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just a suggestion but could Stones play the No6 that people always go on about for England? he can pass out of defence, he can defend, he's able to hold on to the ball. England could quite easily use Guehi and another for CB pairing. Although I expect Man City fans would have more experience in knowing his strengths/weaknesses with them watching him week in, week out. Maybe getting a bit older and injuries might flare up a bit more

anytime I've seen an interview with Jude, he seems to be a guy who is confident in his own ability but mostly grounded and has his head screwed on properly, knows what he wants from his career he's more likely going to have more success with Real down the line which could lead to two scenarios when he joins up with England: one - his success with Real rubs off on the squad and he's able to push them on to national success two - he starts getting annoyed that people aren't at his level (or his club) and team-mates potentially start to resent him. Jude's a bit of special case in the idea of not having played in the Premier League yet and decided to play most of his career in Europe, first at Dortmund and then at Real Madrid. There's been England players who have gone to European clubs but normally they'd have at least one club in the top English division before that happens, unless I've missed somebody.

at one point, Rooney was in that category

"failed" in reference to what Southgate did with England I think Capello just wasn't the right fit as said

I was listening to a phone-in yesterday where people were wanting a "top class" manager in charge one of the guys said "we already had "top class" managers in Capello and Eriksson who failed". Can't disagree it has to be said, Southgate massively overachieved over so called better managers

they have for years, I mentioned in 2012, Pirlo ran the game against England in the Euros I thought maybe Wilshere was going to be it around that time but it wasn't to be, he had a bit of a Xavi/Iniesta sort of style to him

the Maguire stuff is a bit more interesting, saying he'd have been fit by game 3 but Southgate said he couldn't take the risk Guehi was one of England's best players so there's a good discovery there but Maguire might have taken the ball a bit more rather than seeing it booted away by Pickford

he picked the squad people wanted, remember the roars about no Henderson just didn't know what to do with it in the end

unless you were watching a different match, Spain were in control for the majority of the game probably could have won by more with better finishing

Toney headed it on to him to head it in if I remember correctly? finish was against Denmark

or play Gordon who might have been a better idea

with the right manager, England are definitely one of the favourites for the next World Cup maybe that will be where it all clicks?

no idea about the first one, 2nd might mean Walker was more central than right? I just work on goals rather than caring about xG

played years of FM and even I can't figure this one out why are Mainoo, Foden and Kane in the same place

Rodri if they could get him to change nationality it's an area that England have lacked for years, I remember Pirlo controlling a game in 2012 against England in the Euros