Flies> Neill.

Thanks to Brendan Rodgers old Hogson might be able to play some attacking football even if it scares him to death.
A midfield of Gerrard holding, Wilshire as the 8 and Lallana at 10 has a good feel to me. A front thee of Sturridge, Sterling and the Ox as a central striker would be a very mobile forward line well versed in the Liverpool system.

He wont do it though probably put potato head as the 9, sacrifice Lallana for Henderson or Milner.

England squad:

Goalkeepers: Fraser Forster (Celtic), Ben Foster (West Bromwich Albion), Joe Hart (Manchester City).

Defenders: Leighton Baines (Everton), Gary Cahill (Chelsea), Phil Jagielka (Everton), Glen Johnson (Liverpool), Phil Jones (Manchester United), Luke Shaw (Southampton), Chris Smalling (Manchester United).

Midfielders: Ross Barkley (Everton), Steven Gerrard (Liverpool), Jordan Henderson (Liverpool), Adam Lallana (Southampton), Frank Lampard (Chelsea), James Milner (Manchester City), Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain (Arsenal), Raheem Sterling (Liverpool), Jack Wilshere (Arsenal).

Attackers: Rickie Lambert (Southampton), Wayne Rooney (Manchester United), Daniel Sturridge (Liverpool), Danny Welbeck (Manchester United).

Standby: John Ruddy (Norwich City), Jon Flanagan (Liverpool), John Stones (Everton), Michael Carrick (Manchester United), Tom Cleverley (Manchester United), Andy Carroll (West Ham United), Jermain Defoe (Toronto FC).

3 players in the 30 man squad over 30 years of age is pretty damn impressive.

. We have no one to play CB (bar Spira).

With our CBs dropping like flies, was dropping Neill a tad premature?

Socceroos defenders vie for World Cup squad spots

Five central defenders will battle for four seats on the plane to Brazil from next Wednesday when Socceroos' coach Ange Postecoglou announces his preliminary World Cup squad.

There will be a new-look defensive partnership in the heart of the Socceroos defence in Brazil In the absence of former captain Lucas Neill, veteran Sasa Ognenovski and the injured Rhys Williams leaving Ryan McGowan, Matthew Spiranovic, Curtis Good, Alex Wilkinson and Trent Sainsbury as the five centre-backs in the extended 30-man Socceroos squad to be announced on Wednesday. However, one of the five aspirants will miss the final cut for the 2014 FIFA World Cup.

Sources close to the national team suggest that Postecoglou is only planning to take four central defenders to Brazil and will give the quintet an opportunity to stake their claims during their 10-day training camp on the Central Coast and during the friendly match against South Africa on May 26.

McGowan and Spiranovic are regarded as the most assured of the five especially as two of the defenders are also battling injury problems on top of the competition for places. Trent Sainsbury is yet to fully recover from a freak knee injury sustained in his debut game for Dutch club PEC Zwolle while Curtis Good is suffering a hip flexor strain.

A number of domestic players in contention to form the preliminary World Cup squad are training together in Adelaide. Melbourne Victory trio Mark Milligan, Tom Rogic and James Troisi are in camp and likely to make up the extended list alongside Newcastle Jets striker Adam Taggart, Brisbane duo Ivan Franjic and Matt McKay while Adelaide's Eugene Galekovic will battle former Reds' understudy Mark Birighitti for the third goalkeeper spot in Brazil.

The Wanderers' Spiranovic will continue playing with his club throughout the remainder of their Asian Champions League campaign before joining the national team in camp.

http://www.smh.com.au/sport/soccer/socceroos-defenders-vie-for-world-cup-squad-spots-20140509-zr70n.html#ixzz31ChHFpCF

thats how you promote youth....

durm, mustafi, draxler, goretzka, meyer, volland, hahn..... etc

most of that squad is well under 30.

Shit that squad is good. Yes we have Spain, Netherlands and Chile but on the plus side we dont have to face Germany. Whats scary is the players who didnt make the squad

Didn't see much of Antonis, but he looked very good when I did for Sydney.

Would not be surprised to see T-S partner Spira.

Brattan just hasn't played enough senior international football yet. The WC is a big step up from the HAL. The Asian Cup could be a possibility, if he plays a few friendlies between now and January.

German squad of 30 announced:

. I would much rather see Giannou, Antonis and Troisi in the squad.



The greatest selection surprise would be if Milligan was selected and moved into CB with Spira and Brattan started alongside the Jedi.

With Vidal looking likely to miss the WC, I don't think Chile will be that dangerous n the centre of midfield. To be honest, I don't know their midfielders that well, but I'm just assuming that if there is any game to attack in, it's that one.

I heard that Sainsbury could be expecting to have surgery in the off season and as a result will miss the tournament. Otherwise I would have selected him. McKay is a possibility, and Ange will probably pick him, but we have so many midfielders I couldn't put him or Bozanic in. Plus Bozanic hasn't played much recently. McGowan also hasn't played that much lately, but Ange will probably select him anyway.