Good job nobody did Nobody is defending Roy Hodgson nor his tactics. But bringing in a coach like Guardiola wouldn't improve performances to Barca/Bayern like levels (what's needed to be World Champions). It's like you think that he just turns up and the players start knocking the ball about for fun. He's one of the greatest managers ever on the training ground and that's why he's been so successful. You can't have that sort of impact where the team is playing fast, counter attacking football week-in-week-out. It just won't work for us. and that's before thinking about the 10m a year rumour. Would be a complete **** up.
Yeah, we should just get another **** manager instead and give up, great thinking. We should bring in the best manager available, to get the best out of our players
No I don't think like that. It will clearly take time. But he, at this moment, is still a much better person to have in charge of England over Woy. That is my point.
To be honest, on the England front, I'm surprised Klopp has not been mentioned. I would have him over Pep.
England is a totally different beast to Bayern & Barca - two more or less finished articles when he walked in. I don't know how to make England a side potentially capable of winning a tournament, but just chucking a massive womp on a glamour name from foreign leagues is unlikely to work IMO.
Yes but it'd be papering over the cracks with millions of bank notes when there are plenty of managers who would probably do a better job than Hodgson and Guardiola. As you say, Klopp is a far better option but I doubt he'd take it.
Would he be interested in managing the average Bunch of England players we have ? Could we play how he likes to set his teams up? Doubt it
England players don't have the technical ability to play that style of game. Plus, as other people have said, why would Guardiola risk his career by moving from teams like Bayern & Barca, where the players are technically brilliant with good work rate, who know how to win in big matches, to work with lower midtable premier league players who get bigged up all the time & think they're better than they are?
I have to agree. Plus I am not sure he would want to coach a team he only has together now and again.
England have been preetty **** at football in all the time I've been knocking around (1971 ) and I can probably remember football from'77 ish . We have had one true gift in that time , Gazza and between himself , the media and the fans we ****ed that up big style
I actually think Roy Hodgson is doing a good job. Sure, he is not a footballing genius, but gone are the days that we would consider any of the England team to be great players. Good, yes, great no. He is a good manager doing a good job with good players. We have qualified easily - I know the standard of opposition has been mostly mediocre or worse, but you still have to beat them.
Some times the sum of a team is greater than its parts. Look at Greece winning Euro 2004, I'd even settle for that. We've been **** for years despite having some decent players at our disposal.
Why are you bothered about how much they pay the managers, it's not your money? Pay peanuts get monkeys
I like Klopp too, he's very positive, would be a breath of fresh air from the womble Hodgson who can't even apply positive tactics in meaningless games
Just a point on this, does anyone recall the amount of absolute dog's abuse John Toshack got for his reign as Wales boss? Results were really poor and he got ****loads of stick for ditching established players for young, raw talent,. Robbie Savage was particularly vocal about his perceived treatment. Well now almost everyone to a man, including the players and Chris Coleman, are stating that Wales now performing to, well the best level in their history, is down to the work done by Toshack in blooding the young talent and putting a group together not for the short term results but to play side by side for years to come. Just goes to show that not everything is as black and white as it seems at the time.
