NOT GOOD ENOUGH! 🗣️ Steve Nicol sounds off on England's players | ESPN FC 

England squad is one player short of world class: Kalvin Phillips.

Its not the players. Its Southgate. Most of these players are top class for their clubs

Are you English media and pundits watching Ralf Ragnic now?

This is almost identical to 2006; I remember Southgate (as a pundit) saying they'll easily win but need a performance against Paraguay in the last group game, they won 1-0 in an utter borefest and eventually fell out in the quarters. If England get past the quarters I'll be shocked; despite the easier draw.

Steve protecting his pal Southgate.

Steve still scapegoating Trent, I'm surprised he is not blaming him for today's performance.

The reason Bellingham is looking lost is the same for several England players, they dont have their world class club mates giving them the ball when they need it.

Average players overhyped by Eng medias.

England should bench every player and start the pundits🤣🤣🤣🤣

It is the managers fault look at Liverpool before Klopp. The manager makes the difference.

Think about this , Southgate is the highest payed manager at the tournament.

Someone in the locker room needs to stand up and say no to these tactics!

They'll never accept reality that their players are overrated and just mid players with huge PR .. that's their problem

The players have no fight. This is a combination of them fighting for their clubs over a very long season and Southgate's overly cautious approach. Playing not to lose never works. I really hope someone sparks them in their next game or they will be out.

Southgate makes every player look bad. Brings the worst out of the players. He needs Kalvin Phillips to make his system work 😂😂😂😂😂😂

Good players alone do not work. Germany had even more quality with Wirtz/Musiala and lost almost every game before Nagelsmann changed the balance of the team and cut some stars out.

Austria have a chance to do somthing at this tournament pretty special because of their coach, germany the same, spain are coached properly from a young age so we know how they play before the manager is even appointed. England miles off it tactically compared to other nations thats the reason we need a proper coach and coaches from youth level which are proper nothing will change. Its definitely the coach it doesnt matter who plays it will be rubbish simple as that and that tells you its the coach

Now english fans are seeing how good these players really are. It was clear for me the squad is lacking a controller in midfield and overall technical ability. A lot of overrated system players in that team.

Too much waffling for what is painfully obvious. Sack Southgate.

Most of the underdog nations have players and coaches that are not overrated and resilient. They don’t give up easily and not complacent in anyway. Southgate is definitely a poor coach but come on those guys should show some desire and passion.

Bellingham is the most overrated player I've ever seen in my life.. Does nothing but run around like a marathon runner with some small technical ability and a huge English PR.. absolute joke that he's even getting talked about..The guy is average asf My God!

Frank has a great point - the players needs resting and most of these coaches have failed to capitalize on that.

He'll get a pass because they topped the group. They'll scrape the next match, then lose the one after. Textbook England.

Southgate is on £5m a year.

Watkins on for Kane in second half next game please.

Let this performance be a lesson to stive and many pundits around the world don't hate players and use them as scapegoats imagine if Trent start everyone will blame him rather than pointing the real problem

Me as german I'm not laughing about the performance of England. I'm watching every week the Prem and I like England. We'll see how it is at the knockout stage.

Gordon on for Bellingham was the change SCREAMING to be made for 50 minutes. Foden looked good in the middle. Palmer added things when he came on. Bellingham added not much really. Looked weary.

Players are responsible unless it’s Ten Hag

It takes those guys 3 games to figure out what other people figured out years ago, yet they are "pundits".

In every tournament , They always play in their level . Not media hype levels though

What’s Jude Bellingham actually good at?

But if it's ten Hag, it's all on his head.

Back to square 1. Gallagher does not work, Mainoo does no work… both has zero creativity and not create a single chance. At least when Trent plays, he creates chances.

Southgate is not a coach lol He had the chance to change the front 3 for this game and didn't. Folden, and Saka should been coming off the bench for this game only

Guys, hold your horses. This thing will start next weekend. Never in my lifetime a nation won a EC/WC with a minimum of 16 nations, by winning all games. In fact it always have been like a Marathon. You start too fast, fat chance you won't finish. Since Germany 1974, where Germany started with a 0-1 loss against DDR of all teams, never a nation won all games, or even played well all games. On the contrary. The best nations in the group stage usually fail to win the tournament. That said, it is hard to imagine at this moment that any of the top nations England, Germany, France, Italy, Belgium and Netherlands can win this. Only Spain is top and Portugal Oke but that is hardly a guaranty for succes.

John stones or stoned sideway or backwards , each touch

SOUTHGATE OUT !!!!!!!!!!!

Why is it in modern Britain the English football team is the only thing we hold to high standard. We're content being mid at everything else. (My point is that we should be have these high standards for our schools, employment etc.)

But I thought Bellingham was the next Zidane for these learned guys! Jude not the Dude they all thought he was!

England, Netherlands and France have been terrible in the group stages.

How is getting into the knockout stage topping the group, how is that not good enough?

If Southgate could only listen to Steve

Ofc bellingham gets excuses because of the system, but everyone is is to blame

England Football Team is like our Country under Labor and Conservatives Broken Nothing works and Embarrassing 😅😅👎🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿

Austria rested players and didnt play important 1st team players with YCs and still won the group...

This discussion didn’t age very well Stevie eh?…..😂😂😂😂 come on England!!! Semi finals!!

England and France not looking good so far 🤔

He contradicts his own argument. If all those players he named are top players for their clubs, how is it that all of them coincidentally play badly at the same time for England? It isn't their fault. There is something else running across all of them creating the issue.

