Since 2008, it's been won by Ronaldo 5 times, Messi 8 time, Modric and Benzema 1 times each. We're now in 2024. It's a stupid award. Thierry Henry not winning it in 2003 was a travesty and was to show what it was to become.
@@gentleken7864VVD and Haaland not winning was also travesty and there is a clear agenda not to allow the most popular league to have the Balon Dor because they feel they need to use it to promote less popular leagues.
Having watched England play for 45 years , I agree that one of their traditional errors has been to try and sit on a slender lead, instead of trying to score more goals. I also agree that Southgate makes subs far too late in games. Even when players are clearly tired , or carrying an injury , he doesn't replace them straight away. A tired or injured player is a useless player.
I’ve been watching almost as long as you and I kinda disagree. I always saw England’s biggest problems in tournaments was defensive mishaps and letting the occasion get the better of them. The last euros we conceded two goals the entire tournament,I saw us ship 5 goals in one game in previous tournaments. Do I think Southgate could be better tactically ? Yes But has he excelled at all sorts of other integral things at international management ? Yes
@brandonking2679 I give Gareth lots of credit for many good things he has done to get England up to No 3 in FIFA World rankings . There has been a revolution at St George's Park in player development, and man management. And he has now brought in young talent into the squad , and dropped established players, so much of the criticism against him has been unwarranted. In the past , England tried to play possession football when they weren't really good at it, and certainly did try to protect slender leads.
As an Italian fan, Golden Goal was a disgrace, and that time added on was ridiculous too! Guess what they got rid of Golden goal after that, what a surprise!
Del Piero should have killed off the game, but wasted a few great chances. If I remember correctly, Desailly should have been sent off for an elbow on Cannavaro. It's such a pity because Totti had his best game in an Italy shirt by far and Maldini was a few seconds from getting a well deserved first International trophy.
Italy receiving more talk than Portugal is criminal. Opposing to england or Spain, we dont have any flaws in any sector, we are competetive in every part of the field, apart from the. depth and choices, this is a clear contender that should be receiving much more talk
Calm down no one cares. Portugal are good but they’re almost never clutch. Italy can sometimes suck, but they’ve also proven to win big games, and finals. That’s the difference. Portugal are in a better position than Italy right now, but Italy’s pedigree matters.
@@Sousa_o7 is that really your argument? Italy missed a WC then immediately won a major trophy following a catastrophic failure. If that’s not proof that Italy is a team you don’t write off, nothing is. Yes they are clutch. Two trophies and three finals in the 21st century. Only Spain has done better. How many trophies does Portugal have?
Credit to jules for shouting out portugal they aren't as dynamic as france with size and speed, but depth of quality and skill as he mentioned at every position. Cant wait!!! Clean sheets and opportunistic finishing wins jules is spot on. Argentina showed how to beat them as a block in back and outrageous quality in mf. Nobody has dibu,otamendi,romero, lisandro in back but portugal, spain, england and even germany could get better of possession problem is they can play on counter comfortably and get 3 in ten minutes .... they look like a nightmare. Tres forte....but vamos selecao
An England in transition? The starting 11 will undoubtedly include Stones, Walker, Pickford, Rice, Foden, Saka, Bellingham and Kane. They've all been starting for donkey's, there's no transition. Trent and Grealish will probably be coming off the bench as well, two players who have a decent amount of caps for England. I'd say this England team is pretty experienced actually.
@@jacob4690Germany are hosts....they may not currently be the powerhouse they use to but playing at home always makes you unleash a better performance. Will they win? If we are going off history then the odds don't favour them.. Since Euro 2000 3 nations reached the final on their home soil & lost Portugal Euro 2004 France Euro 2016 England Euro 2020 But to write them off is moronic, same goes for Portugal who are always written off but. But since Euro 2000 they have reached 4 Euro Semi Finals & 2 Euro Finals.
