Arsenal Players Star in Final Tune-ups But Injury Worries Remain

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1:26It's a blind finish. He's back with a bang with Fukuyasaka. 1-0. Unbelievable. The World Cup is underway, and already the PGML's anti-Arsenal bias... Oh, sorry, force of habit. This is the Arsenal Vision Post-Match Podcast. My name's Eli Smith. I'm on Twitter. Yank Gunner. World Cup underway, and already three more red cards than Arsenal received this season. Pretty impressive. So I thought you might enjoy that. Just something to bear in mind as we carry on here. a couple things I got to tell you. The Morgan Rogers scouting video is up. Clive and I did it. We used some data from Scott. We watched some video, not just YouTube comp video, but all actions video.

2:06And I'm going to say this. Run, don't walk to get to that scouting video. Because it's as the kids say, fire. Do the kids say that? They probably don't. I don't know what the kids say. I know what 10-year-old kids say, but no one wants to hear what 10-year-old kids or 6-year-old kids say indeed. Tim could probably help us with what young kids say, but look, it's real good. Saliba 50 is a code, a couple quid. You can go check it out, see what the scouting videos are like. We do them in audio format and video format. There's about a 20-minute podcast that starts it, then we dive into the data, then we watch the video for about 30-40 minutes, and it's real good.

2:40He's a real good player, and I would enjoy him at Arsenal, suffice it to say. We'll be talking more about him, I'm sure. We'll be scouting Junior Kruppi next, I believe, is the next one we'll be looking at, as Arsenal look to strengthen the attack, which makes sense. given that the defense is the best in the world. So strengthening the attack seems like the right place to go. We are going to have a World Cup Daily coming soon, depending on when you listen to this. We're recording this Thursday evening UK time between the first two games of the World Cup. World Cup Daily will come out in the morning's US time following the prior day's action.

3:15So to recap the prior day in our headline, stock rising, stock falling away, and then it'll look ahead to the games coming up. That seems to be the time and that works best. Michael Timms will be hosting that. there'll be a lot of your favorite Arsenal Vision people on it, unfortunately, but also Michael Tim. So there you go. He might even, as he said, get some players to come on, which would be pretty cool. Be ironic if they never came on for any Arsenal podcast, but just for the World Cup daily. But there you go. Here with me now is Tim. Hello, Tim. Hello there. Tim, I'm telling you this, Morgan Rodgers scouting video, man.

3:39Like I try to find what's wrong with players. I get accused sometimes of being too critical. I tried in vain to be critical of this player. He's quite talented. Yeah, yeah. It looks that way. It's funny because Because when we did the live show at Union Chapel, obviously I wasn't with you. I arrived like two minutes before we went on stage, but you kind of gave me the rundown. And usually they follow the same format, but the one that caught me on the hop was who would your dream signing be? And I hadn't prepared it at all. And it was just absolutely top of the head. I was just like, Morgan Rogers.

4:14Nailed it. Nailed it in one. I hadn't thought about it at all. I was just like, it was just like, say a name of someone who sounds vaguely plausible and is quite good and that was that was just I totally shot from the hip didn't think about whether he'd fit in or anything like that and afterwards I was kind of oh would he fit in but that that was just like uh it was like quickly Tim name a Premier League footballer and that's that's what I went with yeah I there is something to be said right sometimes you want to add just the right qualities that the team is crying out for. Sometimes you find a player that has some physical gifts that are elite in the game and you just add them because when you add player that has some absolute top drawer world-class best in football level gifts, you find a way to use those, right?

5:01I mean, Declan Rice, I'll confess, I was guilty at times when we scouted Declan Rice and be like, well, is his progressive passing good enough? Can he pass the ball a hundred times at 90 %? I mean, as it turns out, he could because he's a good enough player to add strings to his bow as he develops. But it almost didn't matter because the things he does at a world-class level are so valuable. And I think Morgan Rogers has that quality. The way he can turn transitions into goals through his runs, through his shooting, through his final ball. I mean, we recover the ball well, but I don't think we always do as well as we could when we recover the ball.

5:37He could be a big difference maker there. So So I think him and as a together could be interesting, and we might talk about that in a moment based on a little cameo for England. I think he could play off Kai brilliantly. It's almost a Giroud-Griesman kind of concept of one player who can drop in, hold it off, another player who can run through. I mean, there's a lot of ways you can devastate with him in the lineup. So I think it's a really sound signing. Is it going to turn us into PSG where we keep the ball 80 % of the game? No, but I don't think that's the only way you have to play. You know what I mean?

