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[–] SJM_93@alien.top 1 points 1 year ago (6 children)

Might stick a few quid on this, not sure why the FA insist England must have an English manager but hey-ho.

[–] corpboy@alien.top 1 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I think it's the fault of Capello really, who was so foreign, quite cold, terse, with not a great command of the language, and hugely underperformed with squad cohesion (ie, the soft side of the job) being a failure of the team. Not that I'm putting all the blame on Capello... the media and the players all have to take some share of that. Also, his style was of his time.

I think if we had a warm and cuddly foreign manager with great English, like Klopp was when he first started at Liverpool (he's a bit more jaded now), then the FA would consider it. Even if you're a Southgate doubter, you can't deny that he's made such huge progress on squad cohesion.

[–] izzy_tm@alien.top 1 points 1 year ago

Just to add to this, there's no way the FA haven't taken notice of Wiegman being such a success. As long as they speak decent English and will throw themselves into the job, I think they'd be open to a non-English person.

[–] ghostmanonthirdd@alien.top 1 points 1 year ago

That’s precisely the reason I’m not keen on the idea of Mourinho taking over. The atmosphere in the squad is incredibly harmonious and I just don’t see him carrying that on. We can’t afford to have a fractious dressing room.

[–] FrostyJesus@alien.top 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

No foreign manager has ever won the Euros or World Cup

[–] A_Round_of_Gwent@alien.top 1 points 1 year ago

Maybe that's because top teams rarely appoint foreign managers? Foreign managers can't win the Euros or the World Cup with France or Germany or whatever if they don't even get appointed to begin with

[–] HyderabadifromHyd@alien.top 1 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I froget but was Capello good with England?

[–] SJM_93@alien.top 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

He was until the 2010 tournament where he decided to ditch the tactics that brought us to the tournament and play a brexit 4-4-2 with Emile motherfucking Heskey up top. I'm still fuming about that 13 years later.

[–] AnnieIWillKnow@alien.top 1 points 1 year ago

He was awful

England played dire football under him, and the players didn't like him

It was bad on the pitch, and bad off of it

He had a more talented group than Southgate, to boot

[–] woeisuhmebop@alien.top 1 points 1 year ago

If England want to win a trophy it won’t be the manager who wins it, it will be the players. At the last Euros the squad was good, and maybe should have won, but they just didnt have the experience or the stature to take it all the way. Now there’s players like Kane and Bellingham, the best players at two of the biggest clubs in the world, and several Champions League winners in the squad they know how to win - the manager can be anyone who gives them the platform to take it on.

[–] Fearless_Pick_2843@alien.top 1 points 1 year ago

Believe no team with a foreign manager has ever won the World Cup

[–] RedaveNabTidderEkow@alien.top 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

For no particular reason, I kinda prefer the manager of England to be English, though.

[–] SJM_93@alien.top 1 points 1 year ago (3 children)

I couldn't care less personally, foreign managers of national teams have been a thing since the beginning and why handicap yourself when others won't do the same?

[–] Fffiction@alien.top 1 points 1 year ago (2 children)

However when England tried it they actually managed to handicap themselves with the couldn't give a fuck at the time Fabio Capello. Remember the Capello Index?

[–] Jarvis_Strife@alien.top 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Ah. Down against Germany in a World Cup and deciding to being on Heskey

[–] FridaysMan@alien.top 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Because Heskey was class, yeah.

[–] Antisym@alien.top 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] FridaysMan@alien.top 1 points 1 year ago

Class is eternal.

[–] NotClayMerritt@alien.top 1 points 1 year ago

but that speaks more to decision makers in the FA being a bunch of incompetents than it is an indictment on the foreign manager.

[–] Call_me_Tetsuo@alien.top 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

and why handicap yourself when others won't do the same?

Most do thought don't they? The only nations that often hire foreign managers are the African nations no? Is there any major national team that had a foreign manager recently?

[–] SJM_93@alien.top 1 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Last two I remember off the top of my head that weren't for England are Martinez at Belgium and Phil Scolari at Portugal.

[–] Call_me_Tetsuo@alien.top 1 points 1 year ago

Oh ja! I don't know why I forgot Martinez with Belgium/Portugal. Scolari was ages ago lol, may as well mention Capello at England too. Carlo may be the next one with Brazil.

[–] CercleBruggeKSV@alien.top 1 points 1 year ago

And now Tedesco for Belgium and Martinez for Portugal.

[–] PureDarkness93@alien.top 1 points 1 year ago (3 children)

The world cup has never been won by a manager managing a country different to his own nationality

[–] Mihnea24_03@alien.top 1 points 1 year ago

Greece didn't win a World Cup but I'd still say it was a good deal to bring in a foreign manager

[–] mzp3256@alien.top 1 points 1 year ago

That is true, but I don't think that means it's impossible for a foreign manager to win a World Cup. I think that's just a sign that the elite nations don't need to hire foreign managers because they have plenty of domestic managers to choose from.

Germany, Argentina, Brazil, Italy, France, and Spain have never been managed by a foreign manager at a World Cup. We don't know if they're capable of winning a World Cup with a foreign manager because they've never tried.

England couldn't get past the WC Quarterfinals with Eriksson and Capello, but they still did better than the English managers before and after them. Netherlands made it to the 1978 WC Final with Austrian Ernst Happel as manager. And Belgium 2018 and Portugal 2006 made it to the WC Semi-Finals with foreign managers.

[–] gkkiller@alien.top 1 points 1 year ago

Correlation not causation, the World Cup has only been won by countries with a rich history of football that means they're capable of producing great managerial talent too.

That's obviously not to say England is incapable of producing world class managers, but for various reasons English managers' career progression is more limited in England.