England have the deepest squad in world football now, so should win, but I know they won’t because of Southgate. He is appalling at in-game management, too cautious in tactical line ups, doesn’t know how to coach attacking patterns of play and his eye for a players is pretty bad. Southgate has created a defensive vulnerability in England because he insists in picking players like Dunk and Maguire who are slow defenders like he was meaning England can’t play a high line to make their press more effective and England have plenty of young fast centre-backs who should have replaced Maguire long ago,
I agree that England are actually weaker than they were last time. From the midfield onwards they have become better, but they have become weaker in defence and their offence was fine before already. Basically, it became less balanced and more offensive, but I don't think Southgate is an offensive coach. In terms of squad strength, this is my top 5 at the Euros: *1. France* (Best squad in the world. Virtually no weaknesses.) *2. Portugal* (Second-best squad in the world. Also, virtually no weaknesses.) *3. Spain* (Nearly equal to Germany.) *4. Germany* (Nearly equal to Spain.) *5. England* (See above.) P.S. Squad strength does not mean best team.
Well you never know. Back in 2018 nobody expected England to do that well and then Maguire stepped up big time to the surprise of many. Maybe this time there will be new defenders who step up on the big stage
@Noob-hb8vs well they got further than we all thought, let's all be honest about it. Nobody seriously expected England to get to semis in 2018 and final in Euro 2021 no matter the opposition. But because they were closer than we thought they would get it raised expectations and we wanted more. It was almost more hurtful getting closer to success.
Portugal would be among the favourites if it wasn't for Roberto Martinez. The man is tactically naive, and his teams always seem to crack when faced with adversity.
Southgate is the problem and will be again.Tactically because of the coaching theyre terrible. Yesterday he played two right wingers in the first half.Hes tactically inept
where can I see the part they mention Portugal? Having huge sections to discuss this Italy and Spain is quite ignorant of these so called journalists tbh. Italy simply has a poor team this time and Spain has an extremely young and unbalanced team. The clear contenders are France and England. And then Germany (home advantage) and Portugal (strongest squad after France and England).
Morata scored the same number of goals as Vinicius but in a weaker team....nobody talks about him. and neither are they talking about Dovbyk from the Ucraine.
Spain's problem is that it has a lot of players that do well for marketing but dont have the numbers to back the excitement. Most of their potential starting players are from teams that didnt do well this year and played for the professional excuse maker, Xavi. Yes, they win but they havent played against good teams. Lost to colombia, tied to a terrible brazil, and those were friendlies. Last good game was against Croatia last year and went to penalties.
I love it when no one talks about Portugal at all or bad mouths us like the Italian fool on here .......keep going !! Boa Sorte to roberto and the guys .......bring it back to Lisboa
Trippier playing at left back would be tragic. Upamecano and Konate are too similar. They’re crazy not starting Saliba. Bringing back Kante is a mistake too. Upamecano is a disaster waiting to happen. Kroos is sensational, Bayern must be cutting themselves at night letting him go for peanuts.
England 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 why please tell me why exactly they are contenders . Haven't won a meaningful game against a decent team since 1990 . So many obvious weaknesses in the individuals Maguire TAA in defence stones hasn't looked himself since returning from injury . Bellingham massively over rated so is foden easy to do it when you're being spoon fed in super teams completely dominating different story when someone gives you the spoon tells you to feed who Kane ,too SLOW evident in CL .who else is there Saka 😂 Palmer Watkins pl rubbish couldn't kick snow off a rope
I think all the “big” nations are being overrated, besides Portugal. I think there will be some big crash outs in this tournament and teams like Austria, Hungary and Romania are going to do much better than expected.
I'm rubbishing at balancing the books when doing odds so some bookie will say these are rubbish but they give an idea of my order of favouritism. France 7/2 England 9/2 Portugal 9/2 Spain 6/1 Germany 6/1 Netherlands 10/1 Italy 12/1 Belgium 14/1 Croatia 16/1 Denmark 25/1 All others 33/1 or above. I don't think there's been an outstanding European international team since Spain were winning back to back tournaments so there's about ten teams with not a massive amount between them. And if Germany or Italy are still in come the quarters then look out. Both have been fairly bad by their standards in recent times but if they can gather any momentum at all they become dangerous. More so Germany with home support.
