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SpurSince57

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Joey, I think you're wrong and here's why. Yes Cappello had great players at the teams he won championships with, but its still not easy to win championships. There isn't just one team in each league with sides good enough to win championships. Certainly Barcelona had just as talented a squad as Real Madrid, but Real Madrid won last year. Secondly, Cappello doesn't actually have to win anything to be successful. England aren't World Cup winning material. He simply needs to help them improve and give the English side a certain amount of respect in the world again. That may not be good enough for a lot of English fans and the English media who seem to expect trophies that England are not even close to deserving, but it is what is realistic. I think he can get them to the Semis of the World Cup or so and that is an accomplishment. And I also think its unfair to say English players are unsuited for his style. He must be given a chance to implement his style and try it, before assuming it can't work.

It may be what is realistic, but by and large realism is a stranger to the English media and supporters. Also, Real won the La Liga title almost by default last season; it was less a matter of Capello's nous than RvN's goalscoring heroics, aided towards the end of the season by a reinstated Beckham, Barca fucking up, Valencia struggling with injuries and Sevilla being not quite good enough. Losing to the likes of Recreativo and (FFS!) Levante is not, perhaps, what you expect of Real. They were truly godawful at times last season.

But to be honest I really couldn't care less. I'm just glad we got Ramos.
 

tony0379

The bald midget has to go!
May 17, 2004
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:rofl:

I love that story about him involving Di Canio at Milan. Milan are winning in a friendly, Cappello takes him off at half time and Di canio asks why. Cappello says, "because you're a **** and your head looks like a penis!"

LOL LOL
 

speccy_spur

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I assume Becks is texting & phoning a few of the squad to let them know what they are in for. Check egos at the door, do not assume you have a place even on the bench, be prepared to train at match pace, if you cannot track back and break up opposition play you are dropped. Capello is a bad mofo with the players - as one report put it, he plays the 'bad cop' to his assistants 'good cop'. Any player suspected of playing the club-before-country card, claiming an injury to miss a friendly, but then turning out in the league the following weekend, will need to go into hiding.

Think the salary is far too high. A large proportion of that must be compensation to deal with the english tabloid hacks and not run off and get a more 'comfortable' job after a year. Does his contract run out just as Grant's new one runs out at Chel$ki?.....
 

joey55

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May 20, 2005
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Joey, I think you're wrong and here's why. Yes Cappello had great players at the teams he won championships with, but its still not easy to win championships. There isn't just one team in each league with sides good enough to win championships. Certainly Barcelona had just as talented a squad as Real Madrid, but Real Madrid won last year. Secondly, Cappello doesn't actually have to win anything to be successful. England aren't World Cup winning material. He simply needs to help them improve and give the English side a certain amount of respect in the world again. That may not be good enough for a lot of English fans and the English media who seem to expect trophies that England are not even close to deserving, but it is what is realistic. I think he can get them to the Semis of the World Cup or so and that is an accomplishment. And I also think its unfair to say English players are unsuited for his style. He must be given a chance to implement his style and try it, before assuming it can't work.

But that sounds like an experiment, which is exactly what it is. Yet the FA, media and fans seem happy to pay him massive wages based on his past achievemnts as if they have some great relevance to the job at hand, which I don't think they do. They are paying him as if he's a been there done that, proven coach, but in these circumstances he isn't. The FA seem to have failed to identify the criteria central to achieving success for a side of Englands calibre and instead opted for the most decorated coach they could find. I seriously doubt they've bothered to look at past Capello sides, how they play and the type of players he likes to employ and then asked football experts if this football suites the England players or is at least comparable to what is played in the prem on a weekly basis. It seems as if the FA, fans and media simply can't see passed what the guy has won and are prepared to ignore the circumstances in which he has won things. I'm not in anyway saying his achievemnts aren't great, but that they aren't particuarly relevant to the England job.

As concerns Madrid last year, you have to acknowledge he got the players he wanted. I'm not knocking his achievment. The guy knows how he wants to play and knows the perfect players to do that for him. But he won't have that for England. He won't be bringing in Cannavaro, Emerson and RVN. He's going to have to make do with what we have to offer and despite all his fantastic achievments, there is nothing in his past that suggests he can do this. Yet he seem to be being hailed as "been there got the t-shirt" coach and hence we are paying him huge wages.
 

nidge

Sand gets everywhere!!!!!
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Jul 27, 2004
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Why should we go English?
You have to go back to Joe Fagan to find your last english manager who won anything worthwhile!

Capello = 9 titles in 16 years = winner!

Don't you mean 7 titles in 16 years. The 2 at Juve don't count as they were stripped because off the match fixing.
 

dontcallme

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Mar 18, 2005
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Capello is probably as good a choice as any but personally i think Redknapp should have got the job. He's worked his way from the bottom and earnt the respect of his players and he has worked with many of the players in the squad already. He'd also do the job for much less money as he genuinely wants the England job rather than being offered such a good deal that he feels he can't say no.
 

duffman22

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Jun 4, 2005
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I don't care whether they're English or not. They could come from Jupiter for all I care.

Saying that I still don't think we'll win any major tournament for another 20 years. It'll be the same old tournament after tournament.
 

joey55

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May 20, 2005
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If Redknapp was so good, then how did Avrim Grant come from nowhere and get the Chelsea job over him?

I'm sure that can partly be answered by your username. Grant is definitely part of a Jewish old boys network. He was brought to this country by a Jewish club owner, and has been appointed head coach of Chelsea, who are also owned by a Jew. Many of the oligarchs hounded by Putin now live in Israel and Abramoivich's old partner is one of them.
 
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