I hate the hair plugged douchebag to be quite honest....mostly because he plays for the Scum and also because he has been quite good for a long time.


England has a lot of quality players but they never mesh well together. Gerrard and Lampard couldn't fit on the same pitch together, both were very talented but either due to manager or tactics or whatever, they didn't play well together and that's what I see when I look at England. I see a starting 11 with loads of talent, but they play as individuals, their styles don't compliment each other.

England is at a crossroads, the days of Gerrard, Lampard, Terry, Beckham, Joe Cole, it's all over and done with and what's even better is you're done with Big Sam too! You get the opportunity for a new manager to come in with no ties to anyone, no players should be locked in for a call up to the squad so the new gaffer can build a TEAM on his own and that's what you need to have more success (just my take on it again so obviously not the gospel).

Now if a manager was to come in and say "How do I get the best out of Wayne Rooney?" (which is quite a different question than "How do I get England to be successful?" so it can have quite a different answer) then I'd say you have to figure out what role Rooney is best suited for and what formation that would then force you into playing. Rooney is a striker but his pace isn't what it used to be and his strength was never the best so up front by his lonesome in a 451 doesn't cut it for me...now in a front 3 a true front 3 not with "wingers" but with other forwards like Sturridge and Welbeck he could do alright as those players are all good with the ball at their feet and if they would seamlessly rotate positions they could really confuse defenders. I am not certain why, but Rooney is often dropped deeper which to me is like trying to get a horse to climb a tree, I think the deepest he should get dropped is CF/Second Striker where he's just ahead of attacking midfielders and not forced to be a box-to-box player because that doesn't play to his strengths.

If I was managing England I'd roll out something like this 11
ST: Kane/Vardy
CF: Rooney
LW: Sterling RW: Sturridge/Welbeck
CM: Henderson, Alli/Barkley
LB: Shaw CB: Stones, Smalling RB: Clyne
GK: Hart

But the problem with that is that again most Premier League clubs don't play a 4411/442 so the players aren't the most used to that and it's not as if you could mold that into a 433 that would actually work either unless you put Rooney at Striker in which case I'd bring in Lallana at CF and drop him a little further back to CAM for that 451 and in the past that just hasn't worked. I think Rooney is a great player, he's had a bit of a rough season so far, but for the National team I think he's the square peg and attempting to force him into the side does a disservice to the rest of the team....it's a shame really but that kind of thing happens to players all the time.