6:07I mean that's top of mind for people because that's what we lost to in the Champions League final but I don't think that's the only way you have to play football no no I mean I kind of almost hate to make this comparison but Mourinho's Chelsea Mourinho's first Chelsea team didn't really do that did they they did sometimes like Mourinho's Chelsea team they they beat up you know close to what we did last season they beat up on like the rubbish teams probably in an era where that was easier to do than it is now and then they were relatively attritional against the big teams and that that took them very far basically like they didn't kind of that i think their next move after that was to buy michael esien basically so that kind of tells you that they weren't really like going like we've got mackalaley we've got lampard do we do we add a pass to this no we had Michael Essien who's like somewhere in between Lampard and McAuley and we just like we lean into what we are so I definitely think there is like a strong element of that and I think you're right in terms of like pointing to some of the players we've signed like like like we're still sorting out who Rice's real partner is I think like it was kind of like well it will be part a for a while because he's there but we know his contracts running down same with Jorginho but like I still think that partnership space next to him is open I really think like I really think Lewis Skelly has blown that wide open I really really do and I agree my my hot take is that Lewis Skelly's there to stay yeah I think for a number of reasons but like we're like four seasons into Declan Rice and and what have we done basically it's been like we we've worked around it right it's just like yeah and and and actually we did much the same when we had patrick vieira though he had a lot of midfield partners some of them you know giberto manuel petit world cup winners but we were happy to partner him with gilles gomondi and ray parlor it was just like we've got patrick vieira we'll work the rest out around it like is patrick vieira was he a dm no was he number eight no like just play him and work out the rest later like there are players like that and there are points like that Kai Havertz same deal it's like he's got these qualities does it matter whether he's a midfielder or a forward not really we just want them on the pitch yeah I mean I think there are a lot of ways to build a winner and maybe I don't know maybe the right comp is Jurgen Klopp's Liverpool, which had a lot of physically elite players.

8:51Now, granted, some of them were sort of further up the pitch. Salah was powerful and sprinty at that time, you know, when they were getting 99 points. Sadio Mane, obviously physical, sprinty, powerful. You know, they had a young Van Dijk who was big and powerful at the back. And Ginny Wijnaldum was physically imposing. Firmino wasn't a sprinter, but, you know, sort of a physical presence in the middle of the pitch. maybe a Kai Havertz type figure if you want to think about facilitating for others to run through. And they had those qualities. I don't know. I just think if you look at Rice and Miles and Morgan Rodgers and Bakayo Saka when he's fit and Kai Havertz or Victor Yokerez, depending on one or both or however you want to look at them, Mikel Marino.

9:40That's a lot of physical, powerful athletes, but who also have a pretty high technical level, I think, in terms of some of the key contributions when it really matters. So I think it could be very exciting and he could play left. He could play behind a striker. He could play, you know, as one of the eights. I think there's a lot of ways you could use him to full effect. So it would be very exciting. I should mention, by the way, we're recording this between games of the World Cup on its first day. Three more red cards than we received this season in the first game two for south africa one for mexico standard of football wasn't great south africa were really really terrible i mean do you have anything you want to say about it other than yeah obviously the crowd at the aztec is spectacular it's a great place for football but it wasn't you know a showpiece opener yeah yeah no it wasn't i don't think it was ever really going to be either uh mexico a team who in qualifying really really lent into set pieces Imagine watching a team like that would just be rubbish, wouldn't it?

