Didnt Jody Morris get alot of the 'credit' for the way Derby and Chelsea played while Lampard was there?
The Challinor conversation is pointless anyway, he's already been ruled out by the club. I only mentioned him as someone I'd prefer to Lampard, that doesn't mean i'd be buzzing with Challinor just less disappointed than I would be with Lampard. We can do so much better than Lampard. It's a boring, ambitionless appointment.
More I read about Cifuentes more I think he would be a very good fit. He has an ethos of attacking football but is quite pragmatic with his style seems very adaptable. Also he has a record of turning clubs around and pulling things together. Hes a proper manager seems to work well under pressure. But like you say maybe I'm falling into the old trap of hope and optimism.
Hahaha I’m right in there with you mate, hoping it’s true and wrapped up soon, if the willock rumour is true too then there’s another plus with them having worked together at qpr
Howe has already ruled himself out of the running - although that was likely just to curry favour with the jordee naschun. This article just feels loaded to make the mags think they are bigger than England by pretending the FA want Howe so Wilson and all the other mags can pull themselves dry when he apparently turns down the approach that never happened.
please log in to view this image I would like Cifuentes just because of this tweet, his meltdown would be sensational
I’m not saying that this would be the case with Cifuentes but football is littered with examples of clubs stumbling across coaching and player appointments way down their preference lists and it working out superbly for them (often likely better than their first choice would have). We’re clearly not as smart as I was hoping we were, let’s hope - whoever we end up getting - that we’re lucky.
I don’t know a great deal about Cifuentes but that QPR squad he had was full of championship experience. Begovic 36. Cook 33. Colback 34. Adomah 36, to name a few. Their starting XI against Leeds when they won 4-0 didn’t have a single player under the age of 26. Experience isn’t everything but he’d be inheriting a totally different squad here…
Not so sure. International management isn't the pinnacle anymore - look at the managers England have had over the last couple of decades - unemployable elsewhere, end of their careers or foreigners. Who was the last genuinely top coach to manage England? Venables? Hoddle?
In fairness my choice wouldn't be Lampard or Challinor but think Lampard is the better one of the two. Think we both agree that we hope it's not between them two at least
I think it's still one of the top jobs (England), certainly bigger then Newcastle who despite their megabucks are stuck with FFP and a fanbase they will demand more and more in the coming years. Living in the Peak District and training with the best in the country once every two months sounds like a good gig. Horses for course and all that but I think he'd be off personally, he'd be daft not to.
Good thing about Cifuentes, going off here at any rate, is that he's probably the least divisive name mentioned so far. We all seem to agree he'd be good choice.
