Eth in or out? May edition

Originally Posted by Parlabane

Southgate is beige,looks beige, plays beige football the complete opposite of what Manchester United should be about

but eth is what United should be.

We finished the season with a negative goal difference and lost 1/3 of the games we played!

Originally Posted by marlo

but eth is what United should be.

We finished the season with a negative goal difference and lost 1/3 of the games we played!

No £#%&!ing way!!!

Originally Posted by Patty_b

Experienced, respected (in the game at least), knows the league, knows some of the squad...

He's been brave enough to make big decisions in his squad selections in the past, binning off older experienced players and taking a risk with young players that are performing well domestically.

People like to think he's overly defensive, but in the 2022 World Cup England scored the third most goals in the tournament behind France and Argentina (who both played two more games), and outscoring the Dutch, Brazil, Portugal, Germany and Spain.

Southgate would be the worst possible choice.
In Euro 2020 England were 4th highest scorers with 2 goals splitting the top 4.

In the 2018 World Cup we were again 4th highest scorers, scoring more than Brazil, Argentina, Spain and Portugal.

In the three major tournaments under Southgate England have reached a World Cup Semi final, England's first ever Euro's final and a World Cup quarter final.

The real question is why not? Other than the man having the name 'Gareth Southgate' and looking like Nigel Thornberry's estranged brother.

On the ‘moving players on’ part. It’s most probably a lot easier to do that in international football than it is in club football, so I’m not sure that’s a positive. You literally don’t pick them for the squad and don’t have ever see them again, not exactly difficult imo.

If England don’t win the euros this summer his time there should be seen as a massive failure, considering the supposed quality of players he’s been able to select from.

Originally Posted by AK14

On the ‘moving players on’ part. It’s most probably a lot easier to do that in international football than it is in club football, so I’m not sure that’s a positive. You literally don’t pick them for the squad and don’t have ever see them again, not exactly difficult imo.

pretty sure that's what 10h did with sancho.

Originally Posted by jem

pretty sure that's what 10h did with sancho.

Yeah fair enough