Everton and the England team

[Bruce Wayne]

With Cleverley seemingly on board, and hopefully Lennon to follow, we could have 8 of our first team with England honours next season, totaling 170 caps between them.

Ok, only four of those are likely to feature for England next season, but still, I can't recall a time when we've had so many in the squad.

Sign of our progress or the falling standards of the England team?

 

[Goat]

In your face City and Chelsea.

 

[ilikecheese]

Sign of our progress or the falling standards of the England team?

It's the latter mostly.

 

[Prevenger17]

England are crap. Extrapolate from that fact what you will.

 

[toffeejack]

England are crap. Extrapolate from that fact what you will.

this basically. the squad is a bit average, not really the achievement it would have been 10 years ago for us.

 

[Dithering Dougie]

As long as we keep England's 2 best prospects here along with Jags and Baines I'm not to bothered about the rest to be honest.

 

[toffeejack]

..but it's good news for the quota. every team has to fill it - if we're filling it with internationals then we're filling our quota with the best available so to speak.

 

[Goat]

Whatever the question, you cant go wrong with the answer John Stones.

 

[ilikecheese]

Beyond the England internationals, we have loads of other internationals as well, so that could be a sign of progress.

 

[Khalekan]

With Cleverley seemingly on board, and hopefully Lennon to follow, we could have 8 of our first team with England honours next season, totaling 170 caps between them.

Ok, only four of those are likely to feature for England next season, but still, I can't recall a time when we've had so many in the squad.

Sign of our progress or the falling standards of the England team?

Well, the two names you mention suggest it is a sign of the falling standard of the England team.

Thirty years ago we had Reid, Stevens, Steven, Lineker and Bracewell amassing England caps in a team which reached the World Cup quarter finals.

Today we have Cleverly and Lennon

And even our good England players, Baines, Barkley and Jags pale in comparison with the class of '85.

 

[Khalekan]

Now.....if we had four or five players with nearly 200 Spanish or German caps between the we would really be in business

 

[Huyton Layne]

England seems to have issues producing anything besides good defenders and midfielders that can't perform on the international stage.

 

[sageyefc]

England fc.

We can be the new west ham,

 

[bluemangroup]

Not many English posters in this thread.

Vote UKIP

 

[Nymzee]

We're a pretty decent team for representing the United Kingdom; Barkley, Stones, Baines, Jags England internationals, Barry former, Osman once, Garbutt/Ledson etc in the youth teams. Naismith for Scotland. McGeady, Gibson, Coleman & McCarthy for Ireland (I know they're not GB). I think if they ever upped the quote we'd be one of a few teams in the prem who wouldn't struggle.