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StirlingBlue wrote: ↑Wed Jan 14, 2026 10:32 pm Top five similar players includes Beto at one and Barry at five

The list did also include Jamie Vardy, Igor Jesus, Patrick Schick and Olivier Giroud who are all wildly different players, so it's tough to really take it too seriously...

Now onto Osimhen and Lookman dismantling the hosts (hopefully).

Egypt have played this anti-football all tournament.

Next summer will be the time to start judging the new recruitment set-up, as others have said.

Last summer was a needs must, get bodies in kind of operation (and we still managed to get some talented young players in).

We'll see what they do when they've had some time to plan their recruitment.

weimaranerblues wrote: ↑Wed Jan 14, 2026 5:33 pm 0-0. 30mins gone

Egypt are crap. Just running around kicking people and playing Dycheball.

Shogun wrote: ↑Mon Jan 12, 2026 3:39 pm Sure they're taller than in years gone by generally but they don't have to be massive lumps to be a fullback these days. The attacking fullback is still very much alive.

Bluedylan1 wrote: ↑Mon Jan 12, 2026 2:40 pm So you can still have flying full-backs who overlap, but they need to be tall and relatively powerful.

Krafth never plays, Trippier is 5ft 8" and Lewis Hall is 5ft 10" But yeah it's rare to have small or smallish full backs these days.. but I'd definitely prefer a Hall to a Burn. Yeah there are definitely exceptions. Players like Cucurella and Gusto are so good at their position that the l...

Who are the massive full backs/CBs at the likes of City, Chelsea, Spurs, Newcastle, etc then? Arsenal basically play with a backline of CBs but it isn't prevalent through the league. For City Nico O'Reilly is 6ft 4, Nunes is 6ft. Gvardiol is 6ft 1. Chelsea, I agree they are a bit of an anomaly as t...

I think the issue is that the Premier League is now the land of the giants. Even the majority of the tekky players are massive. Managers just don't feel like you can have full-backs who are on the smaller side, because they will be targeted with big forwards on far post crosses. So you can still hav...

Nigeria are the best team in the tournament.

Well the Irish were neutral in WW2, and they sent a letter of condolence to Germany when Hitler died...so....

Egypt-Ivory Coast has been a cracker.

I think if we'd had more players available, and a bigger squad generally, he'd already by playing for another club.

One of the first ones out of the door in the summer.

Moyes said some nice words about him in the post-match, but reiterated he's not ready to play left-back physically in the Prem at the moment.

Everyone keeps saying ''he should be playing young players and developing them more'' but we're not in a comfortable enough position to do that. We've come off multiple relegation threatened seasons, and if we'd lost 3 games that we'd won this season (which is significantly more likely playing inexp...