Cannot believe that anyone with the intelligence to be able to read and write thinks Hoddle would be a good choice. Average pundit, consistent history of poor man management skills and has been out of the game for well over a decade. I'd honestly rather have Sherwood.
Real lack of proven English managers out there at the moment. But that does not excuse ever going for a foreign manager which should not be allowed for any country any more than picking foreign players IMO.
It's not that the players are bad. It's the same squad who played against Iceland that played Germany off the park away from home recently. I would say from the McClaren era until the early Hodgson era there was a lack of technical quality in the team but that's not the case now, we have some very talented players. Our problem is a combination of players getting burnt out from a physically demanding league and managers making poor tactical decisions. We're not going to be successful trying to play possession based football in our opponents half until we have an Ozil/Silva/Fabregas type who can pick out key passes in tight areas against teams defending deep. We should be looking to play a bit deeper ourselves and hit teams on the counter attack using the pace that we have in attack.
Sven had Beckham, Gerrard, Lampard, Scholes, Hargreaves, Carrick, Owen, Rooney, King, Ferdinand, Terry, Campbell, Cole and Neville all at the peak of their powers. The fact that he never managed to get past a quarter-final and went out to the same manager all three times who was managing a weaker team each time (except perhaps the time he had home advantage) was farcical. The guy had absolutely no tactical sense, just a desire to showcase his favourite players as often as he could regardless of form, fitness or what formation we were playing. I don't think I've ever been as shocked at a managerial decision as the one to take the 16 year old Walcott who he'd never seen play to the World Cup when Rooney and Owen were both crocked and then to pussy out of ever actually putting him on the pitch. An utterly dreadful manager who completely wasted what was probably the best crop of players we've ever had and played pathetically bad football involving Emile Heskey that was terrible to watch for years.
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