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And the club’s official reason for this happening is because they don’t want half empty blocks to look bad?

Klopp said he wanted him in the squad - that’s my evidence he’s good enough. As I said, you can choose to just not believe him if that better suits your argument.

Klopp is on record as saying he wanted to keep him but he chose to leave….I suppose you could just claim he was lying.

If Henderson is good enough for a spot on the Liverpool bench then he’s certainly good enough for a spot on England’s. The Saudi move has obviously raised a pretty major question mark but we shall see. Southgate was a failure at club level but the international job is a totally different skill...

Henderson hasn’t been “done for years”, that’s ridiculous. Klopp wanted to keep him before he decided to take the Saudi petro-dollars. If Ward-Prowse was the obvious answer at DM that people seem to think he is (he’s currently being deployed as a 10) then I have to wonder why West Ham spent a...

Yeah I don’t think we’re going to win a major tournament with one holding midfielder in the squad, sorry.

Who are your other holding midfield options beyond Rice? Madders and Grealish? And replaced with who? Losing on penalties at home was sickening, but it was at least the start of building a team which is now favourites to win it all this summer.

Personally I would expect Klopp to need more than a few weeks to transform England into a high-intensity pressing team at the end of a long Premier League season. It’s moot anyway, the England manager should be English. Plenty of other big sides (including past England sides) have shown that...

Any foreign manager would be a major embarrassment but Klopp would be absolutely insufferable

It’s potentially the Ebola virus as well, I have no idea why he’s not in the squad (sorry)

Potential torn ACL…

Other than the issues at Chelsea I just mentioned? I don’t think anyone wants Southgate in the job based on his tactical nous or track record at club level but he’s nevertheless shown himself to be a much more effective manager of the team than other coaches with better CVs. If we’re going to...

Fifth place team going 1-0 up against fourth place team doesn’t mean we have to declare Ipswich as frauds

Queues already a bit long for tomorrow’s game, still hoping to make it in for kickoff, assume you lot are already inside?

He was a disaster at Chelsea and by most accounts failed to manage the kind of internal politics and player power that would be even more important as England manager. I don’t see why you’re rushing to move on from someone who may not be getting the final results but is certainly getting the...

Thought their signings were decent and they looked a good unit under Eustace at the start of the season - I don’t think it’s the new signings’ fault that they decided to tear that up. Any team on their third manager of the season is going to look crap for lengthy periods.

Or the charitable way to describe it is following the script of an “unlucky” defeat to one of the tournament favourites after missing one or more penalties. Losing in tournaments is bad, but the margins of defeat suggest we are not as far away as Southgate’s critics say we are. I know some...

This country really does love a good “They’re surely not in the river” conspiracy theory

In all seriousness there is no credible English candidate for the job anywhere to be found so unless we completely botch the Euros then I have no issue with him staying.