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8 hours ago, Bris Vegas said:

Saka had the French on toast at the World Cup. And he has been a key reason as to why Arsenal may win the league.

The guy is world class. 

And then IIRC Southgate subbed him off. It seemed a very strange decision at the time. 

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On 24/03/2023 at 07:49, G STAR RAM said:

Really outdated view in my opinion. Ukraine and North Macedonia will be made up of players that are playing across the top divisions in Europe. Malta I will grant you.

The reason we are still dispatching teams like Ukraine and North Macedonia is because we have a team full of quality internationals.

Maybe you should actually look where most of the players in Ukraine and North Macedonias squads are actually playing before accusing someone of having an outdated view.

North Macedonia has a benchwarmer for Napoli and a guy who never plays for Burnley in the Championship. The rest of their players are spread through leagues in the Balkans and the middle east. They are not playing in top leagues across Europe.

Ukraines squad is slightly better in that they have a couple of Prem players in the team, but again most of their players are playing in their own domestic league. The Ukrainian league does have some good teams, but they are not top tier teams and it certainly isn't one of the top leagues in Europe.

The reason we are still dispatching teams like these is because we invest a lot more money into our footballing infrastructure, because we are a lot richer. That is the only reason. 

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8 hours ago, GenBr said:

Maybe you should actually look where most of the players in Ukraine and North Macedonias squads are actually playing before accusing someone of having an outdated view.

North Macedonia has a benchwarmer for Napoli and a guy who never plays for Burnley in the Championship. The rest of their players are spread through leagues in the Balkans and the middle east. They are not playing in top leagues across Europe.

Ukraines squad is slightly better in that they have a couple of Prem players in the team, but again most of their players are playing in their own domestic league. The Ukrainian league does have some good teams, but they are not top tier teams and it certainly isn't one of the top leagues in Europe.

The reason we are still dispatching teams like these is because we invest a lot more money into our footballing infrastructure, because we are a lot richer. That is the only reason. 

Pretty pointless moaning about the manager then?

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3 hours ago, G STAR RAM said:

Pretty pointless moaning about the manager then?

Why is it? We smash minnows like Ukraine and North Macedonia because we pour billions and billions of pounds into our footballing infrastructure and they usually can't compete with such riches. Virtually anybody could take the players we have and beat a team like North Macedonia.

However when we come up against other top teams who can also pour in similar amounts of cash factors such as the management team become extremely important. They can give one team the edge over the other and when it comes to big teams in competitive matches we regularly struggle.

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10 hours ago, GenBr said:

Why is it? We smash minnows like Ukraine and North Macedonia because we pour billions and billions of pounds into our footballing infrastructure and they usually can't compete with such riches. Virtually anybody could take the players we have and beat a team like North Macedonia.

However when we come up against other top teams who can also pour in similar amounts of cash factors such as the management team become extremely important. They can give one team the edge over the other and when it comes to big teams in competitive matches we regularly struggle.

We've struggled whoever is in the dugout. As of recent I wouldn't say we have struggled. With Southgate we are getting better.

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