It's not that Gordon and Madueke are dull, it's that Tuchel's system suppresses creativity and lacks sustenance. That's why Rashford and Saka are just as toothless here.
Granit Xhaka is a gigantic upgrade on Enzo Fernandez in terms of experience, composure, discipline, and culture fit. A midfield pairing of him and Caicedo can move mountains, ball to feet with every transition and Cole Palmer will be back to homicidal form #cfc
@umirf1 Tuchel's non negotiable is Pace and Power, he wants peak athletes who whip it in with ferocity, and headless sprinters who chase the ball with hunger in their eyes, he does not have patience for players who take shortcuts or slow the game down
Reece James is 33 year old Neymar and his PSG era was half a season out of position under Tuchel as an out and out winger.
DJed Spence is that Rayan fella, no one knows why he's getting looks in the tram give the club he plays for, but he's inevitably going to a top team soon
@FAmmiranteTFJ It's winnable up until France, Spain and Belgium won't be able to handle the pressing, France also has weaknesses at the back that could cost them against the USA but Mbappe, Dembele, and Olise will more than make up for it with a thrashing. It really depends though
@TouchlineX The truth is he's going to dominate the Spanish league and torch up El Classico like an English Valverde, but in the international context, he's not that guy. Much like Valverde, who's great in a 50 game season but isn't the difference maker in a vacuum
A year ago, when assessing potential successors to Gareth Southgate for the England job, I wouldn't have considered Graham Potter among the "best available English managers" but he certainly is a better choice than Tuchel now, Liam Rosenior probably is too.
It's a bit of a casual mindset to think Norway's B team stands no chance against France's A team given how absolutely incredible these players are for club and country
After this World Cup is over for England I hope we never hear about Tuchel again, he's quite literally one of the worse managers in the game, and his covid CLs won't change that
New: #cfc Reece James’s World Cup could be over - if #england don’t progress to latter stages of tournament. Hamstring injury worse than thought, after he beckoned to come off late in game with Ghana, but he couldn’t because all 5 subs had been used. I’m told he doesn’t want to leave camp - wants to stay with squad and fight to be fit in hope he can still play some minutes towards end of knockout stages.
@Josephanthon@AdamSchefter@NFLPA Because it's the summer and you only need to pay the groundskeepers for a month, and the whole process of installing weather-proof grass fields cost a kings ransom.
Conversely, American football is played in the winter and these stadiums host concerts more often than games
@MUDRK10Y Rosenior shouldn't have been appointed but he also shouldn't have been sacked, when Cucurella, Enzo, Sanchez, and Fofana started downing tools they should've all been dropped and the focus should've been put on Palmer. Then at the end of the season you reevaluate
@MobyChe Makes you think, if Tuchel is willing to run Rice, James, and Anderson into the ground, he's probably not playing Saka and Rashford because he doesn't rate them