10:36Terrible ruins football, yeah. Mexico's ruining football. I say qualifying. No, they didn't have to qualify. I think - Probably just in the friendlies run up, you know. Yeah, yeah. They scored something like 10 goals from set pieces over the last two years type thing. And actually, we didn't really see that in this game. But yeah, I mean, there wasn't like really like a standout player in either of these teams. Mexico I think the the manager they hired uh Aguirre I don't really know how you pronounce it in Spanish it's like his third spell um as manager of Mexico and this happens in international football right it's kind of go with what you know basically it happens with players as well all the time and like Mexico basically just trying to pride themselves on being bastards to play it's just high press it's aggressive a starless team we don't really have a star so let's just be like a a bit of a pain but I guess my kind of comment on this just as an opening game don't know like it's not to say that all of this will be like a theme of the World Cup or anything because it's just one football game but like people who said that the Premier League has felt quite stop start over the last season I think if you've had that from the Premier League you're going to get that to the power of 10 for the World Cup and some of that is going to be about the weather and obviously built into that are the hydration breaks although i'm a little bit dubious that they're entirely about about the climate yeah i don't know about you guys but for our coverage they broke away for commercial breaks advertisements and that that was really affecting for me it was jarring yeah i mean i was like is it halftime all right like it was it it's very unusual and i i would say not welcome yeah we we actually didn't go to um an ad break uh which is kind of surprising because the game on ITV in England, which is, for those of you who don't know, that's the station that has advertising.

12:30The BBC does not have advertising. It's run by public money. So like BBC would never have that. They don't advertise, but ITV who are showing this game, they didn't cut to an ad break, which I'm actually quite surprised by, but it's still like, I understood like in principle, I support it. It's like most of the games in this tournament are going to be really hot. A lot of them are going we play during the day like of course like you have to kind of do that um but at the same time like it really breaks the game up and i think the climate is going the the climate plus international football is going to make for some quite slow games as well and this one then had like some lengthy var checks um i mean south africa were really bad and didn't really look ready to play They looked nervous.

13:20Then when they stopped looking nervous, they just looked like they barely had themselves under control emotionally. After going down to nine men, there was a moment where the ball ran out for a throw. And one of the South African players got lucky because he tried to kick at the guy who had gone out with the ball, but he was too far away from him to get him. I mean, is three red cards when you get the forfeit? I mean... No, no. I think you have to go... I think it's five. Okay, so not close. But still, down to eight men would have been an ignominious start to their World Cup as it is already. So, yeah, I think when you have an opponent like that who has so little to offer and you're the home favorite and you know, let's just not slip on this banana peel, that can create a sort of turgid game after they took the lead.

14:07Yeah, and also South Africa are in quite a unique position here because I may be proved wrong on this, but Mexico, more than the USA and Canada, is a very traditional football nation. This is their third World Cup that they're hosting. This stadium has hosted the largest number of World Games. A legendary final. Yeah, yeah, yeah. And they said on ITV commentary that Mexico have opened the most World Cups. like Mexico are in that real sweet spot where obviously in CONCACAF, they always qualify basically and they're at a certain level. So they're always at the World Cup. They're hosting for the third time.

14:48And only in, you know, in like 56 years, there'll be plenty of people who've seen all three of those World Cups. So like, you know, having a game in Mexico City, the opening game of the World Cup, that is the most away from home. I think anyone in this tournament is going to feel because I suspect the games in the US and Canada that don't involve US and Canada well even the ones that do like I think just the pricing point alone probably means it won't be quite the same atmosphere as like Mexico playing in Mexico City like opening the World Cup so and also South Africa had I think about 100 fans there or something like that.

15:29And don't get me wrong, for reasons we probably won't talk about again, there are going to be a lot of teams competing in this World Cup who will have no fans in the stadium whatsoever unless they come from the diaspora, particularly in the US. But you know what I mean? For South Africa, I think they're not a good team. I don't think they're going to go anywhere. They're going to lose all their games. Yeah, yeah. But I also think this is like one of the most uniquely stacked against you games that I think you can play. It's a fair point. I think there's another dynamic that we kind of need to take into consideration, which is there are what, 12 groups?

16:14Yeah, it goes up to group L. Yeah, eight of the 12. So two-thirds of the third-place finishers will go to the knockout rounds. and that means there will be teams with like one point that might have a you know two points that might have a shot to go through so there's a huge incentive even if you're losing not necessarily to try to get back into it but don't lose by more than one and so you may see weird dynamics where a team has a one nil lead and it kind of doesn't want to blow it and another team has an oh one deficit, a nil-one deficit, and they don't want to let it get to two because they may feel if we can just get two draws minus one goal.

