He should’ve gone after that 0-4 defeat to Hungary.
I do think he did a good job of steadying the ship and reinventing the mood around the national side (and it was seriously needed after a long abysmal run of managers) but if he couldn’t get us over the line at home against a less than great...
It’s clearly an issue for debate but I’m almost certain a majority of people (including me) would prefer Graham Potter or Eddie Howe to Southgate as a starting point.
I think we’ve done ok on the whole. Not exactly unlucky to be behind but we could easily be ahead. Johnson being weak and Bissouma being sloppy though.
Hasn’t he said previously that he doesn’t actually like football and does it purely for the money/career? Makes sense that he wouldn’t be overly bothered about England if so.
I could see him being tempted by such a prestigious job that would offer him the chance to notch up another league title. Bayern would be absolute mugs to hire him though. He’d almost certainly win them the league, but equally certain would be the implosion and the departure within a couple of...
It felt like a position of relative strength at the time. We’d reached the CL final and finished top 4 in the season before. The prevailing view was that CM needed a rebuild but the rest of the team was very good.
The trouble with looking at the market for £80m-£100m players is that if the likes of Madrid and City aren’t interested there’s usually a reason. If they are interested then good luck signing them. We all wondered five years ago why we were allowed a free run at Ndombele…
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