[Football] Dunk, Welbeck and Webster on 55 man England long list

[Paulie Gualtieri]

What is the point of a 55 man list? Am I on it?

I made the top 100 last week and this is how I find out I’m excluded from the 55?

 

[Ⓩ-Ⓐ-Ⓜ-Ⓞ-Ⓡ-Ⓐ]

Welbeck a stange one. Probably shows the lack of depth we have up front for England.

Pleased for Dunk , will be cut though wont he.

Webster isnt anywhere near it. He's not been great this season yet

Kane, Rashford, Toney, Abraham, Wilson, Calvert Lewin and Watkins all ahead of him presumably.

Would love Dunky to get to go to a WC - he deserves it!

 

[Silverhatch]

I’ve got 14-1 on Danny to go to Qatar

 

[Wozza]

Not a big ask - I didnt even know there were 55 English players in the PL

You don’t need to be in the PL to be in the England squad, of course…

 

[Swansman]

What is the point of a 55 man list? Am I on it?

Every team had to provide a list of 35-55 players to FIFA about two weeks (or something) ago. Practical reasons... granting visas, informing clubs that their players might be going, make the marketing team gather photos and data of these players to publish once the squads are finalised etc.

Welbeck a stange one. Probably shows the lack of depth we have up front for England.

Pleased for Dunk , will be cut though wont he.

Webster isnt anywhere near it. He's not been great this season yet

Unlike Harry Maguire, Luke Shaw, TAA and so forth...

 

[Psychobilly freakout]

Amazed/unsurprised in equal measures that March doesn't get in,

Have you read the March thread though, one look at that, and one would wonder if he could make the 1st team squad at Whitehawk

 

[Guinness Boy]

As they should be.

The idea that Webster & March are not among the 55 best English players currently is just silly though.

This. March has just taken the most expensive full back ever to the CLEANERS and he's been consistently good all season at the highest level. Webster is good on his day, surely all you need to make the long list.

 

[Mellotron]

You don’t need to be in the PL to be in the England squad, of course…

but it helps.

 

[Zeberdi]

You don’t need to be in the PL to be in the England squad, of course…

True - not sure I could list that many off the top of my head though! - at least in recent history … Bull, Zaha (was that just for friendlies though?), Johnstone?

 

[Farehamseagull]

It is LUDICROUS that Southgate doesn't consider March or Webster in the best 55 English players.

 

[Garry Nelson's Left Foot]

Is there a list anywhere of the 55?

 

[Wozza]

True - not sure I could list that many off the top of my head though! - at least in recent history … Bull, Zaha (was that just for friendlies though?), Johnstone?

Bellingham, Tamori and Abraham will be in the 55.

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[scooter1]

What is the point of a 55 man list? Am I on it?

Sorry, you were number 57

 

[monkeymz]

another wasted 2 weeks for dunky

 

[Swansman]

Bellingham, Tamori and Abraham will be in the 55.

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Maybe Smalling as well. Perhaps Lookman. Small chance of Musah and Gomes if he struggled with the final names of the list.

 

[hart's shirt]

True - not sure I could list that many off the top of my head though! - at least in recent history … Bull, Zaha (was that just for friendlies though?), Johnstone?

In the last 20 years, there's been just 5.

2003 David James (West Ham)
2007 David Nugent (Preston)
2010 Jay Bothroyd (Cardiff)
2012 Wilfried Zaha (Crystal Palace)
2021 Sam Johnstone (West Brom)

 

[hans kraay fan club]

Maybe Smalling as well. Perhaps Lookman. Small chance of Musah and Gomes if he struggled with the final names of the list.

Not Lookman. He's playing for Nigeria now.

 

[Swansman]

Not Lookman. He's playing for Nigeria now.

Oops, had not noticed that.

 

[Wozza]

In the last 20 years, there's been just 5.

2003 David James (West Ham)
2007 David Nugent (Preston)
2010 Jay Bothroyd (Cardiff)
2012 Wilfried Zaha (Crystal Palace)
2021 Sam Johnstone (West Brom)

Huh? We're talking non-PL - that includes players based abroad, not just Championship players!

 

[hart's shirt]

What is the point of a 55 man list?

They've got to get rid of those new England shirts somehow.