kennyrester said:
The Fury said:
A few but any right winger does that. Silva for Man City was great last season, for msot of it yet there was this patch around March/April when he did nothing, no goals, no assists, yet no one moans at him. Walcott scored more goals than Silva.
My consistancy thing was based on style of play. There was this period for some reason arsenal fans were booing him, yet he was still putting in good balls and getting ahead of the defence against a keeper and defender with nothing to do with it other than shoot which is saved. He's not a natural striker so he looks for the Van Persies to pass to and finish in style. He shut the booing fans up by setting one goal up and scoring 2 in a game yet they still don't respect him. If he was at Saints or anywhere else he'd be the best on the team.
He's still better than Milner. We won't win the tournament by not playing our best players.
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Although I agree that he's a better player than Milner I don't think he's good enough to overhaul the teams tactics around his inclusion. As someone else pointed out Milner is better at tracking back which is obviously very important to Hodgson. I think the idea that the "best" players need to be picked has been very damaging to England in the past and credit has to go to Hodgson for not trying to fit Gerrard and Lampard into the same team or any of that nonsense that other England managers have persisted in. I know it's a cliché but the manager needs to pick the best team, not the 11 best individuals.
And as for your other points the Arsenal fans booed Walcott because they're the worst fans in the world , and David Silva is a far, far superior player to Walcott.
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The only reason Milner was needed to track back was because of the poor choice in rightback. A good right back should be able to cover themselves, some like Richards would have done that, strong powerful and fast. We don't have that problem on the left as we have Cole. Surely the idea of being an international manage is to pick the best players you have and form them into a team, else it would be better to pick 11 players from a full English team as they already are one.
Silva is a better player, give Walcott 3 more year (he's only 23) and he might be one of the best in the world. But he still scored more goals then one of the best players in the world... bad season for Silva?
