Next England Manager

[magicalbarnes]

If it was your decision who would you all realistically select as the next England manager? Who do you think they will give it to? If you could hypothetically speaking employ anyone you wanted, who would you give the job to?

I think the FA will probably opt for Mouriniho, which I suppose isn’t the worst choice in the world. Decent manager, plus he has knowledge of the English name. But will he take it?

I know this will annoy quite a few on here, but if I could hand pick a manager the ideal candidate has to be Fergie. He knows the English league, English players and habits inside out. He may not be as tactically astute as some of the other managers but as a total package I can’t see anyone better.

Obviously Fergie wouldn’t take the England job but I was just interested in everyone’s opinions

[Shaggy]

It would take me about 2 seconds to appoint Mourinho.

Unfortunately I think he'd be too much of a challenge for the FA, who will look for their usual Lancaster Gate yes man who wears dull suits.

[Dalglish]

Steve McLaren

[spud_gun]

Steve McLaren

[Reece]

I was talking about this last night.

If you were a top manager, why would you take the England job right now? Other than a friendly or two there are no competitive games to play until the WC qualifiers begin next September. And basically there is no actual cup to play for until 2010. It just does not seem at all appealing to me. I can't see someone like Mourinho taking a job which would involve doing next to nothing until next September.

If I were the FA, I'd look at appointing a young English manager - someone like Stuart Pearce - and see how they do over those couple of friendlies and maybe the first couple of qualifiers. If it's not looking good, then look at appointing someone with more experience and stature.

You know they will appoint Allardyce though

[Reece]

Oh and Davie, GET TAE ****

[AFII]

Capello, he is a winner and win leagues and cups.

[Guest]

I was talking about this last night.

If you were a top manager, why would you take the England job right now? Other than a friendly or two there are no competitive games to play until the WC qualifiers begin next September. And basically there is no actual cup to play for until 2010. It just does not seem at all appealing to me. I can't see someone like Mourinho taking a job which would involve doing next to nothing until next September.

If I were the FA, I'd look at appointing a young English manager - someone like Stuart Pearce - and see how they do over those couple of friendlies and maybe the first couple of qualifiers. If it's not looking good, then look at appointing someone with more experience and stature.

You know they will appoint Allardyce though

The problem is with the complete structure, it's not a question of manager. Apart from one or two world class players, England are a team full of good but not great players. A complete revamp of the whole system will benefit in the long term. What's been done now, is not good enough.

Why have all previous managers failed ? The FA had all the choice to nit pick amongst the best but still, no one could do the job.

And if I start with the press .... what a load of cock they are, analyzing everything and putting unneeded pressure on everyone.

There's something fundamentally wrong, which isn't simply down to a coach.

[Reece]

Capello, he is a winner and win leagues and cups.

I certainly wouldn't mind that, but as I said, would he really take it at this moment in time?

And will the FA actually have the balls to get a foreign manager in?

[AFII]

I certainly wouldn't mind that, but as I said, would he really take it at this moment in time?

And will the FA actually have the balls to get a foreign manager in?

He has said that he would take it if they offered him the job according to Italian TV.

[FT9]

Mourinho would be too difficult for the FA to handle - loose cannon. Capello would be the safe bet IMO

[Reece]

Anyone else think that Capello looks like Harry Hill with hair?

[FT9]

[dww]

I was talking about this last night.

If you were a top manager, why would you take the England job right now? Other than a friendly or two there are no competitive games to play until the WC qualifiers begin next September. And basically there is no actual cup to play for until 2010. It just does not seem at all appealing to me. I can't see someone like Mourinho taking a job which would involve doing next to nothing until next September.

If I were the FA, I'd look at appointing a young English manager - someone like Stuart Pearce - and see how they do over those couple of friendlies and maybe the first couple of qualifiers. If it's not looking good, then look at appointing someone with more experience and stature.

You know they will appoint Allardyce though

If I was an international coach I think now would be a good time to get England. You have a period of time where you can change the ideas of the players and implement a new system with much less pressure than the usual qualifying games/tournaments. Added to the fact that people will have a lot of good will simply because you aren't McClaren.

I actually think that if they ever think they might appoint Alladyce now is the time. His methods and tactics seem to need time for players to adapt to them and if he goes down the route Venables did of not playing so many friendlies but having get togethers then he might stand a chance of doing okay. I used to be a supporter of Big Sam for England but his time at Newcastle seems to show that he needs too much time and support to make a successful sid ethat he will not get with England.

[dww]

The problem is with the complete structure, it's not a question of manager. Apart from one or two world class players, England are a team full of good but not great players. A complete revamp of the whole system will benefit in the long term. What's been done now, is not good enough.

Why have all previous managers failed ? The FA had all the choice to nit pick amongst the best but still, no one could do the job.

And if I start with the press .... what a load of cock they are, analyzing everything and putting unneeded pressure on everyone.

There's something fundamentally wrong, which isn't simply down to a coach.

There is definitely some truth to that argument but we had a better squad than any of the teams in our group this time and there aren't that many teams with better squds to be honest. However I am with you an Tomasjj in that the players believe their own hype and are not technically or tactically good enough to be able to get away with their arrogance.

The players need to be able to handle the pressure it wil always be there. However the manager can help by creating a system that we can go back to when our backs are against the wall and having a consistant pattern of play. Sven in some ways managed this but he failed to stop our midfield dropping back on top of our defence and tinkered too much with the midfield in general.

I think a big part of the problem is the personalities of the last few coaches - someone like Mourinho who puts the team/group/squad above individuals and takes some of the media spotlight away with his presence would be ideal.