Whilst I'd agree that there is a disjunct between the headline and the article. I didn't think the article was good anyway. It's just yet another Fleet Street piece that assumes that the ultimate goal for everyone involved in football is to work for one of the Nation State owned monoliths...
The premise in the headline is a massive assumption, unsupported by anything in the article. Boil it down to what is known and what is inferred or presumed, let's say fact and guesswork:
We've stopped scoring goals: Fact;
European games seemed to be RDZ's destiny but now he might have to lump...