England are miles away from the worlds best. Defensively so poor and confused and imbalanced in attack.

Friendly aside that was a piss poor performance.

We’ve gone backwards since lion-heart Sir Gareth left. Tuchit Out!

Think this signing perfectly sums up where we are as a club. To me, it's feckin obvious we need to sign players and lots of them too given the anticipated exodus, so there's no real positive in this signing. He's supposed to be quick but looking at the guy he's going to be on his backside outside the Riverside on many occasions - looks physically weak and unsuitable for the intensity and physicality of the Championship. Good luck lad, think you'll feckin need it.

He says in his first interview he needs to work on his duels, so you might be right on the physical side there.

I believe they should be. Looking forward to some of that famous chaddyland logic to come avalanching down.

A massive improvement for this club's approach.

To be fair, if we'd have just dumped a sack of spuds on the goal line it would look much more assured than Pears.

Should have known he was a mix of crap and unnecessary………………….

Do you not think Brazil should be managed by a Brazilian?

First thoughts on this signing other than he looks like he hasn't slept in a while is that I worry he may be a bit lightweight for the championship. I'm just speculating, we won't know until he plays of course. He just looks like a half decent championship defender would snap him in half. Onwards...only about 9 or 10 other players to bring in 😂

This lad should have been in the nets all season. Highly likely we'd have finished in the playoffs had he been in there rather than the walking disaster that is Pears. Great that he's got a start for Hungary.

It's access journalism. If he starts reporting about what is happening then the LET will lose access to the club. Given the fact Rovers are the only thing keeping the LET afloat, there will never be any kind of investigative stories on this matter from them. If they lost access to Rovers all's they've got is headlines like "EXCLUSIVE! Woman Fights Her Three Year Old Son Over £10 Bag Of Heroin"

@K-Hod was right, defo from Rishton this lad. I grew up there so I should know!

Triple sub so you’d think just pre planned, pleased for the lad

Riverside is fantastic. Try it.

I know Adam Wharton is unfit but there is nobody in an England shirt or the current squad , who can take a ball off the keeper / back four , on the turn and play a forward ball. Tuchal needs to see where the deep lying problems are…..the answer definitely is not Jordan Henderson or Connor Gallagher …

I dont think I was too unfair, especially as I essentially reserved judgement on 2 of the 4. Gueye for the majority of the season was really poor. He did have a decent run of games but that proved the anomoly and it didnt last for 3 months. I dont rate him personally, he only scored 6 goals and of our 19 league wins, only 6 came in the 23 he started. Toth in his initial games was really shaky but looked much better in the last 4 or 5 games, albeit he was rarely tested as we reverted to being excellent defensively. Like with Kargbo, there is something to cling to in terms of something to build on but neither has proven themselves as a success yet, for circumstances beyond their control. Either way, I certainly dont see evidence in our foreign recruitment to just assume theyll get it right. I disagree. As mentioned above, poor goal record (worse than all but one of your mate Gallagher's seasons here), we won significantly less games when he started and he was a liability more often than not.

The riverside has buried many a player it has to be the miserablest stand in the league 🤣

Another slooow first half from England against a lively senegalese side.

ffs ...i'm just happy we signed someone before selling someone .... AND the FAX is working

Just to throw another grenade in, at a family funeral in St Helens I got told he lives there. Not a million from Ormskirk to be fair.

Gueye has also been a good pick up for the cost.

Ohashi was very good, but you're being unfair on the others, Kargbo is an unknown after a couple of cameos, but Gueye was our best player in Jan-Mar until Ismael joined, and Toth looks a much more assured keeper than Pears.

Would be similar to his Barnsley side which made the playoffs, so would make sense. Was also on a strict budget there. Kargbo was a 10 at Cesena, so deffo fits there, and can imagine he'd be a good foil for Cantwell.