Either Football Weekly or The Totally Football Show made a point that a good club manager doesn't make a good international manager, that most international managers have in fact been fairly mediocre at club level. In international management you need to find a man with a clear plan who can pick the right players for his plan and who can communicate said plan to his players in the short period of time they have. Admittedly that sounds easier than it really is but it shouldn't be as hard as the FA make it look.
I think he's just not used to be starved of the ball and felt the need to come looking for it. I don't mind Sterling, I think he gets way more shit than he deserves for England, but he'd be in my England starting 11 just about every time.
The meeja don't want success. Failure is what really sells papers/clicks.I still cannot believe Allardyce who is exactly the type of manager England needed, was driven out and replaced by Southgate, who is frankly Conference League level at best.
It's as if they don't want success.
England winning a tournament would sell a lot.The meeja don't want success. Failure is what really sells papers/clicks.
The Premier League don't seem to want to help the England team either, such a contrast to the other top European football nations.The meeja don't want success. Failure is what really sells papers/clicks.
For a day. Failure sells for weeks or even months.England winning a tournament would sell a lot.
For a day. Failure sells for weeks or even months.
For a day. Failure sells for weeks or even months.
You were doing so well BC. I was winnering your every comment.
His appearances over the last 10 games have been nothing short of pathetic.
I lost count the amount of unforced errors from him yesterday. For a chap that is a lover of brains, I bemused to how you'd champion a player that has only air between the ears.
The Premier League don't seem to want to help the England team either, such a contrast to the other top European football nations.
When is this for? Not sure why you've got Jones and Delph who are injured, but ignored Lallana, Welbeck, Rose, etc.?
I made the same suggestion a few pages back. We should play a 3421 system I'm, as Spurs do. Replacing the Dembele role is the hardest bit and although Winks is good, he's not pacey or strong. Honestly, the closest we currently have I'm is Delph and he is not close in terms of overall quality. The midfield is our biggest problem. Lallana and Alli play in a similar way, Wellbeck and Rashford and Lingard all play in a similar way and Sterling is just too wasteful in possession. Forster and Hart are similar in level. Rose may have a serious problem I'm, so ATM it has to be Bertrand and Stones and Keane have different strengths. Jones is in form and playing well, so it's who contributes most out of Stones or Keane.Why not simply try playing like Spurs?
Build the team around the Spurs contingent, including Walker, set them up in the same way that Spurs do, and fill the gaps with players closest to the Spurs player in that position.
Hard to find English Eriksen, Toby and Jan and so on, but do your best. Look for the closest you can get, rather than picking different types of players for jobs they don't understand, switching them around all the time, and even changing the formation to fit your today's favourite player.
At least it gives the team a clear shape and a style they can learn to understand.
We know it can work, we have half the players for it already, and it makes life simpler for everyone. At the very least everyone would know what they need to learn in training, and what they need to try to do during matches. Each non-Spurs player can even learn their job just by studying Spurs throughout the season, rather than waiting for the few days of England training each year. .
Keep doing it, no chopping and changing, no experimenting except for injury cover, just go for it 100% for a couple of years and see if England, with our limited player resources, can compete as effectively with the mega-nations as Spurs can with the mega-rich clubs.
No, of course it won't happen. But we could do a lot worse. And will.