The Football Thread - 17/18 Season

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Goatseye said:
I don't understand what does Rooney do in the midfield. Roy could've had Dier as a DM, an MC and an attacking midfielder to open up teams like Iceland. Rooney is not capable of find space behind the defense line for the wingers.

I don't understand what does Rooney do on your team at all, he's only pulling you back. Still, the painful truth is that English players are only average at best and your keepers are terrible as always. I mean, how many English players are successful outside of Premiership? Not a single one? Huh. That should give you a clue on the real value of your players, if they can't find a place without the "local boy" handicap. And it's not like your clubs are that good either. Premiership is the weakest it's been my whole life. I remember it being the best and most exciting league in the World, now even the second place is highly debatable. If you take all of this into consideration, you get a team that deserves exactly what England gets.

Honestly, don't ever get hyped about the English team, until you have players playing in top foreign clubs.

 

PS. I did some research. Since you won the World Cup, you've advanced to the quarterfinals or above 14 times (sidenote: Euro didn't use to have quarterfinals at all for quite some time). Out of those 14 times, you've made it to the semis only... 3 times! This includes times when you automatically got there out of the group... Remarkable consistency, which should also tame your expectations.