16:58Yes. Yeah. Yes. I mean, so that could create some strange dynamics. Look, we'll see how it goes. There's another game tonight. I will say I watched it. I mean, it's World Cup. You're going to watch it. It is the case that whatever we've said about the World Cup up to this point, when football kicks off, you watch the football and that's just how it works. So let's talk a little bit about the international football that happened before the World Cup kicked off because an interesting couple of days, Arsenal players looking really, really good. And I think it's interesting, right? Because to the neutral who doesn't want to rate Arsenal, you kind of have to square that with the fact that when Arsenal players go off and play for their country, all of a sudden, guess what?

17:32They're really good. Kai Havertz, really good. A goal and an assist for Germany, right? Looks really good. Gets another goal. All the Arsenal players look good for England. England looked really good. And you can say, well, it's just Costa Rica. I've seen the U.S. men's team struggle with and lose to Costa Rica. I've seen Costa Rica be a thorn in the side of teams. I've seen Costa Rica look okay at World Cups. I'm not saying that's the Costa Rica they are right now, and I'm not saying it was a good performance from them. But England, especially in the second half, looked like the Harlem Globetrotters.

18:00They were having fun with the game. I mean, they were playing champagne football, tricks and flicks, and Ezzo was setting up Rodgers. And I have to say, Ebrecha Ezzo looked sensational to me. And just one of those players that when he gets the ball around the top of the box, some of the things he can do especially when the game is at a slower pace are incredible like he's the kind of guy that I could see if he went to like La Liga would just have 27 assists and 15 goals in a season but I wonder what you make of let's stay on England in particular because Saka played thought he looked pretty bright Nani Meduake did what he does which is get wide open beat a goalkeeper miss a chance Ezzo looked great um Declan Rice scored a goal it was a good day for the Arsenal boys yeah yeah it really was I thought you know speaking briefly from an England perspective really smart to do this friendly I do kind of um I like Tuchel as as England manager I kind of I like what he's done with the squad but this was like playing in Orlando at was it 4 p.m or it's supposed to be 4 p.m right like there's there's a storm in orlando every single day at 4 p.m right so i think they knew full well that some kind of kickoff delay was very very likely and like putting up with you know for example a delay of an hour and then you know what it's like in really hot places after a storm and again i was seeing this all over like my timeline on twitter all the english journalists they're going oh my god look at the pitch there's only an hour till kickoff and like all the floridians in the mentions just being like give it 15 minutes it'll all be gone it's like the our climate will take care of that don't worry but then obviously you get all the moisture in the air and it becomes very very oppressive and when they are they interwent itv interviewed thomas tuckel before the game like he really gave me the air of like we kind of we were almost banking on this happening as part of our preparation, as part of our acclimatization to come to Orlando, one of the hottest places in the middle of the afternoon, where we pitched the kickoff at storm time.

20:22I thought that was quite smart in terms of the acclimatization. And then they did a game the next day, actually, a behind-closed-doors game against Miami, where they played all the players that didn't play in this game, basically. because like and that was about heat acclimatization as well it was like you've all got to get used to playing um in this kind of climate but in terms of the arsenal players like there's a couple of things i go into here first of all england surprisingly given they've got bukayo saka and declan rice look pretty threatening from set pieces and i am really looking forward to england doing that in the tournament and seeing some people say can I surprise you I actually love set pieces I think they're great and like maybe people realizing that that's why Arsenal are good at corners and it's not because like we're stabbing people in the penalty area and stuff like that but like Declan Rice for example just like completely lifted the level of what England are capable of in midfield.

21:29And I kind of think, as it is for England, as it is for Arsenal, he's just one of those players that there's no replacement for that, really. There's no, like, you just have to find another way to play without him. And with Madueke as well, I just think it's so interesting. Like, Madueke might be about to make a very good top-level career out of kind of being Bakayo Saka's Achilles insurance. yeah you know like he's he's he's had a lot of game time this season and he's going to england at the world cup in exactly the same role he has for arsenal which is bukayo's achilles is a bit sore today on you go nonny type thing and um and one of the things i like about the way tukul's built the squad he's built it around harry kane basically which i can say now he no longer plays for Tottenham is the right thing to do.

22:24And when you look at the players, Tuchel selecting the players he hasn't, who hasn't he selected? Palmer and Foden. Why? Because they kind of just stand there. They don't beat anyone. They stand there and they look for a shot, basically. Whereas what Tuchel selected, Rashford, Gordon, Madueke, he's selected guys who run in behind, guys who dribble, guys who take players on. Basically guys who can be like Harry Kane's legs, really. And so it's really clear that Tuchel likes Madueke quite a lot. And I think that's really interesting that Madueke kind of seems to be one of those players who, understandably, definitely frustrating, but coaches love him, I think.

