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So who do people want to be the next manager?
For me it would be Klopp hands down, although I don't know if he wil go for it
I think Eddie Howe will stay at Newcastle, Potter might well be up for it though not sure he could handle it
As for Pep, he'd be good but I don't think there's much chance of it
I think the barrier to Eddie Howe is less Howe himself and more the compensation that would have to be paid to Newcastle
Klopp i think is an impossibility because I don’t think he’d ever be able to go back to Germany, it’s not Berti Vogts and Scotland it’s a completely different thing entirely
Guardiola? Well if he’s not the best paid manager in the game he’s in the top two or three. So the price would be offputting even if he was planning to leave club football for England
One suspects that the reason the FA favoured Southgate was because they are simpatico. Both risk adverse, safety first….which means Lee Carsley on the basis that he won the u21 European championship (I think?) and he’s familiar with the set up. I understand he’s more attack minded than Southgate but ultimately, the big draw back is not having the experience of handling big name players.
Graham Potter? More used to working in paint by number set ups where he is the head coach and all the setup is there for him like with Brighton.
I went Howe. I'm not wed to the idea of an English manager, but I would prefer it.
And Klopp has said he's taking a break from football so isn't an option right now.
Would love Klopp but it just isn’t going to happen.
Eddie Howe is the best English coach so you’d think he’s a front runner. The risk he needs to think about though is if it were to go pear shaped. Once upon a time Steve McLaren was highly regarded but his reputation was destroyed beyond all repair after England.
I think we will certainly be expected to win the Euros on home soil in 4 years and a strong World Cup showing will also be considered a bare minimum for 2026. So for whoever comes in I don’t think there’s any room for error or processes here, they need to win or they’ll
be seen as a failure, so that’s huge pressure.
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I noticed that the most full throated defence of Southgate came from the smug middle class liberal set. The real harm of Brexit is the harm it’s done to these peoples psyches. They have become so disillusioned that the rose tinted view they had of Britain within the confines of their croissant and cappuccino filled bubble has been disabused, that they have a narcotic need to cling on to these utterly vapid notions of inclusivity as if they have any meaning.
The England football team isn’t exactly multi racial anyway, you’re either black or white and ultimately it doesn’t matter because the first order importance is that you’re English. This is the same vapid “Be Kind” wooliness that people use when perverts wear skirts and go into the ladies with their John Thomas hanging out underneath the skirt like it’s a light cord.
Plus none of it’s actually relevant to the job.
Plus it’s acting as if somehow the last England manager had the black players in chains as galley slaves in a giant rowing vessel ferrying them between tournaments whilst an omnious drum is being banged.
Empty and platitudinous
Where is the choice for Woy ? :)
Allardyce has no chance.
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According to Skysports the FA are considering Ange Postecoglou on the shortlist for the England job.
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Have they not got the message about Spuds and serial failure yet?
Seriously the fat aussie is just as bad as Southgate in that he only has one way of playing and is far too naive to win a major international tournament