10-06-2024, 13:15
I don't mean to be insulting but your two best midfielders play in Italy.
Although on the ball McTominay has much to be said for him, positionally he's a nightmare. He's 6'4" but when you need a centre back no one trusts him, and when you're short a centre forward he can't even be a false nine. And in midfield he's anywhere and nowhere. He'll save you with a brilliant block, then be nowhere in sight when the opposition run straight through your middle, and when attacking he'll bang in a cracker on the odd occasion when he's not absent without leave. Whatever you/we think he is, then he isn't ....... Cries out for investigation by William Shatner.
Clarke has done wonders to get you to the Final Stages. Southgate didn't need to do wonders with England. Neither of those facts gives me any confidence in the outcome.
Although on the ball McTominay has much to be said for him, positionally he's a nightmare. He's 6'4" but when you need a centre back no one trusts him, and when you're short a centre forward he can't even be a false nine. And in midfield he's anywhere and nowhere. He'll save you with a brilliant block, then be nowhere in sight when the opposition run straight through your middle, and when attacking he'll bang in a cracker on the odd occasion when he's not absent without leave. Whatever you/we think he is, then he isn't ....... Cries out for investigation by William Shatner.
Clarke has done wonders to get you to the Final Stages. Southgate didn't need to do wonders with England. Neither of those facts gives me any confidence in the outcome.