- May 20, 2005
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English football needs a total shake up.
From the FA, to the manager, all the way down to how we coach our youth teams.
The FA need to have people on the board who understand about football, and have been there and done it, not just financial astute pen pushers.
The Premiership needs to start playing more home grown talent, to enable a bigger pool of talent for the National manager to pick from.
A cap should be brought in to help the National team become better.
The stats from last season about how many foreigners played in 4 of the biggest leagues are as follows:-
England - 59% of the Premiership consisted of Foreigners.
Germany - 50% of the Bundesliga consisted of Foreigners.
Spain - 38% of La Liga was foreigners.
Italy - 30% of Serie A were from abroad.
* Add also European cup winners AC Milan consisted of 7 home grown players.
* World Cup winners Italy, had 2 players in their winning squad that played outside of Serie A, the rest played in Italy.
All Nations abroad seem technically better, and are able to keep the ball.
England need to start bringing up our youth teams, and coach them on a more European style.
These days at Younger levels, you have either got to be an outstanding talent to make it through the system, otherwise its players that are bigger, and stronger that mostly are picked.
The new England manager, needs to be someone that is his own man, won't bow down to media and FA pressure and play the players, system he thinks best suits.
A manager that is tactically astute, and able to get the best out of the players he has available.
My choice would be Capello, Mourinho or Hiddink.
But don't tactically astute coaches prefer tactically astute players? It's not just our general technique and skill that differs to the countries you've mentioned, but our football culture and approach to the game. Tactics, as in the European sense, just aren't part of the British game. The French league is comparitively an untactical league compared to the rest of Europe, but Adel Taarabt recently described French football as a "chess match" compared to England. The Lampard/Gerrard partnership is a prime example of the difference between how European and Britsh players are developed. They simply don't have the tactical awareness or disicpline to play together. European posters on here have in the past spoken about "role speacialists," which is something we don't really have in the English game. To me the idea of Cappello working with the England team is just a match made in hell. I don't think it's an exaggeration to say there is litterally zero on his CV that even hints he'd be the right man for England. The other 2 I'd be much happier with, though feel they'd be idiots to take the job.