If Southgate is sensible he’ll try (but fail) to make some amalgam of Man City & Spurs work. I have to agree re Walker. Has Fabian Delph done enough? I suspect Ashley Young may go
Stones & Dier will go aswell. Where’s Klyne up to fitness wise? It may be too late for him.
I would also so see how Danny Rose pans out he was quite useful before he fell out of favour. Don’t forget Bertrand.
Stones is not playing for City that should be a concern.
We have a 17 yo playing for us that we acquired from Exeter name of Ampadu that could have played for England but Wales snapped him up.
He is going to be some player.
I would also take Ryan Sessegnon of Fulham for the experience.
I likes a bit of football, but I am struggling to give a fuck about the world cup. It is going to be dull shit football by England and they may just get out of the group if they are lucky.
We are supposed to spend ages discussing the pros and cons of taking player x or player y, then shake our heads in astonishment when the manager opts for player z instead.
Following that, we build ourselves up into a frenzy of ridiculously misplaced optimism (I really think we could actually win it this year etc etc), before rolling our eyes in that familiar way when England tank against a weakened Mongolia before going out in a nail biter against some Scandinavian postmen.
You can’t just cut straight to the chase and conclude that we will be shit - takes all the fun out of it.
There’s no chance of Clyne getting in, he hasn’t played a single competitive minute this season. Gomez will probably get the nod as he can provide cover for RB and CB.
It looks like Southgate will play with 3 CBs anyway.
He’ll probably take Smalling too. He has games like the one yesterday where he just defends & does ok but anything that involves playing the ball out usually ends with some kind of ricket at some point.