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    Gareth Southgate

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    I see people criticising England fans / pundits for suddenly being very harsh on Southgate, and while stuff like throwing pints is obviously completely wrong, this kind of backlash is what you get when you gaslight people for four years, insisting that the turgid football they're watching is actually perfectly acceptable and that the team is getting better. And then they turn up six years into your tenure looking worse than ever despite having the best squad. The mass awakening isn't pretty, but it's what you get when you suppress valid, well-intentioned criticism for years and fail to make any meaningful improvements.

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    Gareth Southgate

    in Other Football

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    This tournament is proving right all of us who have said since about 2020 that Southgate is just not good enough and England's progress is largely down to favourable draws. I didn't expect to be vindicated so thoroughly though. This current squad is better than the last three tournaments under him and somehow we look worse than ever. It's truly impressive.

    It's sort of nice to (barring one of the biggest turnarounds in form in history) be having the last laugh over people who have for years called us spoilt, ungrateful, whiners, unreasonable perfectionists, whatever, but it's an entirely pyrrhic victory because this group of players performing this badly on the world stage is, in footballing terms, tragic.

    For a few brief moments Southgate fixed the England national team culture, but then replaced it with his own different but equally flawed mentalities. He has replaced obnoxious entitlement not with humble grit and determination, but an exasperated embarrassment at any hint of aspirations or standards. Just as quickly as we saw a disconnected, disinterested team become one full of pride and togetherness, it has morphed again into an excuse-ridden, blame-shifting, overly-defensive unit. 

    In the last analysis, even Southgate's cultural revolution will turn out to have been swapping one set of poor attributes for another as a result of his own stubborn refusal at self-examination or humility.

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    Aston Villa Kits and Merchandise 24/25

    in Villa Talk

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    7 minutes ago, mrchnry said:

    I'm so bored of claret body and blue sleeves every year. It was Randy that came in and said it should be that as standard and we've deviated from it once in 20 years. 

    And the kit that did break from that was one of our best this century

    Jhon Durán

    in Villa Talk

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    He doesn't seem like an Emery player, and we have to go all in on Emery. £42m is good money, we need to sell some players at some point and there's simply no one else in the squad we could get that money for who would be a smaller overall loss.

    Ezri Konsa

    in Villa Talk

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    I think he'll be one of the 7 to not make the final squad, but also not the worst thing in the world if he gets more time to rest and recover over the summer after a gruelling season

    Emiliano Martínez

    in Villa Talk

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    https://www.instagram.com/p/C7Ck1g2L5JZ/

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    💣🧬::// Emi Martinez had an agreement in place with villa where he’d be allowed to go to the olympics IF villa qualified for the champs league [fernando czyz]🥇

    🔁 it’s Martinez desire to represent Argentina in the copa America + Olympics this summer

    🔁 if Martinez were to go he would miss all of #avfc pre season + potentially the first premier league game

    🔁 the copa america is from June 10th - July 10th + the Olympics starts on the 26th July
     

     

    Champions League 2024/25

    in Villa Talk

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    It's terribly exciting to think how well we could do next season if we manage to avoid any more season-long injuries to key players, or indeed any lengthy absences at all really.

    How does it look for that fifth CL spot next season too? It's going to be a competitive league, if we're able to progress far in a cup and even get into the knockout rounds of the CL, it would be nice to have slightly less pressure in the league.

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