SaintPowelly wrote:The thing is Pob, you bring up technically gifted players, the most technically gifted player in the England squad is Adam Lallana, and he sits on the bench to accommodate Danny Welbeck, who is a sub at Man United. NO-ONE with a half functioning footballing brain can justify Danny Welbeck playing, yet he does,because he plays for a "big club" ( and I use the term "plays" lightly ), until we eradicate this problem from the game, England will NEVER advance.
Our views are pretty close if your above point is anything to go by, you just see it as a problem with individual selection, I think the problem is much deeper.
We see on these boards often about Welbeck, there are quite a few people on hear, on TV, in the press, that like him.... that think he offers the team something and wanted him there.
What does that say about the footballing culture of your country when you shove a guy on the left wing with no touch, no passing ability, no crossing ability, no ability to run at defenders and beat them, no close control, and who cant even score goals alongside world class players at his club side, playing up top?
In return, in a typical English way, he isn't rubbish in people's eyes because he works hard, or some other "unrelated to flair" type argument. He got thumbs up in the Italy game for making some tackles, but who the hell picks a winger in a 4-2-2-1-2 system on their ability to press? Yeah, its a decent quality, but if the guy cant hit a barn door and offers less going forward then Maradona does at 55 having too many pies and lines of coke, he isn't a player who should be getting near the team.
Basic technical ability should be the corner stone of your team. Welbeck may win 10 tackles over Lallana, but he also loses the ball 20 times a game more by his no existent ball control, he shite passing, or his "don't clear first man crosses".
there isn't any players in England with that technical ability though because we accept players like Welbeck can make it in the English leagues without it. He wouldn't have made Spanish League three with his rapist touch