12 Jun 2025 21:33:04
Am watching the England under 21 team labour against the Czech. Kinds of reminds me of Utd. Little guile and lots of side and backwards passes.
Struck me that there is a real lack of top creative midfielders in the England team and it's like that in the senior team too and in most Premier League teams. Where is the Scholes or Hoddle or Gascoigne? Are we enjoying great football but mainly created by foreign players?
13 Jun 2025 09:34:05
Salford7, it's really difficult to be critical of Guardiola for what he has achieved but from an England perspective, Grealish is a great example of English players who are having the flair coached out of them to fit a system. I am a big fan of young English players who go abroad to develop their game, Bellingham prime example. It seems to be happening more now which is positive. I think being a foreign player gives you more privacy as the media seem to be more interested in their own national players so there, perhaps is less pressure on them. Gittens is another good example. Sancho, in hindsight, should have stayed abroad to keep his stock high. Perhaps the media attention on him here is to much for him. I think if Rashford was to move abroad, you'd see the old Marcus Rashford.
13 Jun 2025 12:11:40
It’s not just Pep, most coaches now just drill where they got to be down to the blade of grass what they then got to do, how they got to do it, they are coached into an inch of there lives, hence all become robotic, which imo makes the game less interesting and more just like machine, when someone don’t do what they are supposed it’s like taking cog out the machine… hence why we don’t see the likes of Gazza and Hoddle no more, which is a real shame, ok players got fitter, but for flair and excitement imo the game gone backwards.
13 Jun 2025 16:44:04
Wait to see Wirtz star for Liverpool. He will show his flair and class. Damn shame the scousers got him. There are flair players but most seem to come from abroad. I think this reflects badly on English coaches. The managers of City Liverpool PSG and Barcelona have no problem using flair players but they all have one thing in common. using a structure to get the best out of the flair players.
13 Jun 2025 18:04:59
I not seen enough of writs but I very much doubt he in Gazza or Hoddle league.