Why are English managers so garbage?

just a hangover of the 90s and 00s, English footballers were not 'intelligent' then, lots of passion and raw talent and so on, but the brain side never really got going, or particularly taught.

in the same way that English footballing talent is about to come to the fore for the rest of the 2020s, English managers will be coming from the players retiring in the last few years and next, 2030s for English managers i reckon.
 
Which current English players might make sophisticated managers?
Er…Bellingham? Rice?
 
Exactly how it was in the 90s at school for me.

I remember playing for the school team and got a bollocking playing at centre half for passing across my box to my other centre half who was in space. I was told in no uncertain terms I was to launch into the channels for the wingers.

This then becomes ingrained in you that your role was to just get stuck in and stop the forwards and clear it. Not bring it out or move into space. So when you don’t have the ball you become static rather than constantly moving and creating passing angles for team mates.

Then they wonder why until now English players especially those further back were awful at passing, technique etc because you literally might have only had a few actual touches of the ball all game.
Lol...what you have posted is so true, I remember the same happening to myself at one point. Being told under no circumstances do you ever play the ball across the area to your team mate even if they were free
 
This^^ Even Steve McLaren looked good at FC Twente

He did a decent job at Boro to be fair. Won them the coca cola Cup, UEFA Cup Final and qualified for Europe a few times via the league

They went downhill when he left after the UEFA cup final ended up with Southgate who got them relegated and they're never really recovered.

His England tenure was a joke but I think the players of that generation were overhyped and barely wanted to play for England when they talk about it now.

But all in all I don't think Dutch Schteve was bad manager for a moment in time. He was never going to be an elite manager though
 
Which current English players might make sophisticated managers?
Er…Bellingham? Rice?
I'm not sure either would, I'd already realised that Bellingham was a bellend and the more I see of Rice the more I see he's a dick-head.
 
Lol...what you have posted is so true, I remember the same happening to myself at one point. Being told under no circumstances do you ever play the ball across the area to your team mate even if they were free
You got into the school team and instantly played a game that was completely alien to anything you'd played before.
 
Which current English players might make sophisticated managers?
Er…Bellingham? Rice?

tough one as we have such a young squad, so they need experience etc

Trippier
Konsa
Henderson
Rice
Kane

all got some leadership skills.
 
To be fair I’d say a lot of English managers aren’t given a proper chance at all, especially at the big clubs. When they do get a chance as soon as they lose a few games they get sacked.
 

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