Monthly reminder that you guys still have TAA, one of the best players in the world still sitting on the bench and that you guys are not even complaining about it.
Where do you play him? I’m all for having him start, he’s a brilliant player, but he isn’t a perfect fit for the way Southgate sets up, especially against good teams. He plays RB for Liverpool but Trippier and Walker are better defensively, which Southgate covets. He can and probably should be in midfield against lower ranked opposition but against a France or Argentina, you probably want someone better positionally and off the ball.
He’s young though and when Walker and Trippier decline over the next couple years he can probably try and cement himself a starting place against the oft-injured Reece James, unless Livramento or someone else explodes into the team
Picking players on reputation rather than whether or not they’d suit our team is what we’d done wrong in the past. Walker and James are better right backs for our system so they’ll get picked.
We don’t complain because trippier and walker are clearly better for England, in a fair world he’s in way less england Sqauds because we don’t need 3 right backs we just feel the need to include him and put him in midfield or something
Monthly reminder that you guys still have TAA, one of the best players in the world still sitting on the bench and that you guys are not even complaining about it.
We complain all the time, lots of people want to see him in a midfield of himself, Rice, and Bellingham
He was playing in the midfield in the spring and summer.
Where do you play him? I’m all for having him start, he’s a brilliant player, but he isn’t a perfect fit for the way Southgate sets up, especially against good teams. He plays RB for Liverpool but Trippier and Walker are better defensively, which Southgate covets. He can and probably should be in midfield against lower ranked opposition but against a France or Argentina, you probably want someone better positionally and off the ball.
He’s young though and when Walker and Trippier decline over the next couple years he can probably try and cement himself a starting place against the oft-injured Reece James, unless Livramento or someone else explodes into the team
Picking players on reputation rather than whether or not they’d suit our team is what we’d done wrong in the past. Walker and James are better right backs for our system so they’ll get picked.
Bro what
We don’t complain because trippier and walker are clearly better for England, in a fair world he’s in way less england Sqauds because we don’t need 3 right backs we just feel the need to include him and put him in midfield or something