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Joined: May 2012
Posts: 3,661
Under 23 Player
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Under 23 Player
Joined: May 2012
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Why drag a young 19yr old lad to Russia and not give him a chance in the 3rd place match.
Instead Southgate played Jones, hardly the future and the same English players that tonked in Russia.
Would have done TAA the world of good to play in that game.
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Joined: Mar 2018
Posts: 65
Under 16 Player
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Under 16 Player
Joined: Mar 2018
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think a good rest would have done him more good tbh
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Joined: Mar 2016
Posts: 6,054
1st Team Squad
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1st Team Squad
Joined: Mar 2016
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Yeah, abit pointless taking him and not giving him any game time.
I'm guessing Klopp won't be happy.
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Joined: Dec 2016
Posts: 54
Under 16 Player
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Under 16 Player
Joined: Dec 2016
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No doubt many the players ego's got a bit too big. The reports and pics between the Sweden and Belgium games relayed the impression that the team were thinking of the final already, which let's face it most of us were, ' it's in the stars' and all that non-logical stuff. That kid would have witnessed the bullishness and perhaps seen those he looks up to becoming overconfident and a bit too cute, then watched the balloon burst and the massive come down. Mentally, he will be wiser how to handle such situations - that's of course if his career does go as expected, which is also something that can't be taken for granted.
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Joined: Mar 2018
Posts: 65
Under 16 Player
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Under 16 Player
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played well in the 1st belgium dead rubber, tell u what though, sterling was [oops], lol
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Joined: Mar 2011
Posts: 8,595
1st Team Squad
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1st Team Squad
Joined: Mar 2011
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played well in the 1st belgium dead rubber, tell u what though, sterling was [oops], lol Yeah he was shiit, and I doubt we'll see a lot of him for City next season, if they want to keep their crown, all he has to his game is speed and we all know how long that lasts.
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Joined: Jul 2010
Posts: 4,077
Under 23 Player
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Under 23 Player
Joined: Jul 2010
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Sterling wasn't as bad as people make out. He missed sitters but Kane missed more he can only score from 12 yards. Alli was garbage
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Joined: Oct 2009
Posts: 27,628
Liverpool Legend
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Liverpool Legend
Joined: Oct 2009
Posts: 27,628 |
I agree a lot of the gloss has gone off englands achievement of getting to the semi finals. However how many times do we come back from a major tournament wanting to KEEP our manager? And yes Trent should have been given a go against Belgium he is certaintly good enough and as a Liverpool fan I am disappointment he did not get that experience of a game of that nature which we would have benefited from.
IF YOU WANT TO BE HEARD SPEAK SOFTLY - BOB PAISLEY
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Joined: Feb 2009
Posts: 845
Under 18 Player
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Under 18 Player
Joined: Feb 2009
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Good experience for TAA and all positives for Liverpool, he'll hit the ground running for us in August. I also thought Sterling was poor, no goal threat, gave the ball away a lot n struggled to pass his markers, a different player to the one that plays at city for sure, likewise Dele Alli.
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Joined: Jan 2010
Posts: 22,926
Liverpool Legend
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Liverpool Legend
Joined: Jan 2010
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It will be interesting to see if there is any sort of World Cup hangover for players going into the new season, in the past it's been notorious especially with not as much time to recover before they are into pre season games....
From a Liverpool point of view I think it might of been an idea to taylor the games and traveling...maybe instead of going to far flung places all over the world for games against Sunday League opposition maybe stay local and play games in this country or maybe Scandinavia just because of the World Cup... Where is Everton travelling for pre season?
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