England Squad World Cup 2022

[g7vikings]

Gareth Southgate, the nation’s sweetheart, fresh off the back of a Euro 2020 win waltzes through qualifying and leads England into another World Cup. What’s your squad?

Just a bit of fun... if we’re somehow still here in four years we can laugh at how wrong we got it. Four years is forever in football, so the wilder the shouts the better. Here is my ill informed attempt to get you going:

Pickford

Walker - Stones - Reece Oxford

TAA - Foden - Oxlade - Sessegnon

Sterling - Alli

Kane

Gomez, Maguire, Wan-Bissaka, Niles, Loftus cheek, Dier, Lookman, Rashford, Brewster all make the plane.

Also future me, if you’re reading this, I hope you’ve decorated that back room by now! And have another beer, you deserve it.

If you’re Scottish, Irish or Welsh and feeling very optimistic, feel free to have a go at your squads.

[Maskya Yoshida]

Ben Gibson and Dael Fry will co-captain England to the World Cup after winning the Premier League with Boro only 2 months prior. That's all I know.

[Olivier]

James Maddison will be in your squad by then.

Southgate won't be manager for the next WC.

[#FreeBTS]

Jadon Sancho will be our best player by this point.

[Heung-Min Pleat]

Harry will be running things in midfield

[g7vikings]

Jul 12, 2018 22:11:54 GMT #FreeBTS said:

Jadon Sancho will be our best player by this point.

Forgot about Sancho. Be very interesting to see how the bundesliga lads get on over the next few years. Suppose if they’re any good they’ll probably just end up back here.

[you give me rrrroad rrrrage]

Jul 13, 2018 9:13:21 GMT g7vikings said:

Jul 12, 2018 22:11:54 GMT #FreeBTS said:

Jadon Sancho will be our best player by this point.

Forgot about Sancho. Be very interesting to see how the bundesliga lads get on over the next few years. Suppose if they’re any good they’ll probably just end up back here.

Why? Imo the national team will only benefit from more of their players playing abroad.

[g7vikings]

I don’t disagree. Think it would do them the world of good, but money talks. Fulham are getting promoted and spending £25m on a player. Everton spent £45m on a player. Bundesliga clubs can’t compete with the PL financially, so eventually, if they’re really good, they’ll end up back imo.

[Stu]

West Ham are about to pay £50m ffs

[Olivier]

Also the fact that they are much more valuable to an English team than they are to a German/Italian/Spanish team due to squad registration rules.

[daveyposhboy]

Jul 13, 2018 9:46:59 GMT Stu said:

West Ham are about to pay £50m ffs

let us not forget, though, that they are west ham

[Paul]

Stumbled across this the other day while trying to find something else and I don’t actually think at the time that squad was such a bad shout g7vikings

Oxford is one of the few players I can think of whose career didn’t skyrocket when going over to Germany, Sessegnon probably moved too early and Chamberlain on ability alone is good enough for an England squad (definitely at this point as one of the more senior players) but hasn’t been fit at all for 4 years

Don’t think anyone could’ve seen Dele Alli’s career going the way it did and for the likes of Brewster and Lookman that was just circumstances. And Bellingham was in year 9 at this point so I doubt many of us would’ve seen him coming

Not far off either with the Euro 2020 win but unfortunately not the foresight to predict a global pandemic

[notpropaganda]

Jul 12, 2018 18:20:21 GMT g7vikings said:

Also future me, if you’re reading this, I hope you’ve decorated that back room by now! And have another beer, you deserve it.

have you decorated that back room you lazy bastid 

[#FreeBTS]

Jul 12, 2018 22:11:54 GMT #FreeBTS said:

Jadon Sancho will be our best player by this point.

I blame Man United

[luisgarciaisgod]

If Lookman had held fire a year I think there would have been clamouring for him to be a inclusion, he's ripping up Serie A