Baines top player & a decent human being,hope he soon gets the nod over ashley cole,I think joe public as had enough of cole, grabbing the headlines for all the wrong reasons,he will never learn will cole,just a multi millionaire prick
I just don’t see what all the fuss is about with Baines, he’s average at best…ok hes pretty good going forward but he can’t defend to save his life and he gets a lot of help of Pienaar.
Love or hate Ashley Cole he’s the one world class player we have win the England team that seems to perform consistently.
Average my arse .Top defender and good at going forward.Baines for me over Cole.Good luck to the lad and he is a decent guy off the pitch also.had the pleasure of a chat with the guy in a Liverpool coffee shop a few weeks ago.He will be one of Fergies men next year ;)
I just don’t see what all the fuss is about with Baines, he’s average at best…ok hes pretty good going forward but he can’t defend to save his life and he gets a lot of help of Pienaar.
Love or hate Ashley Cole he’s the one world class player we have win the England team that seems to perform consistently.
Absolutely this. I love what Leights did for us but he’s not even in the same league as Cole.
I just don’t see what all the fuss is about with Baines, he’s average at best…ok hes pretty good going forward but he can’t defend to save his life and he gets a lot of help of Pienaar.
Love or hate Ashley Cole he’s the one world class player we have win the England team that seems to perform consistently.
Absolutely this. I love what Leights did for us but he’s not even in the same league as Cole.[/quote]
I had a feeling you would latch on to this exact thread!
Baines has been statistically better than cole for the past 3 seasons.
And this season he is without a doubt one of the top performers in the PL.
I dont care how many medals Cole has got, that is all in the past.
Baines is the here and now LB and if he is not a shoe in for the England team based on his current form then I would seriosuly question the selection process for England.
The “professionals” in and around the England set up are constantly bemoaning a lack of prospect of young players coming into the team yet when players like Zaha at tin pot clubs like Crystal Palace will never get a look in you can see where that problem comes from ;)
I just don’t see what all the fuss is about with Baines, he’s average at best…ok hes pretty good going forward but he can’t defend to save his life and he gets a lot of help of Pienaar.
Love or hate Ashley Cole he’s the one world class player we have win the England team that seems to perform consistently.
Absolutely this. I love what Leights did for us but he’s not even in the same league as Cole.[/quote]
I had a feeling you would latch on to this exact thread!
Baines has been statistically better than cole for the past 3 seasons.
And this season he is without a doubt one of the top performers in the PL.
I dont care how many medals Cole has got, that is all in the past.
Baines is the here and now LB and if he is not a shoe in for the England team based on his current form then I would seriosuly question the selection process for England.
The “professionals” in and around the England set up are constantly bemoaning a lack of prospect of young players coming into the team yet when players like Zaha at tin pot clubs like Crystal Palace will never get a look in you can see where that problem comes from ;)[/quote]
These comments make me laugh. You were saying the opposite when we discussed the matter in the Sauna at Swinton Leisure Centre earlier in the week.
Cole is 31. If we want to have any chance of putting together a squad that is used to playing with each other (pardon the expression) and capable of winning things in the future, we have to start putting out teams of players in the 20’s only now. There is not a great deal to choice between in terms of quality in Leighton Baines and Ashley Cole. One of them is about 5 years younger. How is there any sort of contest when choosing who to pick? Oh wait, yeah, one of the plays for Everton…