didierforever

suprisingly wilshere does not seem to be much in hodgson's plans. i mean when u play with a 2 man mid of a 35 year old lamps and a 33 year old gerrard against montenegro and poland, that is a pretty good indication.

to be honest, the midfielders than england HAVE currently are no where near world class. lampard and gerrard are past it. baines/cole and walker/johnson are decent full backs. phile jones/GC/jagielka can make for a decent no.2. what england need is JT's leadership and defensive awesomeness. he might not be THE answer to all of england's problems but would definitely improve them greatly.

to be honest cant see any "youth players" getting a chance this season. we have a 25 man strong squad. players like essien are not going to be getting any chances/matches in PL and he is not even in CL, hence the COC matches. next season would be correct judge of our policies with "youth". mceachran, romeu (though he does not come in that category), pva, kakuta, piazon etc.

kdb takes oscar's spot? i dont wanna get into another "kdb is the next zidane" argument so i ll leave it here. so tell me who would take schurrle and willian's role. cos last time i checked we dint have youth players of that standard. the only point i can actually concede to is chalobah taking mvg's role. except for that everythin is far-fetched. we bought ba cos the sturridge situation was not working. he wanted to leave (or rather play) and we wanted to sell him (or rather stick with torres and start him every game). so ba had to be bought as his replacement. etoo was bought cos jose had seen in training that ba, torres and lukaku were not good enough to win things. hence the etoo buy.

youngsters who are deemed good enough for the first team will get a chance. how many youngsters can we actually say could have made it here matic, sinclair, stoch (not more than a squad role) and this is since 2004. we are taking decisions that are best for the team and for the youngsters. also the problem is not with the youngsters, its with the rotation manager policy that we have going on here. tell me, could RDM have risked playing a match or 2 with the yout, FSW?, AVB?. i dont see any youngsters ,unless he is absolutely exceptional, coming near the first team cos of the manager system we have here.

so let me get this straight. we should throw out the likes of mata, hazard, kdb, oscar, schurlle, willian so that there is place in the team for the likes of piazon, kakuta, boga etc. that seems like a perfectly decent request.

having strikers like sturridge and rooney would be good enough if they actually got anything/something from the mid. when your wingers are townsend/welbeck/lallana compared to muller/schurlle/ozil u know where the problem is. same goes for cleverly. but since england dont have any midfielders to make a significant difference, the only place england can shore up is its defence.

the ballon d'or is for the calender year, right? so out of the 9 playing months so far, (11 months - 2 {june and july}), messi has been injured for almost 4 months, has not done anything much in the last 3 months since the new season started but i can definitely understand him winning this award.

for england to have 0.001% chance of getting even in the semis of WC, JT needs to get out of his retirement.

dude, we play Cl on tuesday and mancs play on wed. hence the difference in the days. no need to take things out of proportion.

again??!!! seriously???

maybe. but cant see them dropping point. 2-1 with a winner after 80 minutes would be the script (as usual).

the worst thing is that united are going to leapfrog us after this week of matches despite being in "crisis" for the start of the season.

for the first time not looking forward to a match.

cabaye!!! hernanes!!! KI!!!!!!!! seriously????

next week is going to be MEGA CRITICAL. everton vs pool city vs spurs arsenal vs southampton cardiff vs united (cardiff is no easy place to go to and will be very testing for united). add to that whu vs chelsea. BIG BIG BIG week. the team has to play this round like a cup final. jose should rally us after the wba debacle.

next week is going to be MEGA CRITICAL. everton vs pool city vs spurs arsenal vs southampton cardiff vs united (cardiff is no easy place to go to and will be very testing for united). add to that whu vs chelsea. BIG BIG BIG week.

ba will be 10 times more a threat against whu at their home compared to etoo. etoo thrives when their is link up play and the game is flowing, and i am under no illusion about how the game will actually be played. it will all come down to the no. of air balls our striker has won and his hold up play. and for me, ba is way better than etoo in that aspect.

if we can be in 5-10 points' gap off the top until JAN, then we can go on our end of the season run and try to fight for the title.

not even expecting a point off this game. its in november, away from home and against a team that is physically very strong and hence our achilles heel. cech azpi iva JT bert rambo mikel schurrle mata hazard ba. 1-2 loss.

relax... its just the november curse...

full team???

line ups?

accepted. hazard is one of the best talents around. but what message does it send to others. schurrle and willian - should not be dropped after their performances against schalke , arsenal (willian) and city (schurrle) oscar - can be "rested" though i dont think he needs to be "rested". kdb and mata - deserve a chance to prove their worth especially if the vacant spot is the CAM. after watching jose's PC, i dont doubt that hazard will start but it would simply be unfair to others to see hazard get such favouritism specially since he has been no where near his own personal best or the team's best AM.

i like him. and want him to play his best. but that does not mean to be an idiot and say hazard is better than CR in LW or mikel is better than javi martinez as a CDM. there is a difference in supporting and knowing the facts and the truth. unfortunately many great personalities (like urself) dont get that. LOL... hahahaha...lol...hahah (wow, its funny writing like u).lol..hahaha