helpimonfire
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Ya never know.….i backed them at 1000-1 six months ago, suspect I’d been on the rum
2026 FIFA World Cup
- Thread starter TexanToffee
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Merit ?
Or is it because Moyes wanted him at West Ham that he has your sympathy
JobForTheMoyes
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How can you defend Maguire being left out after a good season and John Stones potentially being included? It’s farcical. Or Colwell, who has barely kicked a ball.
Drico
Player Valuation: £70m
They tend to get great performances out of good players. At least they used to. Klose is a classic example, and he wouldn't lace the boots of many of their great strikers. That's a huge credit to him, though. It also used to be the case that you could "never underestimate the Germans", but I always feel they are struggling when they don't arrive at a World Cup with a superstar. There's no Seeler, Beckenbauer, Gerd Müller, Rummenigge, or Matthäus here. I don't even think there is a Ballack.
I think you could argue that the 2002 team was perhaps their weakest - until 2022 - and that squad definitely bear out your suggestion that they get a lot out of what they have. But Ballack and Kahn were world-class. We also hear that their 1986 side wasn't great, but it did have some legendary players albeit at less-than-peak junctures in their careers (Rummenigge, Matthäüs, Völler, Brehme). Could we really say they have a world-class operator in the current squad? Lots of talent, yes, but if Nagelsmann can genuinely get a tune out of these flakey players this summer, I will be impressed. They lack...leaders. The superstar players I have mentioned were all leaders - and most of them captains. They like a spielführer here in Deutschland...
One thing they ALWAYS have is a class keeper. I worry about Neuer. He was incredible a decade ago, but I think there's always a mistake in him these days, and they haven't replaced him. Maier, Schumacher, Kahn, and the young Neuer were all the best in the world in their time. I think they are going to need Musiala and Wirtz to truly step up - and maybe young Karl will get a run and provide a bit of magic missing from the Nationalmannschaft for too long. Whether we like it or not, just as Star Wars needs Darth Vader, the World Cup needs Germany to play their natural role of terrifying pantomime villain.
duncs pigeon
Player Valuation: £40m
Maguire and Foden left out of Englands squad according to the BBC.
Think Tuchel likes certain players and sticks to them.
He's been given an extention now no matter the outcome so maybe he wants a squad that he can carry to the Euro's and Maguire wouldn't have been one of them.
JobForTheMoyes
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Tuchel is rotten. Still picks Henderson and drops perhaps the best-performing English centre half from his World Cup squad. It is seriously weird.
And picking a squad for the Euros, if this is even what he is doing, is indefensible. The World Cup
Is the biggest tournament in the sport.
Surprised that Foden has been left out.
Mind, I think there's every chance that Tuchel eats insects.
Mind, I think there's every chance that Tuchel eats insects.
Drico
Player Valuation: £70m
The Foden omission was to be expected, but if you were told in 2024 that he wouldn't make the next World Cup squad, you'd have thought he'd suffered a career-ending injury.
What a fall from grace for what I always felt was a hyped and overrated player. Talented, yes. But I always felt he lacked that underrated quality...brain.
What a fall from grace for what I always felt was a hyped and overrated player. Talented, yes. But I always felt he lacked that underrated quality...brain.
Madness
longers
Parcheggia l'autobus
Drico
Player Valuation: £70m
Henderson probably, I do hope Garner gets picked though and smashes it, very harsh on Wharton though
Ring master
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Not in it as well supposedly