These people aren't pundits they are critics not supporters

this is the real southgate..clueless, useless, zero tactics riding on luck. all those semi final & final are pure luck. united could use that luck this season coming up. do your job sir rat & get your man in!

England lacks cohesion... everyone is lost.. including the manager 😅

Ladies and gentlemen,you are now witnessing the show where a donkey plays Beethoven's 5th symphony on the world's best piano😂😂😂.

I’m still waiting for this amazing Europes best player Jude Bellingham to turn up last 2 games he’s been terrible

It’s baffling on so many levels. Where do you start ? I just don’t understand why Bellingham can’t pass, he plays for Real Madrid and he can’t make any sort of pass.

expectations are way too high.This is typical england, its been happening for decades. the venom from fans and so called pundits towards the players and southgate is disgusting

I can't tell you how much I love watching the espn fc brits [and brit adjacent] eat their own young on this show after watching England play. Especially Old Man Stevie 🤣🤣🤣😅 I wonder if he... or Dan for that matter will ever just come out and say it? Maybe... just maybe... the English players aren't as good as they think they are? I mean, at their clubs they're surrounded by many of the best footballers from around the world. They're managed by the greatest from everywhere *except* England. Maybe this isn't really such a surprise. Maybe when it's just them, without being propped up by the rest of the world's talent, they're just not all that good.

England head coach has been sleeping in training sessions, he doesn’t know how to train

Only Southgate could make wold class player like Bellingham look average - why - because he has no idea what his role is

Southgate why can he see what is so obvious that everyone is talking about, Jude and Foden are always non-existent almost everyone is poor

Leaves Grealish and Phillips at home, wastes talent of some of the worlds best players and blames supporters who paid ten grand to watch this shitfest when they rightfully complain.

Bellingham is worrying me ,I'm guessing he's a massive Deva.

You talking about england all day long but how about slovenia. They are good side

Gallagher is not an international player. Palmer must start

Didnt England go through this same phase a few years ago..world class players, golden generation blah blah and nothing to show for..remember the gerrard lampard rooney days

Its not coming home... England going home😂

Stevie doesn't know much about soccer. I seen a clip from the last Euro where he said Italy had no chance. This guy knows nothing, get him off.

It’s “coming home”….to Austria.

Whatever it is, England will get knocked out in the round of 16

Shaka is back!

English media is responsible for England's players. Even the player is not so good but English media will make him best player of the world. Example Bellingham, does he really very good , NO. Do u really think Foden is so good !!!

Scott Mcbellingham is a scrub!!!!

Hype up an average team and then complain about their performance. English tactics at work. They just don’t learn. These clowns actually think England is a good team.

Agree but it's the group stage....don't be a plonka all your life

Jude is overrated simple.. was never a top man at Madrid foden is the best player

Hey hey guys, thus is the team u were sure would roll over every team and had 1 hand on the trophy already. So yeah the worst is yet to come.😂

Eng out next round😅

When soldiers are failing constantly the mistake comes from their Commander -Tywin Lannister. Southgate is the weak clueless Commander that’s why England are not impressive. I hope this tournament is his last as England Manager

I don't like the English

Not good enough?? You mean you guys are not good any at all..

Shoulda Coulda blah blah blah….

Steve should dump this clown show,he's sounding to nice.

BELINGHAM IS OVERRATED FOR REAL IM A MADRID FAN AND IVE BEEN SAYING THIS SINCE HE WAS AT DORTMUND HE'S A VERY LUCKY BOY THATS JUST WHAT HE IS HE'S NOT THAT GOOD

I believe England has very good players and they'll even get better if only they put a good manager who would guide them to find that spark and national pride. I still do not understand how they let this manager be still here for 8long years? He is such an average coach that is still experimenting on making the players uncomfortable by playing them out of their natural position. What the heck is that all about 🤷‍♂️

Jude is a hero, not a midfielder!

Jude is slowly starting to get exposed. I told you all along!

I agree with that little Scottish lesbian grandma

Kane is a great player, one of English football's best ever, but as a captain, there needs to be someone better at it. He doesn't get his fellow players up. He couldn't seem to at Tottenham which could go really down sometimes. He isn't with the national team either.

England's performance are just like all of ESPN FC pundits - Not good enough.

Steve Nicol "dont blame the manager, blame the players. The same Steve Nicol when it comes to Man Utd "Dont blame the players, its all on ETH". What a wanker, if you have no standards, at least have some consistency

They are having the problem Argentina had, the wants to build a team around Jude, move him deep, play Foden in the middle, Gordon on the left. Solve

5 points from that group is an embarrassment. The style of play is an embarrassment. Players not doing the basics is an embarrassment. Need I go on…

When a coach believes he needs Declan Rice and Gallagher against Slovenia and doesn't have the guts to start with Cole Palmer, you don't need to blame tired players for not performing.

Palmer was the best player for England. Give him some respect and start him next game!

Manager manager manager give the same treatment you did to ETH an actual tactician

Theres a reason England haven't won anything in 60 years. Overrated overhyped overpaid players

You really need to score and win against Slovenia.

now you English dudes will agree with me that stealing was the player south gate had ever and you never respected the guy shout to Rahim

Manager is the problem Stevie……it’s 95% tactics. Player playing out of position with no clear directive.

Saka is slow and lacks stamina. Bellingham is a #8; Rice is a defender. Foden is a system player. Kane can't win big games. England desperately needs to produce it's own Xabi, Pirlo, Zidane, Modric, Kroos before ir can ever stop embarrassing itself on the global stage. And even though the English blue collar fan base lack any education, England need players with "intelligence".