Rob Draper

It's not very, he's not putting the boot in, but he is in an understated way.

And that just tells you that this is a player who doesn't contribute to the XI.

And in modern football, basically you can argue, OK, bold statement coming up, but I mean, this is one of the first modern football teams where teamwork in the system is going to be really, really important.

You know, maybe you can't have the luxury player anymore.

We love star names.

This is true today.

We still want Jack Grealish in the England team a few years ago.

And actually, he did rather well on occasions.

But there was a period of his game where he didn't track back at all.

But Grealish is a great figure and a great charismatic figure.

And you want to write about him.

But I think Shearer is obvious.

He is such a team player that, yeah, you just want the goal scoring boots back on again.

I mean, maybe Kane in Euro 2024 when it's obvious he was injured and it was very hard to drop Harry Kane because you know he's your best finisher, but it's clear he wasn't able to do the things that

a centre forward needed to do and I think Southgate was reasonably brave even pulling him off at the times when he did but actually maybe his argument don't start him in the final

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