Non Englishman here.
Why does the England manager need to be English? Wouldn’t they be best to find the best candidate regardless of where they’re from?
Looks like I upset a few with my question, sorry :(
Always thought by managing big egos of those great AC Milan and Real Madrid teams that Carlo Ancelotti would have been a great shout for the England job and also the fact having worked in the EPL before he had at least some kind of grasp of the culture etc
Me neither
2 years time : “Gareth and Eddie sitting in Saudi, earning countless money”
Potter or Carsley for me but would be happy with Cooper. Don’t want anyone else.
I don’t believe him
He’s waiting for the Everton job.
Pep will be the manager in time for the 2026 World Cup, there’s no way England lets him slip away.
I’m interested
What about his assistant?
I think it’s easy to say no until the question is asked.
It has to be the pinnacle for an English manager to manage the National Team.
I don’t know of it was mentioned further down but you’ve got to bear in mind managing a national team gives you less time to work with the squad and you can only choose from the selection you have available. It’s such a stark difference from club footy where you’re with the squad every day and you can make transfers to fill gaps or bolster positions.
Even if England has an amazing squad right now, Howe might not think it’s worth swapping out from a Newcastle team that he’s designed from the ground up and has managed to bring into the UCL.
Also, while jokes are constantly made about Southgate and the mates XI, he still managed to get England to 2 WC semis and 1 Euro final.
Factor in how shitty the journos and boomers are in this country as we all know and it’s almost expected that if another manager was to take up the managerial position and then fail in their first comp, this incredibly critical nation of ours would be calling for a resignation almost instantly.
Eddie’s made the right choice in my opinion. Managing at the international level isn’t always the dream job.
England will end up hiring Graham Potter
Wouldn’t be the worst choice, a bit like Southgate with tactics
Potter failed to implement his tactics and philosophy at Chelsea despite working with the players every single day. What makes people think he would have the time to implement his tactics when he only gets to see his players for a week or 2 every couple of months? Teams that do well at national team level tend to go with basic football. Spain could play their intricate football because the majority of their team played together at club level too.
Pochettino and Lampard’s stints show that Potter was not the problem at Chelsea.
People seem to be forgetting how well he had Brighton playing prior to joining Chelsea, which is a tough assignment for any manager.
Took a while though the guy had 1 home win in 2020
COVID season though
Still an awful record but yeah
I think lee carsley is the obvious successor.
Might stick a few quid on this, not sure why the FA insist England must have an English manager but hey-ho.
I froget but was Capello good with England?
He was until the 2010 tournament where he decided to ditch the tactics that brought us to the tournament and play a brexit 4-4-2 with Emile motherfucking Heskey up top. I’m still fuming about that 13 years later.
For no particular reason, I kinda prefer the manager of England to be English, though.
I couldn’t care less personally, foreign managers of national teams have been a thing since the beginning and why handicap yourself when others won’t do the same?
However when England tried it they actually managed to handicap themselves with the couldn’t give a fuck at the time Fabio Capello. Remember the Capello Index?
but that speaks more to decision makers in the FA being a bunch of incompetents than it is an indictment on the foreign manager.
Ah. Down against Germany in a World Cup and deciding to being on Heskey
Because Heskey was class, yeah.
In 2010?
and why handicap yourself when others won’t do the same?
Most do thought don’t they? The only nations that often hire foreign managers are the African nations no? Is there any major national team that had a foreign manager recently?
Last two I remember off the top of my head that weren’t for England are Martinez at Belgium and Phil Scolari at Portugal.
Oh ja! I don’t know why I forgot Martinez with Belgium/Portugal. Scolari was ages ago lol, may as well mention Capello at England too. Carlo may be the next one with Brazil.
And now Tedesco for Belgium and Martinez for Portugal.
The world cup has never been won by a manager managing a country different to his own nationality
Greece didn’t win a World Cup but I’d still say it was a good deal to bring in a foreign manager
Correlation not causation, the World Cup has only been won by countries with a rich history of football that means they’re capable of producing great managerial talent too.
That’s obviously not to say England is incapable of producing world class managers, but for various reasons English managers’ career progression is more limited in England.
No foreign manager has ever won the Euros or World Cup
Maybe that’s because top teams rarely appoint foreign managers? Foreign managers can’t win the Euros or the World Cup with France or Germany or whatever if they don’t even get appointed to begin with
I think it’s the fault of Capello really, who was so foreign, quite cold, terse, with not a great command of the language, and hugely underperformed with squad cohesion (ie, the soft side of the job) being a failure of the team. Not that I’m putting all the blame on Capello… the media and the players all have to take some share of that. Also, his style was of his time.
I think if we had a warm and cuddly foreign manager with great English, like Klopp was when he first started at Liverpool (he’s a bit more jaded now), then the FA would consider it. Even if you’re a Southgate doubter, you can’t deny that he’s made such huge progress on squad cohesion.
Just to add to this, there’s no way the FA haven’t taken notice of Wiegman being such a success. As long as they speak decent English and will throw themselves into the job, I think they’d be open to a non-English person.
Believe no team with a foreign manager has ever won the World Cup
Everyone in England should pool together a fiver each and offer Pep £50m/year to manage. (ill chip in 10 so he leaves the league).
Yes, because to be England manager you need to be soulless. Or so it seems.
Too bad, he would be a great choice.