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I think if Phillips continues to struggle with injury then JWP will get game time in the nations league and it will be in his hands to show he is a better option.

Yeah we had a very strong defence back then, luckily we won't be competing against old England squads, we'll be up against other countries. When it comes to other countries I can't think of three countries who have better defence to pick from. Therefore saying our defence is poor is pretty inaccurate.

He did provide an assist against Croatia, which was impressive, but it was one of 5 assists for club and country since being promoted to the prem in 2020. In that time JWP has provided over three times as many. I thought he did OK in the group stages, with the exception of the Scotland game, but against tougher opposition I think he slowed us down. It didn't matter too much as Sterling and our other forwards were very good but would like to see a real box to box mid instead rather than a converted DM, especially since our country has some class box to box mids in JWP, Bellingham, Henderson etc.

A lot of this is silly, but also off topic so probably best we leave it here.

That's annoying. Lucky it's late in the season and he can recover over the summer. If the club are looking to sell hope this doesn't hurt his value.

We have developed Mane and Tadic in his position as a club and Ralph has developed a number of other promising players both here and at RBL. Maybe we can offer more progression as a player than Everton, West Ham, and Leicester. That coupled with wanting to play in the prem. I think we are an incredibly appealing side to young players now, looking at a top half finish giving youngsters regular minutes and not standing in their way when they want to move to greener pastures.

We are on a football forum bud, none of us have qualifications to make our judgements. We are all just offering our opinions. When you said Ralph was worse at organising a defence than the manager of San Marino or any other one of your takes it wasn't off the back of your 2 year spell managing AC Milan was it?

Doubt I'd do great, I have no professional experience. His achievements have been impressive but you have to question how much of that is having the best available pool of players in world football (maybe outside of France). Our quality and depth of quality is just elite right now.

Mount is, Bellingham and Gallagher are most certainly not. Mount Rice JWP is our best midfield in my opinion. JWP creates chances at a rate that only Grealish and Alexander-Arnold compete with in this team, and both should also be starting imo. I agree though, Phillips will likely get the nod and it will be alongside TAA not starting, Tomori not getting called up, Mings being in the team, and Pickford starting as Southgates more notable errors.

Our defence is fine. Stones, Trent, Walker, James are all regular starters for the three best teams in the world, Maguire and Shaw are champions league level players who were up for player of the tournament in the euros. Add to that Trippier, White, Tomori, KWP, Lampety, Konsa and any number of players who would walk into most international sides and won't even get called up most likely we should have plenty to build a good defence. We don't need three at the back and two DMs. Southgate himself noticed this and played a 433 asking Phillips to push up into a more advanced role in a number of games. A role JWP would have been undeniably better at but Southgate didn't bother to bring him because he wanted too many fullbacks and CBs and to bring two players who weren't even fit to play.

Happens, problem is when some posters get away with starting a new account after getting banned and coming straight back and calling other posters "c*nts" and saying they have disorders and are still welcomed to post here it creates an environment.

It's a team game, saying we did well so every player is the best one available is poor logic. We could have improved that starting 11 in a number of places.

Booing Maguire is utterly embarrassing and the sort of club first mentality that held us back all through the 2000s. When he has that England shirt on he is an England player and we should get behind him.

Phillips wasn't fantastic, he was mildly combative and pundits pissed themselves to congratulate him. He was super negative going forwards, making very little and slowing our attack hugely. JWP would play his role 10 times better as he can actually create from deep. He's third in the league for chance creation behind Bruno and Trent. If you'd pick Gallagher over JWP you are mental. JWP is miles ahead of him, and Henderson. Gallagher had had like half a good season ever. JWP has 26 goal contributions since the start of last season, more than every English mid including Mount and Grealish. He should be walking on to the plane.

Yeah that's fair, Bellingham over Mount is reasonable. Mount was very good for England though and I am reticent to drop him after a strong tournament because his club team no longer play a formation that facilitates him so well.

JWP Rice Mount is Englands best midfield when playing defensively and Bellingham, Rice, Mount when we need to attack more. JWP should be on the plane over the likes of Phillips and Henderson comfortably as should Bellingham.

Indeed.

Getting Livramento for £5m was one of our best signings for the money in recent years, but if we get this guy for free then it'll be pretty comparable imo, wages depending as Tino is on very little. I wouldn't use "biblical" as I am not a religious man, maybe phenomenal. Still needs to get over the line though.

Tete looked fantastic in Shakhtar's win against Real Madrid last season. Was only 20 at the time.

To be honest I don't mind the limerics, even though they are mostly not great. I didn't mind responding to these guys in general when it was just chatting about football even if it did get a bit heated occassionally. Unfortunately one guy took it too far in my eyes by implying that me having a different footballing opinion to him means I have a "disorder", which I found thoroughly disrespectful and to be honest really sapped my enthusiasm for continuing to engage in these conversations. I will keep posting because I do like it on here, but honestly shit like that really does make me think twice about bothering to log in. Sometimes you got to remember you are talking to people on here and there is a point where you have to have a think about your actions and whether "well he had a different opinion on a football player to me and refused to back down and agree with me" is really a decent excuse to act like a bellend.

Look, it's all fun and games to have a chat on an internet forum and sometimes things will get heated but there is no need to be a prick. Last time we spoke before your ban I suggested we bury the hatchet and you called me a c*nt, which was why the ban happened. I thought I wouldn't bother talking to you for a while but thought, we all have hard days where we act rash so decided to keep engaging. I have people close to me who struggle with the sort of disorders you are eluding to and to use it as a point in an argument about Adam fucking Armstrongs finishing ability is completely unnacceptable to me.

I never said that, I said you were trying to work out whether to claim to be a high flying pro or to be honest and to lose credibility. Something I think you are still mulling over.

It's because you are saying your same point again, but with "hey, I'm the same when I'm on the other side of it" and like, good for you being consistent, doesn't mean anything to me though. I too am consistent in my point of view, I don't play much NFL but if I had someone try to tell me that they are an expert on NFL despite demonstrably not knowing what they are talking about because the were this close to going pro before the did their knee I too would say they were chatting shite.

That doesn't sound like you.

There is no need to be like this. You should be able to have a conversation on a football forum without saying shit like this.