England unfortunately are going to squander this generation of talent because their manager is better suited to be a politician rather than a tactician

Imagine working for Klopp or Guardiola week after week and then going to England camp to play for a wet lettuce who relegated Middlesborough,

Southgate should have been fired after losing the final against Italy. We will never have a better chance of winning silverware than that. Literally everything fell into place for us - we were playing at Wembley, against a below average Italy team, and we even managed to steal an early goal. And despite all of this, Southgate still bottled it with his terrible in game management. He proved then and there that he will never be good enough to lead England to victory.

Heard in another clip simon saying southgate only ever reacts to what the other side does in a tactical change or substitution, and he is 💯% right

Somebody in the media ask Southgate straight , why 2 holding players ? its obvious 2 holding players are there to protect Maguire

Southgate's inept tactical awareness, idiotic team selections, idiotic squad selections, over defensive park the bus play, moronic in game management....... Southgate is one of the worst managers I've ever seen at the elite level. We have no chance with him in charge.

Whats lost here is the ambition of FA. They hired Southgate, saw him bottle Italy , then offered him a contact extension before the World Cup. If they had any real ambitions they would have done something by now, don't you think?

Southgate should probably have been shown the door after we managed just one shot - yes, ONE shot - on goal in 120 minutes of a home final. Croatia 2018, same negative, cowardly tactics. In an alternate universe, we were the world and European champions. What a waste.

A conference league manager could take that squad to the quarters or semis

I feel like the football writers and London based fans treat Southgate as a demi God. While everyone else sees him as average at best.

Southgate has never been good enough, he has nowhere near the tactical nous to deal with France, Spain etc. Despite having the players to do so.

England can't even beat Brazil's reserve team! 😂

If playing "safe" wins you nothing then why is it called "safe" when it is clearly dangerous?

A champions league team managed by a championship manager

England to win Euros? Not with Southgate in charge

The sad thing is I can honestly see him staying on even if we don't win the Euros. The mind boggles

You can’t win if you’re too afraid to lose

Nothing will change, Southgate set in his ways, proven a few times, they are on top then back foot for rest of the game.

He's already cost England so this is hardly much of a revelation.

I've said it before and I'll say it again. England will never win any major trophy as long as Harry Maguire is in defense. I'll come back to this comment in July.

Southgate doesn't manage to win. He manages to not lose.

The coach was a defender 🤷🏿‍♂️

England wouldn't win it. Gareth is a weak link, the favouritism of Maguire will cost England eventually. Portugal are just about as stacked as England in terms of quality, and they have a better coach. Germany have great playmakers, a good midfield that can dictate possession and the home crowd behind them. France are...France, Didier Deschamps is a winner.

This was an opportunity to give Braithwaite a game in defence before crucial games to see how he coped with international football

I don't get why all the media and everyone is so sure that this England team will win the euros and the only problem is Southgate...the past does not suggest England is favourite to win anything, i have no idea what this confidence is based on....

Most boxers start slowly graham 😂

Two years ago in the Qatar WC when Southgate had a VERY TALENTED player at his BEST like TAA at his disposal and he kept him on the bench. Southgate was more concerned at his defensive flaws than his CREATIVE ABILITIES. They could NOT win the Euros against an AVAERAGE Italian side at Wembley- There's NO WAY they'll win at GERMANY under Southgate.

He blew the euros against italy because he bottled it,im a scot who loves all fitba,the atmosphere at wembley that day was unbelievable and he wanted to dampen that due to only he knows why,you use that atmosphere like a tornado and blow everything oot the water,no fear,full stop!

England have already won the tournament even before it begin in the studios.

