At least that makes sense when the defender leaves their arm in such an exposed and forced position.

And so the inquest begins. Why did Gareth Southgate stick with Maguire? Why was he so loyal? Couldn’t he see it coming? Because everyone can see it coming.

Everyone saw it coming in the last 2 tournaments but he still delivered massively then which is the key part keeping him in contention.

Having said that Stones is the universally agreed starter, and for me the spot next to him should be a fight between Dunk and Guehi (I’m a lot lower than most on rating Tomori). Maguire would definitely be my 4th choice though because his experience at that level invaluable, especially for someone who would only be thrown in in a ‘everyone else is injured’ acenario

Definitely PL bias showing here but it’s between Ozil, KDB and Cesc for me. For different reasons I can make arguments that to claim all 3…I’ve never seen a player who’s entire game revolves around playing that final killer ball as much as Ozil, KDB fits the bill when including things like set pieces and crossing more than the other 2, and Fabregas was just an absolute passing genius no matter whether he lined up as an AM or a DM and I’d say had the best vision of the 3.

Werner to Chelsea- I’m a chelsea fan and prior to the links to signing him I’d never seen him play. So as most fans do I went to YouTube and Twitter to see his compilations. And after 3 videos I’d never ever seen a compilation video that was so one dimensional. 95% of the highlights was him exploiting space that simply doesn’t exist in the PL. And the other 5% didn’t move me at all. Even in his best moments his touch was sloppy, and there was 0 variation in what he could effectively do. And lo and behold all of that came to fruition at Chelsea. I’ll never get what the club had in mind when buying him.

Havertz to Arsenal - this time as a Chelsea fan I’d seen almost of his minutes in England, and he’s basically the opposite of Werner but somehow still in a bad way. Werner does a couple of very specific things really well and everything else way below average, whereas Havertz is Mr Average across the board. The club was pretty unstable throughout his whole tenure here, but even with that in mind he got every chance under the sun to succeed and he couldn’t. So in the summer just gone where it’s known that we need to get rid of players within a week for FFP reasons, I couldn’t fathom that one of our close rivals offered to take him for pretty much the price we bought him for. I’m grateful for it but still can’t understand why Arsenal bailed us out like that.

I feel like this argument holds true for every player in history except for Kante. Genuinely think Leicester would have won the league with any upper-mid table deep lying midfielder who was having a consistent season.