Would want Gundogan to win more than Kroos, a guy who’s overachieved in an unbelievably lucky Real Madrid team and is now treated like some sort of Zidane-like player
Kroos deserved it in 2014 and deserves it this year if Germany wins the EURO. The other candidates are Bellingham, Mbappe, Kane, Foden and de Bruyne. ...hopefully not that overrated Vinicius.
@@andrekoerber7334You think De Bryune, who basically missed half of the season has more chance to win Ballon d'or than Vinicius. The level of delusion is through the roof 😅.
Croatia will get to the semi finals at a minimum. England will batter Serbia by 5-6 goals. But they won't win the tournament as usual. Nothing changes. I wasn't born yesterday. 😂😂😂😂
We were literally pens away from winning it last time, I don't think we will win it though. I think Portugal or France will win it, Spain are darkhorses too.
I'd pay to never have to hear Ballon d'Or discussion again
Since 2008, it's been won by Ronaldo 5 times, Messi 8 time, Modric and Benzema 1 times each. We're now in 2024. It's a stupid award. Thierry Henry not winning it in 2003 was a travesty and was to show what it was to become.
@@gentleken7864VVD and Haaland not winning was also travesty and there is a clear agenda not to allow the most popular league to have the Balon Dor because they feel they need to use it to promote less popular leagues.
Or the tired 'world class' debate
With you on that
Hear-bloody-hear. Such a boring twitter-type discussion of an award that's barely based on pure merit.
Having watched England play for 45 years , I agree that one of their traditional errors has been to try and sit on a slender lead, instead of trying to score more goals.
I also agree that Southgate makes subs far too late in games.
Even when players are clearly tired , or carrying an injury , he doesn't replace them straight away.
A tired or injured player is a useless player.
It does seem like they never go for the kill when they are in the lead.
I’ve been watching almost as long as you and I kinda disagree.
I always saw England’s biggest problems in tournaments was defensive mishaps and letting the occasion get the better of them.
The last euros we conceded two goals the entire tournament,I saw us ship 5 goals in one game in previous tournaments.
Do I think Southgate could be better tactically ? Yes
But has he excelled at all sorts of other integral things at international management ? Yes
@brandonking2679 I give Gareth lots of credit for many good things he has done to get England up to No 3 in FIFA World rankings .
There has been a revolution at St George's Park in player development, and man management.
And he has now brought in young talent into the squad , and dropped established players, so much of the criticism against him has been unwarranted.
In the past , England tried to play possession football when they weren't really good at it, and certainly did try to protect slender leads.
@@kimbirch1202Exactly . The criticism Southgate comes in for is way over the top.
Their defence isn't good enough to win a major tournament.
why does james horncastle look like ricky gervais playing bam margera
Nearly choked reading this fjdjfjgdgh
As an Italian fan, Golden Goal was a disgrace, and that time added on was ridiculous too! Guess what they got rid of Golden goal after that, what a surprise!
Yes golden goal was rubbish
Del Piero should have killed off the game, but wasted a few great chances. If I remember correctly, Desailly should have been sent off for an elbow on Cannavaro. It's such a pity because Totti had his best game in an Italy shirt by far and Maldini was a few seconds from getting a well deserved first International trophy.
what a great podcast idea with all the nationalities
Italy is always the X factor in major tournaments!
We are unpredictable😅
James Horncastle with the 'How do you do fellow kids?' backwards cap
James reminds me of David Brent giving his motivational speech in The Office lol.
Simply the best
Portugal
I have zero confidence in Morata. We all remember what he did in previous tournaments, no matter what his numbers say.
Italy receiving more talk than Portugal is criminal. Opposing to england or Spain, we dont have any flaws in any sector, we are competetive in every part of the field, apart from the. depth and choices, this is a clear contender that should be receiving much more talk
Ninguém quer saber, só queres ser falado como condição de ser português. Ganha vergonha.
