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Leon Sacks retweeted
Absolute disgrace of a window.
Anyone saying otherwise is gaslighting you.
No Salah replacement, no DM, no RB.
2 left wingers, a CB on loan, a couple of kids.
Iraola has no hope this season 🤭
One plus, it's Hughes last window here, worst Sporting Director by a distance✅
Leon Sacks retweeted
Last season was the worst LFC side defensively in our PL history conceding 53 goals.
Yet all Richard Hughes focus this Summer has been on wingers🧐
So imagine my shock to see we still look a mess defensively.
Sooner Hughes is gone the better IMO ✅
⚽️Couldn’t agree more. Tuchel lied to 🏴fans about how he was going to play front foot attacking football
Was obvious after QF v Norway + Bellingham’s interview he has lost the players.
At least Gareth told everyone he was trying to defend + win 1-0
Leon Sacks retweeted
🔴📢 JAMIE CARRAGHER slams Thomas Tuchel advising him to Resign following Argentina defeat.
🗣️ “If I were Thomas Tuchel, I would have resigned. Forget the contract until 2028 and forget leading England into another Euros. After a collapse like this, the honourable decision is to walk away before the FA has to act.”
🗣️ “You don’t take charge of one of England’s most talented generations, lead 1-0 in a World Cup semi-final, then retreat into your own half. That isn’t elite management. That’s bottling the biggest moment.”
🗣️ “The substitutions were cowardly, the tactics were negative, and the message to the players was obvious: survive instead of winning. Argentina sensed it immediately and punished England for every fearful decision.”
🗣️ “If the FA still believes Tuchel is the man to lead England through 2028, they need to explain why. This team deserves a manager who attacks big moments instead of shrinking from them.”
🗣️ “Reputation can’t protect you forever. Contracts can’t protect you forever. When your decisions cost England a World Cup final, accountability has to come before excuses.”
🗣️ “For the sake of English football, Tuchel should do the right thing and resign. If he won’t, the FA should ask themselves whether they can honestly justify keeping him in charge.”
Leon Sacks retweeted
Thomas Tuchel was appointed for that last 30 minutes. We were told that it would be different from the knockout king and we got tactical cowardice. And if he really has no regrets, he can leave now.
Column from Atlanta 🔽
inews.co.uk/sport/football/t…
Leon Sacks retweeted
Every single word of this from @Tim_Vickery is spot on. You literally couldn’t say it better.
England had Argentina exactly where we wanted them and gave them the game.
⚽️ 🏴 Absoloutely spot on with this analysis. For once a proper football journalist who understands the game and says what they saw honestly rather than trying to make headlines. #TuchelOUT
Leon Sacks retweeted
The song John Stones is dancing to in this clip is ‘Talk To You’ by 54 Ultra
It might be the song of the summer now…
Leon Sacks retweeted
Adapting In Sport is the biggest strength a team can have .. England proved tonight they can play the ugly game to get them over the line .. loved it ..
⁉️🤯 assuming this is an AI wind up????? Reece James has been out most of the season with a hamstring injury and has done It 10 times in his career!
Wake up Tuchel. If you don’t know this you shouldn’t be in this job!!!!!
⚽️ When Gabby Agbonlahor is actually talking sense for a change then you know that Tuchel has had a shocker here #WorldCup2026
Leon Sacks retweeted
England would not be here in Dallas today in this better shape and with this quality of player and mood without the vital work Gareth Southgate did in tackling a distressed team and dysfunctional system. He made the talent pool deeper. He made players and fans care about England again.
As FA’s head of elite development in 2011 and 2012, Southgate persuaded counties to have kids playing smaller-sided games, enhancing technique. He worked with academies on developing more technical players. He worked with the Under-21s (37 games), building a supply-line of talent.
On becoming England head coach, he worked on rebuilding the relationship between players and fans broken amidst the pain and anger of Nice at Euro 2016.
Southgate worked on England’s culture and restored some identity. He ended club cliques, improved relations with England club managers and their medical staff. He went into club boardrooms and rebuilt trust and support between owners, directors and England.
Southgate smoothed the pathway from Under-21s to seniors and made reporting for international duty something to look forward to again. A joy, not a chore. He brought focus and some fun, real togetherness with inflatable unicorns. He worked on penalties. Marginal gains and more.
He took England from 13th in the world to third. He took England to a World Cup semi-final and quarter-final and to back-to-back Euro finals (102 games, 61 wins, 24 draws, 17 defeats). He just couldn’t get England over the line whether through quality of opposition player and manager or tactical. Like many, I was critical of him at times, in crunch moments of games. But his impact is undeniable and should be respected and celebrated.
England continue to struggle against top-20 sides. France and Argentina yesterday showed the scale of the challenge for Thomas Tuichel and his team here at the World Cup. But England start their latest World Cup finals journey with more belief and quality because of Southgate’s work from 2011 to 2024.
Southgate will doubtless be watching his dear England from afar, wishing them well. He will doubtless take pride in players he knows well. And, although he is too self-effacing and team-minded to talk about it, let alone shout about it, Southgate should certainly take quiet pride in his own immense contribution to England becoming a respected force again. #ENG #FIFAWorldCup
