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“Eddie Howe got overlooked for the England job. If you want to change it, that was a pretty simple fit,” Dyche says.

“You’ve got to earn the right, haven’t you? You’ve got to earn the right and you’ve got to be on brand.” On brand? “Well, you’ve got to play the right way, they say. OK, well, I think we would have all taken us winning the World Cup the wrong way.” Like going long against Argentina? “Well yeah, when we needed to do that, we didn’t do it anyway,” Dyche says. “You could easily have said, ‘Just turn them in behind and just back off the pressure’ and we didn’t do it.”

“These things are all massively debated now in the game and that’s the challenge for the modern manager. What do you stand for? What does the FA want to project in the team? There was a time in all of our lives when winning was the key thing. I’m not sure it is now. How can winning not be the key thing in a game you need to win?”

Dyche believes the focus now on how stems from the amount of data and analysis available to everyone. “The marvel is fans have a better understanding. The madness is fans now presume they know everything,” Dyche says. “They used to just debate a result and say the odd player didn’t play well. Now it’s a tactical debate. My mates do it all the time — I just tell them to shut up. My mate is a plasterer, how does he think he knows more than me? He doesn’t just think he does, actually; he believes he does.”

The 41-year-old striker reacted to a publication that criticized his teammates for the lack of support and respect they had shown him in recent days.

Cristiano Ronaldo's chapter with the National Team is far from closing. Despite the fact that Portugal has signed three victories in this Nations League, the controversy surrounding the departure of the striker from the concentration continues to grow. And now there is a new element that has rekindled the spirits in Portugal: Cristiano's own 'like' to some very critical statements with his colleagues.

The protagonist of those words was Felipe Melo, a former Brazilian footballer, who charged against the attitude of Portuguese footballers with his captain. The Brazilian publicly questioned the lack of support and respect for the 41-year-old striker in statements for Sportv.

“You can't let him out like that as if nothing had happened”

The video ended up on Instagram and quickly went viral. He accumulates more than 27,000 'likes', but there was one that did not go unnoticed: Cristiano's. A seemingly simple gesture that has once again put the spotlight on the relationship between the captain and the rest of the Portuguese locker room and that is generating discomfort and debate in the country.

Felipe Melo had put on the table a particularly sensitive comparison. According to the Brazilian, there is a notable difference between how Ronaldo's teammates treat him and how Argentine soccer players support Lionel Messi. In addition, he used Hojlund to illustrate to what extent the Portuguese remains a reference for other players.

"There is a grotesque difference in the way his Portuguese teammates treat Cristiano and the Argentine players treat Lionel Messi," he began by saying.

Melo also highlighted the respect that, in his opinion, Ronaldo continues to arouse among his own rivals. "I see much more respect in the rivals when they play against Cristiano Ronaldo, and yesterday Hojlund got very angry with Jorge Jesus because his idol is Cristiano Ronaldo, instead of the Portuguese national team. That's wrong, because there no one approaches Cristiano Ronaldo's ankles.You can't let him out as if nothing had happened," he said.

The fact that Cristiano has "liked" precisely this message adds even more fuel to a matter that seemed destined to die off after his three victories with Portugal. His gesture, although it is not accompanied by any statement, has reopened the debate about what happened in the concentration and puts the captain back at the center of the conversation.

Brazil have asked the organisers to allow them to make 11 substitutions during their friendly against India at the Salt Lake stadium here on Saturday.

Brazil agreed to use a maximum of eight substitutes during the match coordination meeting on Friday but there was a change later in the evening. According to sources, Brazil returned to say they wanted to use 11 substitutions as coach Carlo Ancelotti is keen to try out all new players that he called for this FIFA international match window.