Calm down no one cares. Portugal are good but they’re almost never clutch. Italy can sometimes suck, but they’ve also proven to win big games, and finals. That’s the difference. Portugal are in a better position than Italy right now, but Italy’s pedigree matters.
Bit harsh on Portugal. They won it in 2016 and have got a fantastic squad, even with an ageing Ronaldo.
@@roccosage8508clutch ? That’s what you say after missing two World Cup in a row ?
@@Sousa_o7 is that really your argument? Italy missed a WC then immediately won a major trophy following a catastrophic failure. If that’s not proof that Italy is a team you don’t write off, nothing is. Yes they are clutch. Two trophies and three finals in the 21st century. Only Spain has done better. How many trophies does Portugal have?
Could honestly listen to Horncastle all day
James's hat needs to be discussed
Was that James!I thought they have invited film director Kevin Smith to the podcast 😂
It's James' alter ego that loves shotgunning cans of Moretti and smoking Neapolitan kush
I’m here for it to stay!
Epic hat
Jules is consistently proved wrong on the defensive issue but he never learns.
James & Silent Bob
Credit to jules for shouting out portugal they aren't as dynamic as france with size and speed, but depth of quality and skill as he mentioned at every position. Cant wait!!! Clean sheets and opportunistic finishing wins jules is spot on.
Argentina showed how to beat them as a block in back and outrageous quality in mf. Nobody has dibu,otamendi,romero, lisandro in back but portugal, spain, england and even germany could get better of possession problem is they can play on counter comfortably and get 3 in ten minutes .... they look like a nightmare. Tres forte....but vamos selecao
Second-best squad in the world right now, if you ask me.
An England in transition? The starting 11 will undoubtedly include Stones, Walker, Pickford, Rice, Foden, Saka, Bellingham and Kane. They've all been starting for donkey's, there's no transition. Trent and Grealish will probably be coming off the bench as well, two players who have a decent amount of caps for England. I'd say this England team is pretty experienced actually.
Bellingham donkeys years he's been in the team 3 years since the last Euros pal, he's only 20 still lol.
@@ChelseaFootballClub1905 Shuddup fool
Portugal. 🇵🇹
Second time watching this, great analysis by all parties, I’ll be back when Italy defend the cup
Shocked Jules didnt finish his Southgate criticisms by christening him "The English Guy" but Horncastle was spot on about that Euro 2021 final 👏🏽
France Portugal and Germany are the favorites to win the Euro.
Germany and Portugal 😂😂😂😂😂😂
@@jacob4690Germany are hosts....they may not currently be the powerhouse they use to but playing at home always makes you unleash a better performance.
Will they win? If we are going off history then the odds don't favour them..
Since Euro 2000
3 nations reached the final on their home soil & lost
Portugal Euro 2004
France Euro 2016
England Euro 2020
But to write them off is moronic, same goes for Portugal who are always written off but.
But since Euro 2000 they have reached
4 Euro Semi Finals & 2 Euro Finals.
Alvaroo master of serie A and laliga taught me alot about asian handicaps
Jules looking real Tan here
Spain don't have a super striker, but Rodri will score. Nico Williams and Lamine Yamal can score. Grimaldo can score.
Morata scored quite a few goals last season.
Jules “a couple of friendlies that are pointless in terms of competition”. Canada slowly backs out of the room
England is always the favourite, even though they have never won it.
😂😂😂😂😂
England haven’t been a favourite for the euros since about 2004. If you think otherwise you probably have dementia.
They're always 'one of the favourites' which doesn't mean very much
England have the deepest squad in world football now, so should win, but I know they won’t because of Southgate. He is appalling at in-game management, too cautious in tactical line ups, doesn’t know how to coach attacking patterns of play and his eye for a players is pretty bad. Southgate has created a defensive vulnerability in England because he insists in picking players like Dunk and Maguire who are slow defenders like he was meaning England can’t play a high line to make their press more effective and England have plenty of young fast centre-backs who should have replaced Maguire long ago,
@@Delboy0 Yeah we defo need gomez and mitchell in left backs, shaw with his injuries is a bit of a risk
You should also discuss copa America?