If, Southgate had Ronaldinho available to select he’d ask him to defend. Klopp needs to replace Southgate, he’d love to work with Bellingham.

play with some confidence ffs and go for it, stop cowering being afraid to lose

we always have a kind of fear of others like the germans, france, italy and now spain of them as winners with the winning mentality, i dont think any of those countries look at us in same way, they'll be thinking 'yeah england got some great players but our strength of character will see us past them they aren't winners'

Since Euro 1996, England has always found a way of immersing managerial mediocrity and/or international underachievers right at the heart of the national team. Used to be Beckham, and then Sven, then there was Wayne Rooney...now its Kane and Southgate. Euro 1996 was England's biggest chance of winning a tournament, they had the talent...and guess who ruined that? The guy who is charge now. Southgate should be nowhere near a team that wants to win something

Southgate has maguire in the back and needs players to help him. Southgate needs to drop him forever.

The fact that Foden didn't have one touch in the box for 90 minutes is concerning. All the attacking talent they have and something like that happens? I don't care that it's a friendly it was disappointing.

Time to end the Southgate experiment. Utter Tripe !! How he puts Chillwell, Gallagher and Maguire on is complete madness. So much talent he continues to put garbage on the pitch and shows no creativity. This was a very average Brazilian team that weren't worried one bit about playing this team at Wembley. We are never winning a trophy with him in charge, time to move on.

Southgate has won 4 out of 25 games against top 15 ranked teams. He's a cowardly manager with the attitude of lets not get beat. All he was as a player and manager were a guy fighting relegation. He is crushing the attack of England and that's the teams strength. If England win it will be in spite of Southgate not because of him. That wasn't a good Brazil side.

Southgate is the English Moyes

This current England squad are the biggest bottlers in international football history

Lack of bravery, managerial ability, talent, skill set, charisma...the list goes on.

England will never win anything with Southgate as manager , he and only him is the reason. Any other half competent manager would win with the talent available. Mcguire, Philips, Henderson ? no one else would give them a thought.

Why would anyone think any player would go and do in southgate's England team what they do at club lvl when they know he will sub them very quickly and probably bench them from there.... Southgate clearly has his favourites regardless of form....

James the caller is spot on.. Southgates way to cautious with his tactics with a group of players who are more than capable of just going out and play on the front foot and putting teams away.

Graeme is delusional over hyping England about winning it. what planet is this guy on, when was the last time England's midfield bossed and controlled the tempo of a game against a big hitter? England aren't good at ball retention and keeping the ball against an elite team is crucial in major competitions and its something they lack. they can't just rely on set pieces and penalties to get them through a game.

8 mins in, Souness the Scot says, “I think we’ll win the euros” 😅

We all know he is Mr SAFE and that will not change !

Argentina didn't have 5 or 6 world class players. They had 1 and he's almost retired. Italy didn't when they won the euros. Absolute nonsense from Souness

The first caller nailed it. Southgate plays a cautious mid block familiar to weaker PL teams but manages elite players used to playing a high press front foot football under world class managers.

Right at the beginning of Southgate's tenure, statistics shown that being defensive first and not cenceding whilst having most posession equalled results.

All England talk is based on how talented the players are and how good they play for their clubs. But those conditions aren't the same as for the national team. At their clubs they are nearly all coached by top coaches who understand the game so well and have a system and positions which suit them perfectly. What not enough people seem to get is, when you just look only at performances for the national team it's an entirely different story. The performance we saw vs Brazil isn't doing anything against any of the top contenders. It's also a fallacy England have the best players. They have some top players, they have alot of attacking depth, but the back line and midfield is poor. Also, France and Portugal definitely rival England for pure talent, and for France, I'd say surpass.

You probably don't need 4 or 5 world class players. Case in point, Messi was the only one in the Argentina squad at Qatar.

Agree. Southgate pedestrian and dull as ditchwater to watch. every big tournament weve been in weve managed to screw up a golden opportunity mainly due to Southgate. Croatia 1-0 up in 2018 they adjusted and we didnt react lost 2-1. Italy in the Euros scored after 2 minutes go for the game against that aging Italian side and we sat back and just gave the game away. France in the last world cup soon as we scored should have gone for the throat but again we sat back and lost momentum and Giroud scored the winner.

