Who Do You Want As The Next England Manager?...

[Dover]

O'Neill for me. Has been fairly successful with everywhere he has been, and could do the job.

 

[Basil Fawlty]

Lippi or Mourinho are my favourites for the job.

 

[¤DãŃn¥ §êãGüLL¤]

David Hasselhoff could do a job.

 

[Brovion]

I cannot understand why Mourinho is so popular. He bought the Premiership title at Chelsea but failed to make them a top European team. And Chelsea weren't exactly a joy to watch. He's the Don Revie de nos jours.

 

[Barrow Boy]

Mourinho

End of !

 

[Brighton Breezy]

Mourinio if its a foreigner.

If we go English it has to be Coppell.

Cos he has an EXCELLENT track record of handling PRESSURE jobs and not walking away...

Ask Man City fans about that one.

 

[keaton]

Mourinho did excellent at Porto and he's showed he can handle egos and make brave decisions. Of the others you can doubt pretty much any of them apart from Capello and Lippi and Capello's not noted for his attractive style of football

 

[Uncle Buck]

Lets be honest, Barwick is again going to approach Scholari, when he turns it down, he will appoint Stuart Pearce and try and pass him off as his first choice...

 

[¤DãŃn¥ §êãGüLL¤]

Lets be honest, Barwick is again going to approach Scholari, when he turns it down, he will appoint Stuart Pearce and try and pass him off as his first choice...

I think he might've gone off Big Phil now after Portugal's own struggles to qualify.

 

[zefarelly]

there are good managers on the list, most of them wouldn't touch the job or are just mercenaries

I don't think any of them would achieve much without considerable changes elswhere

the whole of the FA needs to be put down, and incinerated, and only then restarted as a modern governing body.

the club vs country issue needs addressing, no pay for national players, only a winners bonus.

The premiership is a business, not a sport any more so I would see a negligible input of English plyers from it if England where to start achieveing anything.

 

[Yoda]

Mourinho did excellent at Porto and he's showed he can handle egos and make brave decisions. Of the others you can doubt pretty much any of them apart from Capello and Lippi and Capello's not noted for his attractive style of football

Just out of interest, why not Lippi?

 

[Mendoza]

The premiership is a business, not a sport any more so I would see a negligible input of English plyers from it if England where to start achieveing anything.

how many foreign players were in the top division when we failed to qualify in the tournaments in the 70's, 84 and 94

 

[sten_super]

I'd love Mourinho, but don't think he'd take it. That leaves Lippi, or if he doesn't want it (I think he probably would) then Capello or Scolari.

Caveman, I'm all for passion, but not at the expense of ability. Would you really like to see Redknapp, a manager who is a wheeler dealer and never quite happy with the players he has, put in a position where he has no choice other than to use the players available?

 

[zefarelly]

I would like to See Stuaret PEarce remain as U21 manager for a few more campaigns, and if he continues the excelent work he's done so far maybe he'd step up, until then ENgland may as well not bother and concentrate on sorting themselves out behind closed doors.

 

[zefarelly]

how many foreign players were in the top division when we failed to qualify in the tournaments in the 70's, 84 and 94

you forgot 78 as well . . . 70's where dark days in player and manager quality wheren't they ? 94 wasn't much better with an FA selected 'manager'

I think the real problem is the FA itself as much as an underwhelming group of over paid club players

 

[Silent Bob]

I cannot understand why Mourinho is so popular. He bought the Premiership title at Chelsea but failed to make them a top European team. And Chelsea weren't exactly a joy to watch. He's the Don Revie de nos jours.

He did however win the UEFA Cup and Champions League with Porto, he's managed big players, he gets the best out of players. He's bold in his use of subs. He's a winner. He wouldn't be my first choice but if we got him I'd be very pleased.

Guus Hiddink - Seen it all on the international scene, with Holland, Korea, Australia and now Russia. Also had success at club level, recently doing well in Europe with PSV. Plays good football tactically astute. However it seems unlikely as he is off to the Euros with Russia and not long ago extended his contract until 2010.

Fabio Capello - Boring football, but has a good pedigree. Would be interested in the job.

Marcello Lippi - World Cup winner with Italy and a successful manager wherever he's been. But does not speak English, and probably not that interested in coming here.

Martin O'Neill - The closest thing to a decent homegrown manager, but I feel he's slightly overrated.

Steve Coppell - A good manager as we all know, but not that proven at the highest level, has only managed Man City by way of big clubs and that didn't go well.

Felipe Scolari - Turned it down once already. A good manager, very successful in South America and obviously with Brazil winning it, done alright with Portgual but I think his achievements are slightly overstated because of them knocking us out twice.

Jurgen Klinsmann - Just about turned Germany round in time, it wasn't looking good for a long time in the build up to the World Cup. How much did home advantage and getting some momentum in a pretty easy group help him? I wouldn't be all that confident if we appointed him, may work, may be a total disaster.


Others I'd suggest that are maybe slightly left field would be Louis Van Gaal, and Leo Beenhakker.

Beenhakker is vastly experienced, has managed all over the world, at club and international level. Has had a great campaign with Poland, topping their group, after doing well with Trinidad and Tobago. He is a very wily old manager. Only downside I can see is that he is getting on a bit at 65.

Van Gaal is another experienced Dutch coach, very successful with Ajax, then Barcelona. Had a dodgy stint in charge of Holland, but been succesful again with AZ. Considered taking the Australian job after Hiddink left but felt that he wanted a job where he had a realistic chance of winning things - so that might rule him out for England.

Slaven Bilic, a very promising young manager who has done brilliantly with Croatia. Has said he'd be interested in a Premiership job, could the England job tempt him after the Euros?



I'd be very happy with any of Hiddink, Mourinho, Beenhakker
Optimistic with any of O'Neill, Scolari, Coppell, Capello, Lippi, Van Gaal, Bilic
If it is any of Shearer, Allardyce, Curbishley, Redknapp, Pearce I will probably save myself the trouble and stop supporting England.

 

[keaton]

Just out of interest, why not Lippi?

Won titles and brilliantly in Europe in his spells at Juve and won the world cup with Italy. The Italy team always seems a lot like the England job, massive egos and "world best players" all of him play in similiar positions and need teams built around them

 

[Yoda]

Won titles and brilliantly in Europe in his spells at Juve and won the world cup with Italy. The Italy team always seems a lot like the England job, massive egos and "world best players" all of him play in similiar positions and need teams built around them

Sorry, just re-read your first post.

Thought you were discounting him.

 

[The Large One]

Interesting run-down Bob.

I don't think Martin O'Neill is 'over-rated' as such, more he hasn't been tested at a bigger club with bigger egos. It was no mean achievement to push Mourinho's Porto side all the way in the UEFA Cup Final - Celtic having got there playing some pretty decent football.

I am quite intrigued by the thought of Alan Shearer managing England (he was Paul Parker's choice - and not someone I'd thought of until then). He is an intelligent man who is not long out of the game and can talk the same language as the players - and would certainly know how to fire them up, and not take any shit from any prima donnas. What Shearer would have to learn pretty fast is not so much the tactical nous of doing the job right, but playing the political game with the FA - something which, unfortunately and wrongly, still needs to be done at Soho Square.

Mourinho could pull that attitude off with them - it is yet to be seen whether Shearer can.

However, I would like to see Shearer in a future England set-up in some capacity.

 

[keaton]

Please not Shearer.