I agree that England are actually weaker than they were last time. From the midfield onwards they have become better, but they have become weaker in defence and their offence was fine before already. Basically, it became less balanced and more offensive, but I don't think Southgate is an offensive coach.
In terms of squad strength, this is my top 5 at the Euros:
*1. France* (Best squad in the world. Virtually no weaknesses.)
*2. Portugal* (Second-best squad in the world. Also, virtually no weaknesses.)
*3. Spain* (Nearly equal to Germany.)
*4. Germany* (Nearly equal to Spain.)
*5. England* (See above.)
P.S.
Squad strength does not mean best team.
Cubarsi was left out of the final squad.
Well you never know. Back in 2018 nobody expected England to do that well and then Maguire stepped up big time to the surprise of many. Maybe this time there will be new defenders who step up on the big stage
And they still lost
@Noob-hb8vs well they got further than we all thought, let's all be honest about it. Nobody seriously expected England to get to semis in 2018 and final in Euro 2021 no matter the opposition. But because they were closer than we thought they would get it raised expectations and we wanted more. It was almost more hurtful getting closer to success.
Dont forget Austria 😮
Both Havertz and Fullkrug will play.
Portugal would be among the favourites if it wasn't for Roberto Martinez. The man is tactically naive, and his teams always seem to crack when faced with adversity.
Southgate is the problem and will be again.Tactically because of the coaching theyre terrible.
Yesterday he played two right wingers in the first half.Hes tactically inept
Portugal all the way. What a team this Portugal is. England always faill.
Always fail that's why we got further than Portugal at the last Euros? and were only a penalty shootout away from winning it ? lol
@@ChelseaFootballClub1905 second might as well be last.
That's easy France, England, Portugal and Germany.
Correct
Spain dark horses
England don’t beat other big nations and will have to play one in the quarter final if they make. England are going home at quarter final.
where can I see the part they mention Portugal? Having huge sections to discuss this Italy and Spain is quite ignorant of these so called journalists tbh. Italy simply has a poor team this time and Spain has an extremely young and unbalanced team. The clear contenders are France and England. And then Germany (home advantage) and Portugal (strongest squad after France and England).
The Balon Dor is a meaningless award it is basically who Real Madrid and Barcelona pay to win or Messi name recognition.
😂😂You Gracious EPL fans are one of a kind. So tell me which player from the overrated EPL should win?!😂😂
@@antoniovillafranca9065stopped reading at “EPL”
clearly will be France, Mbappe plays way is unstoppable in a counter attack set up
Morata scored the same number of goals as Vinicius but in a weaker team....nobody talks about him. and neither are they talking about Dovbyk from the Ucraine.
Spain's problem is that it has a lot of players that do well for marketing but dont have the numbers to back the excitement. Most of their potential starting players are from teams that didnt do well this year and played for the professional excuse maker, Xavi. Yes, they win but they havent played against good teams. Lost to colombia, tied to a terrible brazil, and those were friendlies. Last good game was against Croatia last year and went to penalties.
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💯 💯 🤔 🤓
Gnabry? I don‘t think hes nominted for Germany … pundits … well prepared
19:00 penalties have always been a big thing in tournament football
girls you got a million Turks living in england, why you ignoring this massive community?
France then Germany then Portugal....then England. Anyone saying England are favourites is a bit drunk.
Portugal are dark horses
not really dark horses. They are 7-1.
Saliba is better than Upamecano. It should be Konate and Saliba. Kounde I don't trust. Theo Hernandez is great .
I love it when no one talks about Portugal at all or bad mouths us like the Italian fool on here .......keep going !! Boa Sorte to roberto and the guys .......bring it back to Lisboa
I also love Golden Goal. I feel like it’s the best way to end a game. Walk off goal.
Good guys, buy why not mentioning "small" teams like Serbia, Georgia or Slovenia?
Because the whole point of this discussion is to talk about the favourites...
Because this is only part one I believe
Julien Lauren!
