This forum is fecking miserable.
Is Mainoo the real deal?
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And the hunt continues from the usual ones 
He created the space for Palmer to score the equaliser…
4D chess from Kobbie
I don't think anyone thinks he's the finished article. But for just 19 he's brilliant, he obviously needs to keep progressing if he is to turn out to be a top midfielder in world football. But for 19, he's a brilliant prospect and already a good midfielder.
Yeah, no. Apart from a couple of defenders, a few were poor/worst than Mainoo.
I can relate from pub football it’s quite hard to play centre mid in a long ball team
Not very good today but take it on the chin and move on. Really needs to improve his passing game.
Who? I thought he was England's worst player, as much as I love him. Had no impact on the ball or defence, in possession game, didnt make himself available.
Maybe Kane was as poor.
All Mainoo's fault no doubt. ABU's out in full force.
What do you folks expect him to do when no one passes to him? We were looking for someone with composure to keep a hold of the ball and they kept bypassing him and subsequently losing the ball
Has a tendency to fade in the second half.
Concerning
Concerning
Thank f*ck Southgate era is over, and he's only 19.
He should only thrive on a new wave, with the right direction.
He should only thrive on a new wave, with the right direction.
inb4 Adam Wharton/Curtis Jones should have played.
He was poor shied away from possession with his movement but was decent defensively.
As stated time and time again Mainoo is an 8, he doesn't play the 6 naturally so against a better team Bellingham should have always been the partner to Rice to offset the need for a pass as Jude can run off his marker and has the experience despite his age playing at a higher level.
As stated time and time again Mainoo is an 8, he doesn't play the 6 naturally so against a better team Bellingham should have always been the partner to Rice to offset the need for a pass as Jude can run off his marker and has the experience despite his age playing at a higher level.
Found it hard to find an accurate pass with Spain clogging up the middle of the pitch. Just 72% pass accuracy. Rice was only 78%
Didn’t play well today, at lesson that can be said
Learning curve. Game passed him by.
Still the fecking real deal. Young lad is special.
You guys expect way too much from a 19yo against a midfield of Rodri, Fabian Ruiz and Dani Olmo. All excellent players at the peak of their careers playing for a more cohesive and better drilled team. Chill
Kane, Walker, Foden for a start
Already heard Trent mentioned here and there, haha.
Unnoticeable tonight. Hopefully a lesson for him.
A bit is putting it lightly. Muscled a Spanish player off the ball on more than one occasion and he’s apparently lacking in physicality
Wasn't great but still better than Rice on the ball again today.
He didn't have a great game but the whole team couldn't pass a fecking parcel. The lad has had an excellent tournament, one of the hardest positions to play and he has been excellent.
Christ.
Worst I've seen him play sadly
England players just don’t know how to use him. Put him in place of Ruiz alongside Rodri and Olmo in that Spain side and you’d see his value.
He didn’t have a great game but he was better than Rice and Kane. Bellingham for the first 75 minutes as well.
He didn’t have a great game but he was better than Rice and Kane. Bellingham for the first 75 minutes as well.
He needs to impose himself more on games, hopefully it comes with more experience.
Did you see Rice play? Or he can't be criticized
Wasn't great but the midfield looked a lot more open once he came off, he was positionally disciplined at least.
He always manages to escape criticism somehow. Been shite all tournament.
He’s had a better tournament than Rice.
At 19 and already having world class attributes. I’ll take that. He can work on everything else.
Has had a very good tournament so can feel proud. I do think for him to become a dominant midfielder he needs to develop more intensity and authority to his game. Which hopefully will come with maturity but at the moment there are long spells of games where he just disappears both for club and country
Think this is the mitigation. He was playing a more disciplined game than he naturally does and took away his spark but also he did quite well defensively and when he came off England became very open
I dont think anybody expects him to be the finished article at 19. I feel however, that he has very specific strenghts (dribbling, progressing play) but also very specific weaknesses ( strenght, speed, positional awareness). And I wonder, below the line if the good outweighs the bad. To back this up, apart from the semi final, Mainoo hasn't been on the pitch for a single England goal this Euro's, but he was on the pitch for Slovakia, Swiss and Spain taking the lead. He was also part of the United midfield that got destroyed in the PL past season. Very anecdotal evidence, I know, and hopefully the latter will be different next season.
That picture of him leaning against the post on his own broke my heart. Hugs Kobbie!
He wasn't even bad, just kept quiet. He needs to impose himself and that takes time.