23:10I think that's what's really coming through is that although Chelsea were willing to sell him, they did play him every week before that like he was first choice at Chelsea and Arteta likes him and Tuchel likes him and there comes a point where you have to be like however frustrated you are by the player you kind of because I guess like attacking's a volume game right most attacks don't become goals so I've I've always been of the position that you tolerate a slightly frustrating attacker if to kind of quote the Moneyball movie, you know, like, why do we like him? He gets on base. Like that's, Maduweke reminds me of that a bit.

23:52It's like he gets on base, like he gets you into the last 10 yards of the pitch. From there, it's variable. But you know what? Every attack is variable in the last 10 yards of the pitch. So the guys that get you there all the time, I think are really valuable. I think he's such a fascinating player that maybe I'm learning to see slightly differently in an England shirt as well. Yeah, but I think also, what was Nani Maduike's best game for us? Maybe the Bruges game? The average opposition you face in international football is probably Bruges level, honestly, until you're up against a France or a Spain.

24:26And so is Nani Maduike an elite player at the elite level? I don't think he is. Can Nani Maduike look elite against middling players? Absolutely. His athleticism is too much. His ability to beat a man is too much. and he's going to miss chances. He's going to get end product wrong, but just the ability to cause devastation, it's like a random number generator. Eventually, it's going to go for you, I think. And he tries to do it every single time. He's relentless. He is relentless. I do think there's something to be said, and this is why I like Morgan Rodgers, by the way. I love players who the opposition are dreading facing you.

25:01You know what I mean? There are certain players that you just know you're going to have a pretty easy day. You're going to be able to handle them pretty easily. And we've had players like that in attack where he just, but he's a player that I think even if he doesn't get it right, he's going to put the shits up his opposition man. So I think he could be a very valuable tool for England. I think obviously it allows Saka to be used as needed and cautiously, which I think is the best thing both for us and for Saka. And candidly, I wish Saka would pull out of this World Cup. I just think he has the pride and the desire to play for his country, and I appreciate that about him.

25:40I appreciate his mentality. But based on what Tuchel said, Tim, I'm just wondering what you think of it. I mean, Tuchel said basically he cannot train on consecutive days. That to me is a player that needs a summer off. And I get that you're trying to win the World Cup, but with all due respect to Saka, I don't think a Saka who can't train on consecutive days is the difference between you winning a World Cup or not. I don't think he's going to get fit enough to be that Saka this summer. And this is a loaded England team. So maybe everybody wins if you just send Saka home and let him get fit. But I realize it's a World Cup and no player, you know, if you're lucky as a player, you get four of them.

26:18More likely you get, if you're a superstar, you get three. Maybe you get two. If you're unlucky with injury and timing, no player wants to throw a World Cup away, you know? No, no, definitely not. It's a bit like I was listening to a podcast the other day, you know, talking about England at World Cups and like Paul Gascoigne went to one, you know, and it was when he was 23 in 1990. And it's so like I didn't, I'd never realized that before until they said that. Like they were talking about the 1990 World Cup and it was like he never played at a World Cup again. Did Theo ever get back to one after his 16 year old one?

26:53I mean, no, he never played. You know what I mean? Yeah. Exactly. Yeah. Yeah. he was selected at 17 um didn't make the squad in 2010 was injured 2014 and by 2018 he was out the picture it can slip away from you yeah and i i mean i i'm with you like i i'd love you know it's it's a bit like jury and timber isn't it like i honestly i feel so sorry for him he doesn't deserve that like he really doesn't deserve that and my my overriding emotion i know how much this I well I think I know how much this means to players and whatever it means to us or blah blah blah etc but I feel so sorry for him but obviously the the bigger Arsenal part of me is like but I'm kind of glad yeah it would be the same for Saka but ultimately I'm not like upset about it because if I'm him I'm I'm going to play at the World Cup and frankly if I'm Thomas Tuchel and I want to win the World Cup, I'm going to take him.