Brazil a very good Team ????😂😂😂😂.... Brazil sits 6th in South American world Cup qualification and are at risk of dropping to 8th ....Brazil also hasn't won in their last 4 games before England.... Brazil is so bad they sacked their manager and this was the first game for Brazil's new manager. When did this historically bad Brazil Team become "good"??? I guess anything will be said to justify England's mediocrity.

That's a very fast talker

Gareth is a coward.

How would like to see spain vs england. They would be passed off the park.

Southgate is a dreadful manager and has never got england playing

We have the worst manager in the tournament

Biggest problem with Emgland and Aengland fans is hiw they almost live in a vacuum .. that 1st caller had the right idea .. why are people talking like England is the only nation eith amazing talent? As the saying goes, great expectations make frustrated men .. England and their fans are setting themselves up ..

Two holding midfielders has failed England under Southgate every time we try it in a tournament and now in a friendly against a weakened Brazil side the problem is Southgate is not learning from it and will take it into the Euros and we will come up short again. It's his defensive player mentality he can't seem to drop it's not like it's one year, he's been doing this since he took the job and he's proven he can't change. The best hope we have is if we don't win it he goes and we get a manger brave enough to let the attacking players England have to shine before we lose this generational talent.

Souness talking like 1982 tactics are still relevant

If they are solid why they still losing matches !

Southgate has the best record of any England manager since 1966 World Cup winner Sir Alf Ramsey 🤯

Can we have subtitles please

I honestly believe I could get this current crop of players to the semi’s in any international tournament. They’re all mates now through social media, online gaming, etc so there’s no club rivalries to contend with like there was. They’re either very young or haven’t won much so it’s a very ambitious motivated squad. They’re the most talented bunch in generations. There’s ample attackers. Most have played under the best coaches so already have the winning mentality. The current quality of international teams is no where near as competitive as it used to be. Literally everything is in Englands favour aside from a little bit of bravery and tactical astuteness which we’ll never get from Southgate.

I thought our best midfield partnership was Rice and Bellingham with Madison as the 10. Appreciate Bellingham plays as 10 for Madrid but he was so good at 8 next to Rice as 6.

Southgate's gona fritter and waste this team, and it's sad to watch.

imagine klopp or pep coaching England with there type of players they would have won the World cup back to back

Jim- Ask Liz Brace (Creative dept) where is Mersea Island!!!

Its not southgate or capello or big sam or sven etc. its england are just not an elite football nation. Its really that simple. Not good enough. They produce heskeys and rashfords and actually start them 😂😂😂. Big strong athletes is the england way Players like modric, alonso, pirlo, xavi etc would not of made it through academies in england as to small

Can you add subtitles when you have scouse callers please

Fantastic brave observation from Simon, something that’s already happened before MIGHT happen again and stop England, therefore making him right if it does happen and not culpable if he’s wrong seeing as he’s only speculating. Fantastic assertive view Simon! Thanks!

Why have we got so many players with injuries in our squad? Alot of these players were known to be injured beforehand & should've been replaced,why do we continue to stick with Southgates mates like Maguire & what's the point in having an injured Kane,Hendo etc when they are unable to play? Ridiculous!!! Give our front men some service FFS,we won't win anything playing stoggy football from the 90's. 🤮👎

Gallegher doesn't even make the French, German, Spanish, Portuguese, Italian, Belgian, Dutch teams. So why would he start for England? lol

Southgate should play thr shape Arteta plays. Mainoo n Rice behind Bellingham. Allowing Rice to get forward like he does for Arsenal n defendibg went we don't have the ball. He's exceptional at that role. Taking Jude out of the 10 role where he is probably the best in the world currently at club level is mad.

Not sure if this is just Souness just being respectful of Brazil or maybe he sees something that I don’t, But this is far from Brazil’s full strength and full potential. They also have a debut coach and a bunch of fresh, young players. This is concerning because this shows England still has a ways to go, and Gareth is an issue.

England needs to play with 2 DMs to have enough cover for Maguire

Isn't it about time Southgate settled and played his best 11. Too many players being given caps. Yes one holding midfielder and find room for Madison

Maybe Ben took responsibility, inverted and Southgate wasn't having none of it

We are exactly where we were 8 to 10 years ago. Always be favourites 😂 but in reality there are always 6 better teams in every tournament. Quarter final team that always crumbles under pressure.

