The Rondo - England Best World Cup XI

Today, we are building England's best potential start of 11 for the 2026 World Cup

Are they good enough to win it? Let's find out. No. I'll get right into it

No. All right, goalkeeper. Who are you starting at goalkeeper? Jordan Pickford. Jordan Pickford, no need to over-intellectualize it

The thing is, when Jordan Pickford plays for England, he turns into, like, prime Neuer

And I don't know why or how, but I enjoy it. Yeah, you have those guys that just show up for the national team like that, man

Yeah, it's just kind of a subset of players that's good for the club, whatever, and then they get him for the national team

Speaking of, our centre-backs, starting with Harry Maguire. No. No, you're not starting Harry Maguire

No, no, no. I'm not starting Harry Maguire. I'm starting Harry Maguire

You're starting Harry Maguire. I'm starting Harry Maguire. What percent British are you

My mom's side from Torquay. So what, 25%, 50%? Yeah, 50%. Both of her parents were British

You're a traitor. Nah, dude. Harry Maguire is another one of those guys who turns it on when he plays for England

No, no, no, no, no, no, no. It's Mark Goyhee and Esri Konsa

No. Gahee and Harry Maguire for me. Really? Yeah, I'm not kidding

Bro, bro, do you want England to lose? No, no, no. Edit the eagle and like Pulisic with a gun

and like all of that's behind Colton right now. He's just being too patriotic

We'll stack it up on the graphic and have both of those guys in there. It's a triple pivot center back

Right back. Who are you starting at right back? Trent Alec. Washed

Rhys James, right? You're actually not starting Trent? Of course I'm not signing Trent, he's a traitor

This guy doesn't want to win the football. This guy doesn't want to win the football. No, no, no, no

Trent Alexander-Arnold is a wonderful footballer and he should absolutely be in the squad, but he hasn't played consistently for six months

Yeah, that's right. And he still hasn't kind of done his thing under Tuchel, and let's face it, like, managers pick the guys

that have performed for them And Rhys James has been good for England in a way that Trent Alexander hasn Plus he overrated can defend Left back I was going to say do I have to change to the Liverpool shirt when I say that Left

back is tough. I don't know. England only have one left-footed left back who has consistently

played for Tuchel, and it's Miles Lewis-Skelly. But is he good enough? I don't know

He's also incredible. How old is he now? Still a teenager, isn't he? Yeah, 19. So I'll go Louis Skelly, but I don't feel confident about it, which is a scary

If you want someone who's got a little bit more experience than them who are you putting in probably Luke Shaw

But like I still got it I still got it The thing is like I feel bad for Luke Shaw though because I saw a compilation recently of all the times that Jose Mourinho called him fat in different ways

Do you know how awful that is? Your manager's literally just fat shaming you

Like you can turn in a pretty good performance and Jose's like well you see the thing about Luke is that he

is carrying a bit too much weight. It's like, what the f***? Yeah, bro, you got a two

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We're playing a 4-3-3, so we got three midfielders to pick from. Who are you going in the center

I've got like a base midfield. You ready? Yeah. Elliot Anderson. Okay

Declan Rice. Yeah. Jude Bellingham. Yeah, that's a great midfield. Elliot Anderson

Elliot Anderson. He's on the come-up right now. He is on the come-up. The funny thing about Elliot Anderson is that

you know how most national teams have like a dude who doesn't necessarily play for a massive club

but you put him in the team and it's like, whoa, he just does a job. Argentina have a lot of guys like that

You know, Argentina's whole squad, including this guy from like South Florida. He's kind of a low profile dude

Messy joke for you. Small indie band. Non-ball knowers out there. This guy gets it

No, but Elliot Anderson does that job. Plays a little defensive mid, which means Declan Rice and Jude Bellingham

can go and do fun stuff with the ball Fun things yeah no great Fun things that my soccer intellectualization You have three up top This might be where England best Who starting up top First of all miss me with Nicole Palmer

Off the bench? Miss me with Phil Foden. Unfortunately, off the bench

Bakayo Saka. Okay. Harry Kane. And then Anthony Gordon? Yeah. Over Nicole Palmer and Phil Foden

Yeah, yeah. Gross. You need someone who can be speedy and give you width and be fun

Anthony Gordon has s*** hair, but he's fun. Yeah, respect. He can stretch the defense, if you will

The thing is, though, is that I feel like you maybe miss Marcus Rashford there

who is cooking for Barcelona. But I think Gordon probably gives you, I don't know, a bit more speed

because Rashford's lost a step, for sure. And you need someone to stretch the defense

especially if Harry Kane is going to decide that he doesn't want to play striker. That's a really good group to bring off the bench, though

if you need them in a position. So that... Bowden, Cole Palmer... Mid

mid. Bowden, Palmer, Oli Watkins. Morgan Rogers. By the way, that is the stupidest thing

People don't even know Morgan Rogers should start for England. Have you watched Jude Bellingham

If you say that, it's like, you just... I think the problem is that

most of the English media just does not watch La Liga. So they only see Jude Bellingham when he

plays for England, and if Jude Bellingham isn't absolutely cracked when he plays for England

they're like, this guy's rubbish. He's overrated. Yeah, yeah, yeah. This England team, is it the most

talented at the World Cup, or is it the most biased the way people talk about it because most of them play in the Premier League? I think it's

the most biased. I think part of the problem is that like you know how for a lot of big teams so

say Spain, France, Argentina even like if those are your group of favorites their players play all

over the world. English players for the most part just play in the Premier League. Like if you think

about that England lineup it's Harry Kane plays in the Bundesliga and people are just like oh well

like they see the stats they like oh whatever and Jude Bellingham plays in La Liga Am I missing because it feels like otherwise that a premier league team i mean rashford rashford but like people just like the premier

league is the best league in the world which i think which i genuinely believe is true a second

actually after a major league soccer yeah right um but we see all of our players play in the

premier league therefore this is the best team realistically where does this england team finish

at the World Cup. Realistically. Yeah, realistically. You're asking an England fan

to be realistic. Can I just hammer home what you just asked

If I ask you a real prediction, you'll say that you guys will crash out in the semifinals on penalties after losing a game

you should have won. Yeah. Yeah. Okay. That's the prediction. So that's it

I think England will lose in the semis, but they should win

The whole thing. Yeah, they should win. They're very capable of winning the entire thing. They are very capable

of winning the entire thing and they have the manager to do so. All of the pieces

are in place, which is why they will lose in the semis. Do you know what I mean

They should win it, which is why they're not going to. Right. If they maybe could, then they have a better chance of winning it

But now that they should win it, they certainly won't. Honorable mentions. Are there any fringe players in the squad that should make it in that might not

Curtis Jones, I think, is like, I think he's been like one of the bright spots for Liverpool

but there have been very few of those. But I think he deserves a shot, but I'm not sure he'll get a look

It's probably the most obvious one. And then maybe Nani Madweke on the right as well

He's been a really good presence for Arsenal. But yeah, he's like one of those guys who hasn't quite impressed enough

The one that sucks actually is a Bari Eze is good enough to start

But because Jude Bellingham, Morgan Rodgers, Phil Foden, Cole Palmer, he's not sniffing

He doesn't get in over those guys in terms of playing time? Nope. Not over Palmer and not over Foden

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