is useful enough in games such as England have had already. That's one of the England squad's biggest problems in my opinion, there are too many players without CL experience, it's what guides players in difficult situations, they've been there and done that. I know Deschamps is fanatically keen about it.

According to some Uruguyan exile that we had commenting on Infosport after the game last night Suarez is still on 1 leg with injections.

really, thought that was Cavani, might have been getting another tinny out of the fridge at that moment I suppose, can't get any maid service around here any more.

Perhaps that's what the coach told him to do eh. Should never have left Ashley Cole at home, that way Hodgson would have had an alternative at LB. Bad squad selection was always going to handicap England. We have to get to a point where the popular press doesn't pick the squad. Oh and stop taking walking wounded just in case they have miracle recoveries before the final which we wouldn't qualify for anyway. England could still have won last night...if they had Suarez,wasted too many 70% chances. Loads of shots on goal, only one beat the keeper. Suarez 2 shots, 2 goals.

perhaps not....on a "free", if he'd cost them even 5 million over say a 4 year contract that means about 25 K more a week that they can pay him without taking much of a hit. Being out of contract is a great advantage for desirable footballers, look at Sagna, on the open market he'd cost at least 12/15 million, on a free he's got so much more negociating power.