England have had nine players drop out of their squad ahead of their matches against Greece and the Republic of Ireland. Captain Harry Kane is not impressed speaking out about the importance of playing for the national team.
So is Kane right? Outside of major tournaments is international football respected?
Ayo is joined by Phil Hay and Jack Pitt-Brooke, plus we’ll hear from Nick Miller and Chris Waugh.
00:00:00 Intro
00:00:35 Harry Kane’s recent comments
00:03:52 The timing of the absence’s
00:07:26 Feelings towards the Nations League
00:10:04 Hall & Livramento’s call up
00:14:17 Morgan Rogers call up
00:19:30 Eddie Howe’s development for Hall
00:21:24 The decisions made by clubs
00:24:01 Chris Wood’s international duties
00:27:40 FIFA’s calendar
00:30:52 Final comments
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20 Comments
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Kane gets a winter break. The others don't. These international games are complete bullshit anyway. The more people pull out the better. Sends a message imo
3 international breaks between September and November is ridiculous. I can understand players wanting to drop out.
If anything, it's selfish to play for England when you're not fully fit. Kane does it all the time and because he's the captain he won't be dropped and he's constantly fucking England over. His arrogance cost us the euros
Nearly all the players are legitimatly injured though.
Rice has a broken toe. Saka has literally been injured for going on a fucking year now. Trent went off after 25 minutes with a hamstring and Ramsdale has a broken finger. Grealish I'm not sure, but given that his not exactly playing alot at City, theres no reason for him to skip it if his isn't injured.
So that basically just leaves Foden, Colwill and Palmer who… are apparently injured despite not appearing to be in thier last game (I think Palmer had an issus going into the Arsenal game but he played the full match with no issue).
City I suspect may have just gone fuck off. Pep probably needs to work with the squad to get things back on track (and overplaying has already arguably lost them Rodri, which is probably a big reason why they are suddenly in a bit of rut). Chelsea may be in a similar, but different boat, with the team performing far better then most were expecting, they probably just don't want to risk key members of thier squad in glorified friendlies. Honestly, I'd rather have a situation where teams on mass did this, then the usual where you get one or two teams that do it and then the teams that don't suffer for it. Does anyone realy care about these glorified friendlies, especially when its under a lame duck manager.
Ridiculous for Carsley to complain about the lack of natural left backs in the England set up when Tyrick Mitchell has been playing premier league football at a decent standard week in, week out for years now.
I like how at no point of this podcast no one mentioned why the hell we have 3-4 international breaks in mid November ?
This guy is a serial bottle job. Can't take him seriously. Not captain material. Airing out fellow players like that
Cant stand the Nations League
Rice odergaard and saka actually have injuries…
Oh no… players are dropping out of unnecessary friendly's in the middle of an already clogged season to rest and heal up… who tf cares… when it starts happening during major tournaments then we can talk…
Players get paid more by their clubs. These are not just people but assets to companies. People within clubs will be urging players to sit it out if potentially injured because the financial loses can be huge
Yes if he has read every medical report and can write a dissertation on the inability or the ability for each player to be available for 90 minutes and the type of injury or personal situation. Once he has done that analysis and summarized which I am sure he is has it is absolutely right. What happened when phil foden left the euros for the birth of a baby?
No one cares. Micky mouse matches.
I read that 7 of the 9 players were injured, didn’t complete their last games or coming back from injury. Only 2 players were fully fit and finished their games prior to their call-ups.
Goodluck to Jack, hopefully you don’t get severe depression writing about these kind of stories for the England team as it is so boring…you guys have a left back discussion once every 2 months or so?…
The FA told Carsley that he had the three international windows this autumn. I think it's actually a good thing they didn't reneg on this and stuck to their word. we don't know what contractual arangments and cost of not sticking to it are, can't be too high given Carsley was already the U21 coach (my organisatoin would call this a 'development opportunity' and not provide any additional salary!), so giving them the benefit of the doubt it was a moral choice, although the cynic in me thinks it was probably a financial one.
Without your club there is no country, when you are unpopular in the media your country drops you your club is less likely too.
Club > country’s
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If players drop out without injury, they should never be picked again. If they dont want to play, there's plenty that will.