Gareth Southgate

[Crooked_rain]

There is a reason City fans made up a song about Mourinho parking the bus because his football is ultra defensive.

His Real Madrid team was a higher scoring team than Pep's Barcelona. They hold the record for most goals scored in La Liga in a season.

 

[SamBlue]

Why is nobody mentioning Gerrard? Potential slipping won't have catastrophic consequences and he actually won something. I am just saying.

 

[mexico1970]

Not really sure why anyone thinks it would be Howe.

He’s just won an internal power struggle at Newcastle, he’s getting paid 10x more there than he’d get from England and Newcastle are happy with the job he’s doing.

Isn't he paid 4 million a year? The England job is 5 million a year and guaranteed not to get the boot even if you don't win anything?

 

[Crooked_rain]

He’s been better than Sven, McLaren, Capello and Hodgson in my lifetime of watching England. It’s up to the FA to try and push this forward now, as maybe they should have a few years ago.

He didn't get anywhere near the tough games that Sven and Capello got in tournaments, if he did, England would likely never had made it to the two finals.

 

[BringBackSwales]

But it's dependant on the team you're managing and the players you have available. He's shown in the past when you have good attacking players, his teams can play decent football and score plenty of goals. Managing Roma with Tammy Abraham with leading the line isn't going to be the best incentive for a manager to go out and play attacking football, then you do have to be sensible.

Southgates issue is he's "pragmatic" all the time. Mourino knew when to be pragmatic and also knew when to play football when he had the players, hence why he's one of the most successful managers there's been. You don't win what he has if your teams don't put the ball in the net and overcome top teams.

Like you said, in the past. He was a great manager at Chelsea (the first time) and Inter. Since then time and bitterness have caught up with him. Everything you say about Mourinho that’s positive is way back in the past

 

[Grassland Blue]

Yes he's gone he's gone he's finally gone Yesssss I'm so happy literally dancing around work. Never have to hear his fucking drab monotone voice or look at his ugly nose or watch his shit football ever again. Yes Yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes

Come on - tell us what you really think......

 

[lust overlord]

In 1990 we were dire at the groups. 1 win and 2 draws (Couldnt beat the mighty Ireland and only just scraped a 1-0 against Egypt). Then it took a last minute goal by Platt to save our blushes against Belgium. Then we were nearly knocked out by... Cameroon. Germany was goooood, but again when we faced a top team we were out.

1996, started dire, 0-0 against the swiss, nearly beaten by scotland if they had scored their pen. Then just about beat Spain on pens. We had a very good game against a weak Dutch team. Then when we faced a very good team we went out.

We remember the final, usually tragic, games. Not the slow build up, the dire football. But now we will remember finals and being there.

All those sides we were defeated by in semis and k.o games were comparably stronger than what we've faced in the last two finals.
Argentina
Brazil
Germany
Portugal with prime fake Ronaldo.

 

[hilts]

Hounded out by the cruel world of social media, when will we learn?

 

[domalino]

His Real Madrid team was a higher scoring team than Pep's Barcelona. They hold the record for most goals scored in La Liga in a season.

One season 14 years ago doesn’t make you an attacking manager FFS.

 

[Falcao]

I don't think he would take the England job either

Maybe he’s jaded with club football.

Potter even money favourite for the job.

Would rather it was Potter than Howe.

Agree here. Keeping possession is key and Potter would at least try to address that. Though whether it works is another story, you can bet the media would turn on him very quickly and show no patience.