Can you imagine week in week out you are managed by Pep or Klopp and Don Carlo. Then you come on international duty and have to listen to that boring idiot Southgate

Whatever personal you use. Whatever system you play. Will make no difference. The manager is poor. The end.

Mainoo a great player! Steady now…. England should play with a single pivot, let Declan do his job. Southgate should apologise to Ben White and play him alongside John Stones. Then you have real partnerships that know how to play with each other.

1-2 Belgium 0-1 Brazil say no more. Southgate out

Storm in a teacup in a friendly where 1st 11 not available that clearly didnt play at full belt. Another media pile on for the Twitterati.

England are tired under Southgate. So much unfulfilled potential.

To Quote Ray Finkles Dad, The engine is on but there's nobody behind the wheel 😂😅

Strongest England squad in terms of strength and depth and we will win nothing 😅 with Gareth. I'm not ungrateful, but neither as an ex athlete + coach understand his decision making with the weapons at his disposal. It's 0-0 so your two first subs, not including Konsa for Walker, are defensive players. You have Toney and Madison on the bench 😅

Agree with the guys. Once we play against a good team we will lose purely down to negativity. Saturday was very poor, I dont think Brazil were very good. What do we learn in these games? I've stopped listening to Southgate at the end, may as well hit repeat.

I’ve seen enough tournaments come and go and a frequently recurring theme each and every time is “England has a great team great squad the best midfielder/defence/striker*delete as appropriate and should win this competition” and come the elimination there’s always a palpable shock as to how it’s happened. As far back as I can remember England has always been the collection of players who do well at club level and try to smash it together to fluke a win- look at Gerrard and Lampard for years for example. Greece won a euros based in a team performance at the expense of the individual. I have nothing against Mainoo but my heart has sunk regarding the euros surrounding all the talk of him starting. We are three months or so out and now we are looking at injection a new component when it should be very much at the finest of fine tuning stage and not at the inception phase. Mainoo tears up the premier league between now and the end of the season then there’s an argument for him to maybe make the edge of the squad. How are we even discussing him starting?

Replace the word Southgate with Moyes and they could be summing up how alot of West Ham fans feel about our style of play and approach to games but we aint allowed to dissent .

Let’s go for it this year boys

Absolutely bang on

He's Mike bassett minus the funny

The bottom line is we won't win anything under Southgate. Our players are not as good as we think. They are flattered by all the foreign talent around them at their clubs. Foden for instance looks very ordinary for England. Kane and Bellingham are our only two world-class players. It's no accident that those two were sought by top foreign clubs.

We all feat that- but its a real concern tho !!

Every tournament England can win, And then we see Southgate, And realise were screwed.

Delusional England fans are shameless slagging of a coach who has brought them to semi finals and finals in major tournaments , keeping them competitive season by season , better teams then them have won a tournament and faded away the next one, but still not enough for them , go do ur reasearch about how dominant u lot have been on the international scene humble urself and support the team and the manager when it is needed

Bruuh, without pickford england will never touch the grass of final euro 2020 & semi final w/cup 2018

Croatia 2018 we should not have lost. Played too defensively. The Italy game in 2021 was a total joke. Who on earth tries to defend for 87 minutes after going 1 nil up? In that game Italy even admitted they were all over the place. Mancini was throwing a fit on the touchline. The IT players were arguing with each other. If England had only pushed for that further 20 minutes that game would have been 3 nil at half time and game over. The French World Cup game was a stretch. Kane scores that penalty then it still a 50/50 and the French side were strong. In the 66 World Cup we won because every time we got the ball we went on full scale attack. At times WG could not even get out of their own half. If Southgate plays the same defensive rubbish then this will be another crop of players wasted and another glorious tournament exit. We should have won in 2021 and we should be winning 2024. If only Keegan was manager with this crop of players.....