27:55And I think I saw a tweet from someone the other day. I can't remember who it was. They were talking about Harry Kane and his ankle injuries. And they basically said that what kind of saved Harry Kane was COVID because COVID forced like a three-month, four-month period of kind of rest, of no games. And after that, he didn't have any ankle injuries. But with Saka as well, I think the thing is, with the Achilles as well it's like it's so difficult to read because he did have like two months off recently basically like we didn't play him for well and it's about six weeks we didn't play him for and clearly it didn't go away and I do think I relatively recently I had tendinitis in my Achilles and honestly it obviously I'm not a professional athlete uh very obviously well like opinions it it it really was just like the doctor was just like it will go when it goes and honestly it took like six months but then just one day it was gone and that was it like it and that i was kind of told to expect that it will be random it would just be one day you'll get up and it'll be gone and it will kind of be fine and so it's very difficult to read i think and like if he took the world cup off that would give him six weeks off which he's just had anyway and it didn't get like would it get rid of it would it not does he need six months does he need a year does he need two weeks like i do think it's quite variable yeah i i gotta say i think it's a it's a really really serious situation for arsenal that people don't want to really acknowledge you're lucky if you get one Ballon d 'Or level player in a squad.

29:42We may have that in Declan Rice. We may have that in William Saliba. We may have that in Bakayo Saka. Why are we winning titles and going to Champions League finals? Because we've got Ballon d 'Or quality at all three lines. But one of them is broken. And people say, oh, we need to improve the attack. We need to improve the attack. Well, look at Liverpool. One of the best attacks in England last year when Mohamed Salah was scoring 70 goals and getting 30 assists and took a huge step back when Mohamed Salah went over the age curve and was basically done this season. What do you think happened to our attack?

30:16Paikai Osaka, our best attacker and one of the best wide forwards in world football, was never at the level you'd like him to be this whole season. And if that happens again next season, no matter who we sign, they will not be as good as an elite Paikai Osaka. Breaking news, we're not going to sign anybody as good as Paikai Osaka when he's at his best. Because there are maybe two players in the world at that level or three or four. And so him being at his best is probably the best thing we could do to be better next season. And that's why I just, I hope he is able to find a way to get himself the rest he needs.

30:50I said it on the Morgan Rodgers scouting video a little bit, and Clive didn't like it, understandably. But if he plays, and England go very deep in this World Cup, I would be fine if Kao Saka doesn't make an appearance for Arsenal until October. You know? I mean, at some point, you have to take the medicine. You just have to. And we might have to get that Manchester City mentality of try to be great in February, March, April, May instead of being great in August and September. So we'll see. I do think the England team is a really interesting one, Tim. You think about England have always had a lot of talent in recent years, but it's been, well, I guess we can play Trenton midfield or we'll squeeze Foden and Cole Palmer and Bellingham and all these guys into the team that all want to stand in the same zones.

31:32And we'll have Trippier who's passed it. And it's like, it's all kind of fallen for them because Nico O 'Reilly's come to the fore and he's brilliant. Rhys James is fit again, at least for the time being. Elliott Anderson's development, you put him with Declan Rice, you have a really nice balance back there that supports Jude Bellingham wanting to go and be a support striker, or Morgan Rodgers wanting to go run through, or Eberich Eze dropping between the lines and dripping quality on the ball at the edge of the final third. You've got runners who will go past Kane, as you said, and Gordon and Nani Meduake or Saka can do it, or whoever you want to put out there.

32:03There's a balance to this England team where it's not just put all the best players out there even though they don't make sense in the positions. It's a really talented team where the positions they're in make a lot of sense and complement each other well. So I'm kind of, I hate to say it, excited to watch England in this tournament. Yeah, definitely. I think some of that as well is to call, like, you know, it just comes to a stage with managers, right? I think Gareth Southgate largely did a good job with England, But obviously England, he took them from a different position in terms of like, he took them when they were quite bad and they've been quite bad for a few years and kind of built them up.

32:45But it did feel like to go to like the next level, it did need someone external to come in. And, you know, like a German coach who's like, I didn't grow up reading The Sun and the Mirror every day. I don't care what you guys say. Like Southgate had started to get into that. Oh, I'm coming under pressure to play these guys. So I feel like I've got to start doing it, you know, like, and, and, uh, it's, it felt like he became quite reactive. Whereas I think Tuchel, first of all, not being English, but also just not caring and Tuchel as well. Like he, he was talking as well. One of the things I think I'm, I'm quite fascinated by with England, he's really gone like premier league style.