I know, it's bordering on a crisis now, in sporting terms, not an actualy crisis obviously.
Yesterday's man, Diego. Great in his day but it's gone.
How is he yesterdays man? He’s 28. Still playing well and putting in man of the match performance against the best team in Europe. Literally ran them ragged. He will prove you and others wrong. It’s what he does.
He's only about 28 isn't he? Just seems to have been around forever as he broke through at about 17 I think.
Not sure how you think he’s yesterdays man. When the likes of Grealish are only a couple of years younger than him. Sterling has been twice the player Grealish has throughout his career. And the stats would back that up too.
That’s not to say he’s not holding them back. He has done great work with team culture and getting players to buy into the National Team, but he is not maximising the talent we have for me.We've just qualified with ease with games to spare and finished 6 points clear of the current European champions. We've won more knockout games in the last 3 tournaments than we'd won in the previous 14. We reached our first final in nearly 60 years. We've broken goal scoring records in every tournament Southgate has been manager in. We've beaten more top ten ranked teams in competitive games than any England manager in history.
But yeah Southgate is holding us back because we were a bit lacklustre in two meaningless games after we'd already qualified.
Just in general England games lately, we make it hard for ourselves
The team has evolved since 2018 playing a 3-5-2 to one that can switch between 4-3-3 and 4-2-3-1.
Win something I guess?
As simple as that eh. That is total English exceptionalism. It completely ignores the many good nations in World Football.
Why can’t he motivate the players in these games, surely he should be able to do that
If they don't fancy getting kicked up in the air and pulled down with impunity for 90 minutes in a meaningless dead rubber who can blame them. It was all I could do not to switch it off.
He's no longer producing consistently at the top level. Yes he had a good game against City but he's not doing it often enough.
Or why couldn’t Carrick motivate Boro to win once play off qualification was secured last season? If only football was so simple.
Fans don’t travel over 1500 miles to watch their team play. Also, they don’t play teams with the chasm of quality and wages between the England players and the Macedonia players.