Ale Moreno GOES ON A RANT about the Premier League 😳 | ESPN FC

Ale Moreno, Steve Nicol, Shaka Hislop and Jurgen Klinsmann join Dan Thomas on ESPN FC to discuss Gareth Southgate defending his decision to play John Stones in England's international friendly vs. Belgium when Ale decides to unleash his opinions on the English national club and the Premier League.

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[sibonisoduma]

Real Madrid's Camavinga is also injured but no know is making a big deal out of it because it's not Premier league.

[Sai_Saracen]

Imgane Dokovic stepping out in the middle of Wimbledon to play Davis Cup ... Internationals should be played after the club season is over... This way you can finish the season by early May or even late April and you can have 2 months of int football if you want

[MattsAttack]

Craig needed to be there to hear Ale's point

[johnhurd]

Competitive international is one thing but friendly international is another I thought the nation cup was to get rid of friendlies... pointless

[sevovevo]

What is the point here? It’s no news that stone was injured. He’s always injured btw

[jaybe]

Maybe part of the problem is the way friendly games are reffed, they let more tackles go unpunished by cards creating more chances of players getting injured.

[chinitopogi]

I do not believe these Manchester City players (Stones, Walker, Silva, Dias, Ake, Akanji) have injury during the friendly international games. After a few days, you will see them at 100 percent as if they really had an injury and was planned by Pep Guardiola..

[kylephaneufmusic]

Can we get a single pundit to tell it like it is? These players fake injuries to get out of international friendlies because it DOES NOT MATTER. They’d rather focus on their club trophies.

[OzyMandias]

4:26 Shaka's train of thought leaves the station.

[robertomorel]

Thank GOD someone said ENOUGH with England news we dont care So many good international games over the weekend and all you guys talk bout is England and their players enough !!!

[MrTkeddo]

Stones said to Declan Rice he didn’t know about the game against Arsenal on Sunday yet fakes an injury within 10 minutes like Kyle Walker did .

[Pepgang]

John Stones once killed two stones with one bird.

[alancawfield]

Who cares what club managers think, they don;t actually care about the players it's pure self interest. The players are of their country for their whole career, club teams come and go.If John Stones didn't feel right to play and didn't really want to play he would have declared himself unavailable, clearly he wanted to play so that should be end of it, players get injured all the time, players regularly miss international fixtures due to injuries picked up in club games, it is what it is.

[christophersinclair]

I think you all are missing the point its the fact that John Stones who hasn’t played much for City was starting 2 games in 4 days when he’s injury prone

Im upset Rice played the 90 mins in both games but atleast he’s not an injury prone player so you can accept that a bit

John Stones is different he is injury prone so you have to be extra cautious with him and the players Southgate mentioned Odegaard, Halaand, Van Dijk and Ake, these players aren’t injury prone so you can take a little more risk with them

[martinkerrmusic]

I think a manager actually takes pressure off himself by picking new players for friendly games like this. If he had picked konsa and branthwaite at center-back And Trafford in goal, it wouldn't have mattered much if we had lost the game because he could say I needed to have a look at these players and a friendly was the perfect time to do it. Everybody would have understood it was a experimental side and a non-competitive fixture.

[MarkChandler-fbfm]

I think friendlies are a waste of time.

[anshumansahu]

When John Stones was born in the hospital the doctors found him injured.

[KillerDarc]

No worries. Man City players always gets "injured" in the internationals during the homestretch. They'll make some kind of miraculous recovery soon.

[en]

Thank you Ale. It’s a global game. Only EPL fans think EPL is the center of the sport.

[simphiwemntambo]

Ale was starting to spit facts there at the end about England and the premier league, Dans producers told him to Interrupt😌 long live Queen Lizzy