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Interested in thoughts on James Maddison, some negative press regarding him.

In summary he leaves the England camp due to illness before they travelled for their game on Friday.

He’s seen in a casino playing poker on Friday night when England were playing. No reports of him drinking or playing up.

What’s your views? For me he’s entitled to do what he wants in his spare time, surely the England medical staff would have agreed for him not to travel.

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True but common sense would say its best not being seen out in a casino if its all in the press that you've pulled out because of 'illness', especially when he's been teetering on breaking into the England squad. I don't get why you'd pull out, then go to a casino? Surely every English player has the dream of playing for their country? 

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31 minutes ago, Northern Red said:

Not the most sensible move if he's trying to encourage Southgate to pick him, I'd suggest.

I also reckon people wouldn't be quite as forgiving if it was a player who's been getting criticised often, e.g Dele Alli or Jesse Lingard.

Apparently Southgate has huge doubts about his character, he so say left him out of the two previous games to see how he would respond.

This guy seems to have all the ability to go far in the game but like many before him will ruin his career by his off the field activities.

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Always comes over as a pretty smart young guy when I've seen him talk, and I like him. I think the media scrutiny level nowadays has gone overboard and we all need to realise that footballers are people first and footballers second regardless of how much they are paid, etc etc

 

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8 hours ago, Up The City! said:

Apparently Southgate has huge doubts about his character, he so say left him out of the two previous games to see how he would respond.

This guy seems to have all the ability to go far in the game but like many before him will ruin his career by his off the field activities.

Southgate said he wasn't in because he didn't fit the system of 433. Now Leicester play that system Maddison made the squad but obviously out ill.

I personally am not sure he will be that great at international level. He didn't impress me much in England under 21 tournament. You'd think he'd stand out at that level. Good player but just not sure he will be as good as people think for England.

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11 hours ago, Up The City! said:

Apparently Southgate has huge doubts about his character, he so say left him out of the two previous games to see how he would respond.

This guy seems to have all the ability to go far in the game but like many before him will ruin his career by his off the field activities.

Would you care to share his off field activities that you think will ruin his career?  

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5 minutes ago, Mr Popodopolous said:

Was he the worse for wear as well as up late?

Can't say I agree with that tbh- fairly sure I read somewhere that Messi e.g. doesn't drink during the season, or maybe it was Ronaldo.

If you want to reach your highest ceiling as a player you need an elite mindset IMO.

He wasn’t drinking alcohol and I don’t believe he was up late either. Think it was just an evening game of cards. 

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5 minutes ago, Mr Popodopolous said:

We know for sure he had no alcohol?

Depends how late he was and whether there was alcohol involved I think.

I read an article that said he wasn’t drinking. The Sun’s one sided vile article on him doesn’t mention drink so he couldn’t have been as they would have mentioned it.

He was playing whilst the England game was on so it wasn’t late. 

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4 minutes ago, RedDave said:

I read an article that said he wasn’t drinking. The Sun’s one sided vile article on him doesn’t mention drink so he couldn’t have been as they would have mentioned it.

He was playing whilst the England game was on so it wasn’t late. 

Not read the article in The Sun yet- sounds like I am not missing much.

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Have no idea if this thread is true, but if so, my thoughts are why couldn't he have waited until Saturday night?  Shows a lack of common sense and possibly a gambling addiction, which could be a concern.

Call me crazy, but if I was home ill, I'd stay in doors and rest.  The media and scrutiny in this country is hardly a new thing, is it?

I'd be pretty pissed off if I was the England manager.

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6 hours ago, RedDave said:

I read an article that said he wasn’t drinking. The Sun’s one sided vile article on him doesn’t mention drink so he couldn’t have been as they would have mentioned it.

He was playing whilst the England game was on so it wasn’t late. 

I think the issue was he pulled out because he was ill. And he was clearly not ill

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