Quote Originally Posted by sinkov View Post
Yes quite possibly mon ami, but because of the manager, not the players. When you have a manager, so afraid of his own shadow, that he sets up his team with 7 defenders to take on the might of Iceland, you have a manager who will win nothing, whatever the quality of the players he has available.

The difference between what you say about Grealish in posts 11 and 15 shows that you are on one of your weekend fishing expeditions, so I'm not biting and not taking you at all seriously. There's an old cliché 'form is temporary, class is permanent', in his dumping of Grealish and Maddison it seems Gareth has never heard of it, or forgotten all about it, and it's already come back to bite him on the bum, even before they've got on the plane to Germany. He seems to attach some importance, as do several journos, to the fact that Grealish has not started a lot for City recently, and in one recent big game Doku was preferred to him as a sub. Fair enough, but City have one of the strongest squads in world football and Doku is a world class winger, to have dropped down the pecking order at City does not mean you're suddenly not good enough to even be on the bench for England, but Gareth, bless him, thinks it does.
I think we can both agree mon ami, Grealish should be on the 'plane to Germany and Southgate shouldn't.

I'm going to have to try a different bait.

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