In a situation where England are chasing a goal, being able to bring on a PL & CL winning right-back who was creative enough to get 15 assists in a PL season (and 13 in the season before that) is a pretty valuable option. I'd absolutely take that on my bench over some solid but much less talented option.
The shocking decline of Trent Alexander Arnold
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In the latest episode of the United Hour Podcast, Nik and Imran hold a long overdue conversation about United's awful league form with 1 win in 7. They discuss a disappointing draw at Bournemouth, a not so disappointing draw against Liverpool and a crushing defeat at Chelsea - Is time nearly over for Erik Ten Hag?
Then in a special second half of the pod, Nik welcomes Natalie ( https://twitter.com/natalie_17) to discuss the fortunes of Manchester United Women as they booked a place in the FA Cup Final after a historic first ever win vs. Chelsea.
Crazy. Walker is by far England's best option at right back in my opinion.
Forget defending how can you leave a player with delivery as good as that out? He can literally win you matches from just 1 or 2 plays. If you need a goal it's beyond stupid to not being him.
Despite what I've posted in this thread if it was me selecting the England squad I'd take Walker, TAA and AWB.
For me he's 3rd choice at best
If he's not in the squad it screams Southgate sees him as a potential disturbance unless he is first choice. A "bad tourist" as they say.
Second this. I think Southgate has left him out for non playing related reasons. Can't see any other reason why he wouldn't take him at least as an option.
I still think Southgate should have given him a go in midfield since we don't really have many options.
It seems like such an easy solution. You've got a great attacking right back and a great defensive right back. Take both.
If its we need a goal and need to bring someone on reasoning then its definitely Trent v an attacker.
I’ll laugh if England are chasing a goal with a sub left and they take off Walker for super assister Arnold instead of an attacker.
woah nelly
All of their back 4 have regressed even Fabinho can be thrown in there. At least Trent may be coached back into something. I certainly think Ten Hag could do it
I blame Jermaine Jenas.
Best right back of all time TM
Konate should help him out for the second goal where Trent is covering two players.
Better than Beckham they said.
If you look closely Konate points Trent towards his man in the far post to help in the middle Trent then just doesn't show up.
True - but if you are covering 2 players - wouldn't it make sense to take the guy closest to goal ?
What an assist!
Did his haters see that??
Did his haters see that??
Yeah, but that was the wrong call from Konate as they had enough bodies to deal with the Brentford attack. He should have pulled players in from the other side of the defence.
Away with your nuance.
Lads, sensitive lads... it's just a bit of fun. 
The ‘Trent can’t defend’ thread is locked (why?) so I came here to post that this guy is woeful. Give him another 3-4 years and his career will go the way of Delle Alli.
He's not an elite level RB, simple as that
And again.
He’s not a full back simple as.
He needs competition for his position.
It’s the closest to a position he has on the pitch. I can’t imagine the players he would let run off him in midfield
The poor positioning is one thing, but the total lack of effort or interest is unforgivable. Not even attempting to track Grealish once he had played it to KdB for the fourth goal is absolutely criminal.
That’s a constant with him I think.
Right wing or wing back. At least when he lacks the effort, awareness and positional sense it won’t directly lead to a goal threat like it usually does.
He needs to be Kimmich'd and put into central midfield, been saying this for over an year now.
Why Klopp tolerates it is beyond me. Even leaving aside the fact that it leads to oppo goals directly, it must be terrible for team morale to have a RB with such an attitude problem.
Kimmich was never a liability like this
Then what is he? Unless he’s a forward he’s expected to play some part in defending for the team. He’s just not very good
Kimmich was good though and showed that he could play there. They didn’t stick him there because he was shite as a RB
He's awful.
Zero effort defensively and absolutely no composure on the ball, just punting it forward everytime he gets near it. Terrible.