Adam2003

Best manager in almost 40 years. Sad to see him go. Amazing three-year run. Thanks Dean

Really worried here. Smith was struggling but no way would have taken us down. Appoint the wrong person here and we could spiral. No idea who I want… hope they have a plan.

Well said. It’s a weird new phenomenon driven by reality tv and social media making people think they are someone ITK or deserve to be behind the scenes and it is frankly a bit pathetic.

Yep good for him. And another clean sheet for Emi for Argentina, 1-0 win over Peru.

The assist and the assist-for-the-assist for our boys…

Other way around for today’s game.

Clean sheet for Emi in a 3-0 Argentina win over an Uruguay team with Suarez, Cavani etc.

Have had this on my list to watch for ages.

Probably not the ideal thread for you then. I have little interest in internationals as a rule BUT like to see Villa players doing well and developing (hence this thread). Happy for McGinn - great record for scotland.

As soon as they are fit they will be in the team and we will be playing a different system, I wouldn’t worry.

I am not sure of this Trent. I think he knows exactly what he wants to do, he just hasn’t been able to do it yet as Bailey and Buendia - our two record signings - have both been out. So what we have been doing has been a bit of adaptation. Liverpool would look different without Salah and Mane, etc etc. Pretty sure when they are fit it’ll be a 4-5-1/4-3-3 and look a lot better.

Oh nice, I had totally missed this*. Good for Aaron. *exactly why I started this thread Hoping Ollie and Tyrone get starts for England this weekend.

I still think it’s utterly disgusting we missed him for a game and the clubs who refused to release their players didn’t get punished.

Southgate was saying about Greenwood that he and his family felt he needed to rest a little in breaks to establish himself in club football. If Kesler is playing regularly for Swindon and adapting to first team football maybe there is a touch of that.

Forgot this was technically a loan!

No Douglas Luiz in the Brazil squad - Fred still in there which seems like bad decision-making from Brazil but works out well for us. McGinn in the Scotland squad. Cant see Burkina Faso squad anywhere but they have games Friday and Monday and so I assume Bertrand Traore will be off for those.

No, no, six weeks of a teenager not getting a game is stagnation… welcome to the modern world where everything must happen immediately or it’s a failure!

Mods, feel free to delete with my apologies if inappropriate or been done before but I thought in the same way as we have the ‘loan watch’ thread it might be worth having a thread where we can keep track of which of our players are called up and how they get on on international duty? Can also maybe keep some of the ‘quarantine’ chat off some of the player threads. I find it hard to keep track of some of the U19s etc especially, or the games at odd times of the night with our South Americans etc - nice to see what’s going on when you might not think to look in a particular player thread. I’ve seen Mings and Watkins in the England squad, and I think Emi M in the Argentina squad. Ings and Emi B miss out respectively. Who else is off on duty after this weekend?

Even before that it’s hopefully a big confidence boost ahead of this weekend.

It’s all about clicks.

Unlucky to miss the England squad. At least Watkins is in.

I’d have him as captain if Tyrone was out. But then as a type that I realise a good thing now is we have quite a few contenders/leaders.

I don’t think we will be anywhere near 5th. Think 8th-10th is the target for improvement on last season. Mind you I don’t think Spurs will be anywhere near 5th either.

This would be my instinctive reply as well, but out of interest who in their side do you think would get in ours? I think Kane, Son, Reguilon. That’s it. I don’t want to be overconfident because… well… it’s Spurs and they have been better than us for 10+ years… but I look at their team and I don’t see the talent I would expect. I’m sensing a draw because they can’t be as bad as I think they are…

Sustainable yea, but in terms of ‘slow’ it’s worth remembering that our improvement under Smith has been more/faster than any other team in the top two divisions.