and kind of on this topic, I think there's some credibility to getting a manager who can essentially adopt the tactics that successful teams in that country are using. it's very logical if you think about it. If you look at the Spain team that won the World Cup, their play wasn't that far removed from Barcelona and obviously they had Barcelona players in there. The Germany team that won the World Cup in Brazil pretty much played a typical Bundesliga style of football. Italy won the last Euros and they looked pretty much the same as a top Serie A team does in how they play.
Surely te logical thing is that you get players from teams like City and Arsenal and get them to approach the game in a similar way to what they do every week. obviously it's not so simple because its Southgate, not Pep or Lego Head, but it's just a tournament for a few weeks, I'm sure you can at least imitate a similar approach to football. it's not rocket science. instead we get players used to playing a certain way every week, having massive success doing it and bring them in to play a very rigid kind of football but they're not used to. what do you expect the outcome to be?
I believe any manager that's won these trophies doesn't just pick players, they also take influence from successful teams in their country because that's what they're used to.
Us and Arsenal are the two best sides in England, 5 of our 10 outfield players play for those two clubs, yet England's coaching staff clearly don't realise its probably worth trying to get something similar going.