Certainly interesting he can't get in a very pedestrian England side. What is Southgate not seeing? Might be one of those players who suits the Bundesliga but will struggle in the premier league.
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Certainly interesting he can't get in a very pedestrian England side. What is Southgate not seeing? Might be one of those players who suits the Bundesliga but will struggle in the premier league.
What has International football got to do with Premier League?
I completely agree with you and have said on countless occasions that your width comes via your fullbacks. But the fundamental difference is that your team has a concept on how to play the game which has been developed over a long period of time. United don't have a concept in transition as things stand and hence we don't look a fluid team. And that's mostly down to the tactical approach, lack of quality in the build up and a lack of quality in certain positions.
So Sancho playing on the right with Hakimi in the wide space (who is superior in attack to AWB) along with the likes of Dahoud and Witsel etc in the right sided CM role, provides a control and fluidity which really helps the collective. Our midfield (Mctominay-Fred) isn't as good as yours on the ball either, so unless we adopt a more proactive approach next season and implement it successfully, I can't see us being a more fluid team going forward.
Same reason he’s choosing Mount ahead of Grealish. He‘s probably got a bit of PTSD over playing with Gazza all those years ago and felt a more serious character would have saved him from ever needing to take a penalty.
People banging on about the system and how he won't fit without realising Sancho is the type of player you build teams around.
A winder upperer, Ole will love him.
Pfffft, all they have to do is beat the runner up from the group of death (France, Germany, Portugal) then beat Spain in the quarters then beat Holland in the semis ..... and they're in the final!
Arise Sir Gareth Southgate
Not really. Our biggest issue in attack is that we play too narrow due to lack of creativity on the right side.
Fair enough, mate. I have doubts but most likely yours proven right. Maybe because I'd prefer a more direct winger, like Juve's Chiesa (or whisper, the healthy and consistent Rashford). But i don't know who others available.
Today then.
Our set up is nothing alike?
That's some big day energy right there.
There is only today…
And yet again somebody completely missing the context. Sancho is probably ahead of Saka at the moment. Haven't seen anyone say he's not. I'm certainly not saying that.
However had Sancho been playing in that poor Arsenal side over the last 2 years he'd have nowhere near as many goals and assists as he currently does. Likewise put Saka in Dortmund's team and he'd have a lot more.
The next 48 hours are crucial...
A lot actually.
Teams at International level are usually well drilled like most teams in the PL are so they actually know how to defend and don't stand on the half way line with theirs pants around their ankles and let Bayern and Dortmund run riot like they do in the Bundesliga. What's the German for park the bus? Is it even a thing?
Sancho can be truly devastating if afforded the space and at certain moments in games he will get that space. But how many teams are going to play a highline against us with Rashford and Sancho playing? They won't will they. Why? because they know pace is our biggest weapon.
if your aunt had balls..... you can't state a fiction as fact, poor trolling buddy
Just had a look back through that account’s tweets and to be honest it’s mostly nonsense. Would be best if it’s not posted here.
I think that's Raees' account.
It can't be two small days in a row, today must be big surely
Jeeez been a slow few days. At this stage I wouldn’t even mind a few made up links just so we can debate them. I’m not counting Dieng.
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You have to also take into consideration Sancho may come here as a RWF, but a few years down the line could easily move inside or be placed on the left. He's eclectic, so not bound to any particular role, which makes him even more valuable as you're getting a multi-positional player who is chief understudy to a number of roles whilst playing whatever one he's deployed in in a given run of games.
I don't think there's a single thing wrong in having a preference for a different kind of wide player, but if they aren't an equivalent level of talent to Sancho, you have to question what the benefit then is when you have Greenwood and the two teenagers to come in over the next few years who could rival anything in the £40m-£60m bracket themselves.
Need England out ASAP so this can get done. All England fans in here who support Utd should be with me. #englandoutsanchoin
I've heard the players have a restricted area where they are allowed to mess around but the second they enter into the main building all fun must end and the character of the players must enter a level of severity. They call it the South Gate.
Well a player has to play well for their club to be selected in the first place and While there have been plenty of players that have not performed there have been plenty that have. This is representative football after all and there could be a multitude of reasons why players cannot take their form to a new stage and it would be the same for a player to play in a different league.
As Roy Keane would say, you are talking utter nonsense.
I suggest you read some of the responses in the previous pages esp from Dortmund fans. Sancho is fast but not rapid fast. His skillsets are precisely about breaking down low block teams, creating space for others and seeing passing angles when others dont.
We also had what, seven 0-0s in the league?
We're not a free-scoring side by any measure. We're a team with direct and quick attackers, ideal for counter-attacking football, and we're therefore capable of running up the score when the opponents give us space, a la Roma, Leeds or Southampton. That doesn't equal 'scoring for fun', at least not how I'd use the term.
Utter nonsense would be you can play shite for your club and still be selected to represent your country as there is no correlation.
As Catherine Tate would say....What a load of old shit!
If Sancho doesnt start next match - all we will have seen of him is a 12min cameo as England crash out in the last 16. Southgates assesment of him might be all knowing - but hes got a saka, grealish, bellingham and rashford all ahead of him. If Sancho was a £100mil talent, youd find space for him. I think his value should be going down but those jarmans seem to be pushing it up.....and we are going for it. Mental!!
But you support Cardiff City. He's not coming to you (sorry not sorry).
I see him as a LW signing and I'm quite happy about that, he's much better there and Greenwood/Diallo shouldn't be on the bench.
Weren't we the top goalscorers in the league for like 90% of the season, with City overtaking us during their excellent run of wins?
We score more than many give us credit for imo.
Are Dortmund still considering this bid that we made a while ago now?
Did we write it in Egyptian Hyroglifics? Are they trying to decipher it to see what we've actually offered? Seems to have gone very very quiet!
Did we write it in Egyptian Hyroglifics? Are they trying to decipher it to see what we've actually offered? Seems to have gone very very quiet!
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