Gareth Southgate knighted

hilts said:
I was nodding till the last sentence.
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On past performance, of course. I do think man management and managing the press are just as important for a modern England manager, we'll see.

I think Southgate is a better manager than some give him credit for, the tweaks during the course of this tournament have been decent enough and not always as obvious as some made out.

But football is a cruel sport and he couldn't get the job done with a young and talented squad. Let's see what the next man does, he'll have my full support.
 
GoatersLeftShin said:
If Klopp is available and fancied the job after a rest, the FA would be mad to turn him down.

Pep is simply the greatest manager this country has ever seen. No one comes close to him in my book. However if Pep wasn't around then it's almost certain Klopp would be right up there with the silverware.

His teams are decent enough to watch and he does get the best out of players. I agree with the others who say his tactics are probably easier than Peps, although there is the issue of whether they'd work after a long season.

Klopp has been there and done it and I'm certain he'd get us close to titles.

If not then Potter or Howe would be fine with me.
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A few puffs on the inhalers and we would be fine. He wouldn't be scared to rotate to keep energy levels up either. We didn't press because we played the same 11 or 12 players all tournament and one of them was fucked from day 1.

If Watkins, Gordon and Bowen or whoever had played a group game or come on every game after 60mins we would have been able to keep the intensity.
 
super_city_si said:
Him or Potter would be fine. Howe better for his experience and I think he's have more respect with the players but I did like Potters playing style
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Potter is an overrated manager. You wouldn't like his style. We might keep the ball but we would do not with it. His Brighton team couldn't score for shit.
 
I dunno why people keep mentioning Pep for England, he isnt going to take a pay cut to take the worst job going in football.
The FA are not going to pay 20 million + in wages anyway .
 
RayCTID said:
England shouldn't appoint him due to the fact he is mentally shot and he would not want the job either.
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Seeing him crack up would be brilliant though....

He doesn't like getting asked difficult questions, after the honeymoon period he'd be awful with the media and everyone would see him for what he is. Or he could do well. Win-win.

So yeah, give him the job. :)
 
levets said:
The Phil Neville was 2 yrs later in the Euros.
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Ha. :-D

I'm an expert on 1982, the first World Cup I watched and it's seared into my brain. I could tell you almost everything about it.

1998 and watching the World Cup involved drinking in pubs. I'm slightly less accurate about tournaments from that point on.....
 
Brightwell Bros. said:
On past performance, of course. I do think man management and managing the press are just as important for a modern England manager, we'll see.

I think Southgate is a better manager than some give him credit for, the tweaks during the course of this tournament have been decent enough and not always as obvious as some made out.

But football is a cruel sport and he couldn't get the job done with a young and talented squad. Let's see what the next man does, he'll have my full support.
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He had the best squad of players and couldn't compete in the final. Let's not kid ourselves that we went close. As soon as we scored Spain came again and got a goal at will. As gaz reset his 1-10-0 formation.
 
supercity88 said:
Potter is an overrated manager. You wouldn't like his style. We might keep the ball but we would do not with it. His Brighton team couldn't score for shit.
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Fair point on Potter, I always assumed Brighton were free scoring under him, but having checked they were more so under DeZerbi with the same style of play.
 
SkyBlueFlux said:
I would love Bobby Manc to do it but I think he’s probably currently getting paid in swimming pools full of gold bullion.
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My choice. He knows how to get a tune out of a squad of players and he can make the big decisions in the key moments (Euro 20 final). He won’t stay long (be lucky to get 2 tournaments out of him) but he will break our trophy drought. He did so for city and we will never forget that.
 
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mattcity5 said:
Ha. :-D

I'm an expert on 1982, the first World Cup I watched and it's seared into my brain. I could tell you almost everything about it.

1998 and watching the World Cup involved drinking in pubs. I'm slightly less accurate about tournaments from that point on.....
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I was at the 1982 WC; And 1990 and 1998. Plus the Euros in 2000
 
Well I never liked his style of play and thought he could have done more but nevertheless he did make England believe again and got them to two finals in a row which is a great achievement in its own right and choose an honourable way to exit, good luck to him
 
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