Capello Gone

[ChesterDave]

I dont think much will come of it, how can Psycho be racist? He is English. Only dem pesky foreigners are racialists

[MrMichael]

footballers should be keeping quiet on the matter.

Rio and Rooney have come out and said they want Capello.

What other situation, club or Country would a player ever do that. They need to keep quiet. What if the FA choose a foreign manager. Will what Rio said about not getting ideas across be ignored by the new guy? Doubt it.

What Self Important idiots footballers are.

Absolutely. Pretty ridiculous really. Also quite noticeable that, afaik, the only tweeting footballers of note to have mentioned Redknapp all play for ManU. Because the idea of derailing Spurs' season couldn't possibly have occurred to any of them.

http://www.football365.com/f365-says/7498907/F365-Focus

Good article that.

[PTP]

I heard Darren Gough....darren ****ing gough! last night on talksport, he was asked what the criteria should be for the new england manager....

first thing out of his mouth...

Media friendly

[Kenneth]

Can't help thinking we've gone backwards since 1994 in terms of how such issues are dealt with.

[Muddled]

I'm just posting this because it says 'False Nines'.

The Nagging Logic of Harry Redknapp

The next England manager:

"I write like a two-year-old and I can't spell."

"I couldn't even fill a team sheet in."

"I am the most disorganised person, I am ashamed to say, in the world."

For all their clamouring of ''Arry for England', the chaps in the tabs must be praying that he doesn't have to fill in an application form.

While I don't want Redknapp to be the next England manager, there's a nagging logic to it. That Henry James' defence in court was largely based on the grounds of stupidity is the same reason why he should be Sir Harry of Lionhearts, our knight in shining armour.

It shouldn't make any sense to have a manager who doesn't do tactics sending the England team out to face the other finely-tuned European heavyweights. But Redknapp's refusal - or inability - to over-complicate matters is his biggest asset.

Rafael van der Vaart said of the Tottenham manager's style last season, "There are no long and boring speeches about tactics...there is a clipboard in our dressing room but Harry doesn't write anything on it." We know why he doesn't write anything on it, and this simple, rudimentary approach is exactly what we need. If it can get Spurs into the quarter-finals of the Champions League, just think of how it could work with England.

Have England players ever before voiced their opinion of who the new manager should be? Roy Keane is right; Wayne Rooney has no place to be suggesting candidates, especially given his performances at World Cup 2010. But it says a lot that both he and Rio Ferdinand have immediately jumped on the Redknapp bandwagon.

When Ferdinand talks of how England "don't need anything else lost in translation" it's not Fabio Capello's struggles with English that mattered - it was that he doesn't speak 'brain-dead-English-footballer.' A peculiar language, its roots are based in self-implosion, chest-thumping and disastrous penalty kicks. In fact, there are very few words at all, and 'Arry is one of the most fluent tongues.

No diamond formations, no wing-backs and definitely no false nines - Redknapp's methods will come as a relief to the England players. Imagine the dressing room team-talk on June 11:

"So you just want us to tackle them when they have the ball, boss?"

"That's it, Wayne."

"And when we have it we should kick it in the goal?"

"You've got it lads. Let's show plenty of passion out there."

England 5-0 France.

It's going to work, isn't it? It might seem a demotion in sense to change Scott Parker's role from being a holding midfielder to 'the bloke in the middle who does the tackling', but if anyone can get through to this England team it's Redknapp. He might think inverting the pyramid is a position from the Kama Sutra (try not to picture it), but he knows how to tap into the players' complex minds.

The good news for the FA is that he'll cost a damn sight less than £6million a year as well. Redknapp hasn't looked at a wage slip in 10 years, didn't know he'd been given a £70,000 bonus from Tottenham and was unaware that The Sun hadn't paid him for his column for 18 months. It's a win-win situation. Redknapp is England's saviour until proven otherwise.

Link: Football365

[lfcred]

Media freindly manager would help though to be honest! the media are one of the main reasons for englands poor performances over the last few years, with the pressure they put on managers! Capello didn't fit well with the media because he couldn't even speak the language which instantly puts barriers up and has the media working against the england team rather than with them! Redknapp has a great relationship with the media, so hopfully the whole country would be pulling together for a change!

[Muddled]

Media freindly manager would help though to be honest! the media are one of the main reasons for englands poor performances over the last few years, with the pressure they put on managers! Capello didn't fit well with the media because he couldn't even speak the language which instantly puts barriers up and has the media working against the england team rather than with them! Redknapp has a great relationship with the media, so hopfully the whole country would be pulling together for a change!

I know what you're saying - and you're right to say it, but the media will only work with him up until the point were they have built us up and we fall down. Then, after exhausting all possibilities of blame, including the officials, the weather, our own players, the technology, the balls, the humidity etc etc they'll turn on him and say we need a winning manager regardless of nationality.

It's the English media way.

[Reece]

I wish the media would all **** off.

[Scotsdave]

I only have one comment to make regarding this situation.



Bwaaaaaaaahahahaahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha!

[Reece]

Remind us who your manager for the Euros is

[Chazza]

Dan Roan @danroan

BREAKING Redknapp on being favourite for the England job. "It is flattering. It's nice...I'd be lying if I said otherwise....

Dan Roan @danroan

Redknapp on if he's approached by FA: "I'd have to consider it obviously...but there's been no approach.." Appears to rule out job-share

Dan Roan @danroan

I asked Redknapp what he'd have done about Terry: "Difficult one..you're trying to lose me the job before I've even got it!" (much laughter)

[Norbs]

One thing an International coach doesnt have to worry about it a player threatening to leave or request a transfer. All the available players are there for the extent of their playing careers. With that in mind, the tactical acumen and ground work is everything and Rafa would be a master on this stage, IMO.

[Phoenix07]

One thing an International coach doesnt have to worry about it a player threatening to leave or request a transfer. All the available players are there for the extent of their playing careers. With that in mind, the tactical acumen and ground work is everything and Rafa would be a master on this stage, IMO.

The FA's reasons (not my own) why they won't hire Rafa Benitez :

1. He's Spanish.
2. He's not media friendly
3. He plays boring football
4. He hates Sir Alex Ferguson
5. He managed Liverpool
6. He destroyed Mourinho's good work at Inter.
7. He isn't a yes man.

[cream]

I love England, always good for a laugh. I'd hate for anybody I liked to get the job.

[Vermilion]

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Dalglish: "Whether they want someone of their own nationality or the best, it's up to them." #bbcfootball