[Shaun]

Rooney was one of the better players in the squad in France, though. And every time someone's argued for a player to be chosen 'on form, not fame' they've largely underperformed nationally - Drinkwater, Kane, Dier all being strong recent examples. I'd argue now that Roy's gone we could have a chance at performing internationally with someone with even a basic semblance of tactical awareness but I'm not sure Sam will be any better.

As for the league itself, it hasn't got the benefit of being able to have avoided tax for the past ten years like La Liga has which is why they've attracted the big names - but in return watching Spanish league games is largely boring. The lack of quality below 5th in their table is staggering. So whilst we're not the best teams in the world at the moment - although we made the Europa final, and CL semis last year - we're certainly the most entertaining and stacked league.