Sami Mokbel

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370 appearances 4 recordings 1 series first heard May 2026 last heard 10 Aug

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Football Daily · The Commentators’ View: Tuchel’s team & texting Tielemans · 22 May 2026 podcast

Obviously, he's assistant and he's number two.

All three of us would have come across Steve Holland during our time covering England over the years.

And I can't stress the importance of his kind of tactical now, from what I understand, in helping England

Michael Carrick navigate maybe some of those tighter matches.

And certainly Steve Holland's in-game tactical approach and decision-making, as I understand it, really, really helped Michael Carrick along the way.

So I think it's entirely the correct decision that he is now the full-time Manchester United manager.

Yeah, no, I was surprised.

Look, he's had an impressive season in Saudi in terms of goal scoring, 32 goals, as you've already pointed out, Denno.

But I guess it's how you weight that in comparison to, say, Dominic Calvert-Lewin, who has scored, I think, 14 or 15 goals in the Premier League this season.

And someone like Danny Welbeck, who's also scored, I think, 14 goals for Brighton this season.

I can only suspect that during the last international break, when England faced Uruguay in Japan and Solanke and Calvert-Lewin were in that squad, that Thomas Tuchel saw something in training or in the games that those two played and thought...

I'm not quite sure about these two being part of my squad and has obviously now pivoted back to Tony.

So it's an interesting call.

And the other factor, actually, I don't know if I'm reading too much into this is...

Given Ivan Toney has played in Saudi this season and the heat and the conditions over there, I just wonder if him acclimatising to those temperatures and those conditions, because it's going to be searing, isn't it, in the States this summer.

I just wonder if that's played a factor as well and that there won't be that assimilation that maybe some of the other players will need heading into the tournament.

There is just part of me that is just struggling to accept any situation where Tottenham Hotspur get relegated.

I'd have no affiliation to the club whatsoever.

But the English top flight without Tottenham Hotspur

Yeah, I can't get my head around it.

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