Not England, we've go no chance
No more recconendations
James, why the f**k are you wearing a baseball cap backwards? 🙈
I'm gonna take an educated guess and say he's had a hairline transplant and he's covering it up whilst it's healing 🤔
People are seriously sleeping on The Netherlands.
What exactly did they achieve the last 20 years?
Trippier playing at left back would be tragic.
Upamecano and Konate are too similar. They’re crazy not starting Saliba. Bringing back Kante is a mistake too. Upamecano is a disaster waiting to happen.
Kroos is sensational, Bayern must be cutting themselves at night letting him go for peanuts.
There is no way anyone can say that England is an Favourite. They even lost to fuc*ing Iceland 😂😂
Ben white!
Germany, France, Spain, Italy. Outside chance for Netherlands, Portugal
Portugal only as outsiders ?. 😮
Netherlands will struggle in their group with Franca and Austria with Koeman as manager imo
@ChelseaFootballClub1905 no not really
Has James lost a bet to wear that hat?
Mbappe unstopable
france england portgul germany spain netherlands crotia italy belgium in that order of chances winning the euros in my opinion
England 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 why please tell me why exactly they are contenders . Haven't won a meaningful game against a decent team since 1990 . So many obvious weaknesses in the individuals Maguire TAA in defence stones hasn't looked himself since returning from injury . Bellingham massively over rated so is foden easy to do it when you're being spoon fed in super teams completely dominating different story when someone gives you the spoon tells you to feed who Kane ,too SLOW evident in CL .who else is there Saka 😂 Palmer Watkins pl rubbish couldn't kick snow off a rope
@@harrygregg9551 Are you on crack mate? We were runners up and pens away from winning it last time you crackhead lol
I think all the “big” nations are being overrated, besides Portugal. I think there will be some big crash outs in this tournament and teams like Austria, Hungary and Romania are going to do much better than expected.
I think this is a great shout
True that
I'm rubbishing at balancing the books when doing odds so some bookie will say these are rubbish but they give an idea of my order of favouritism.
France 7/2
England 9/2
Portugal 9/2
Spain 6/1
Germany 6/1
Netherlands 10/1
Italy 12/1
Belgium 14/1
Croatia 16/1
Denmark 25/1
All others 33/1 or above.
I don't think there's been an outstanding European international team since Spain were winning back to back tournaments so there's about ten teams with not a massive amount between them. And if Germany or Italy are still in come the quarters then look out. Both have been fairly bad by their standards in recent times but if they can gather any momentum at all they become dangerous. More so Germany with home support.
I really hope Julien Laurens's cocky chickens come home to roost.
Would want Gundogan to win more than Kroos, a guy who’s overachieved in an unbelievably lucky Real Madrid team and is now treated like some sort of Zidane-like player
Kroos deserved it in 2014 and deserves it this year if Germany wins the EURO. The other candidates are Bellingham, Mbappe, Kane, Foden and de Bruyne. ...hopefully not that overrated Vinicius.
@@andrekoerber7334You think De Bryune, who basically missed half of the season has more chance to win Ballon d'or than Vinicius. The level of delusion is through the roof 😅.
Worst italian team ever.
portugal didn't play anyone in qualifyers
So did most of the big teams don’t be stupid.
that's pretty much what all the European qualifying groups are like.
Julien Laurens can be insufferable.
Foden is the most skillful player in the world
lmao
😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
Croatia will get to the semi finals at a minimum. England will batter Serbia by 5-6 goals. But they won't win the tournament as usual. Nothing changes. I wasn't born yesterday. 😂😂😂😂
nema potrebe da se kurčimo. budimo tihi i ponizni.
@@ihghjghpa nije kurcenje. Sve ispod tri gola razlike za Englesku je cudo.
@@bandini7541 ne govorim o tome, nego o našem "minimum" polufinalu.
We were literally pens away from winning it last time, I don't think we will win it though. I think Portugal or France will win it, Spain are darkhorses too.
I really think Spain is winning this
They'll look cute and skillful until the quarters