Who should be next England Men's Football Team Manager? (Poll Added)

[Marcwantstowin]

So Gareth Southgate has today resigned from his role as England Football Manager.

His record in the last 8 years includes 1. World Cup quarter-final, 1. World Cup Semi-final and 2 European Championship finals.

He had the best record of any manager who has held the position of England Manager. Only Sir Alf Ramsey has a better one in winning the World Cup in 1966.

I have been thinking over the last few days, suspecting he might leave, and looking back to the past managers we have had. We have had foreign coaches (Capello and Sven) to name a couple, but although they were both world class managers, but both failed. We have had some high-profile English Manager's Don Revie, Sir Bobby Robson, Roy Hodgson, Terry Venebles and Glenn Hoddle, none of which have achieved as much as Gareth Southgate.

My question is, who do you think should be the next England Manager? Should he be English? Could it be a woman?

Give us some names, I will add a poll, but don't want to preempt any choices you may have. Make sure that your suggestions should be pretty well known, (we don't want your son's or daughter Under-9 coach).

The final question is, do you think the FA will make a right decision or a political one?

The current England men's squad, and some who were not included, looks like they could be a threat in the World Cup in canada, USA and mexico in 2026. Let's hope they give it a run for our money.

 

[dreamer13]

I think they will appoint Maurucio Pochettino.He was the captain of the argentina national team at the 1991 World Youth Championship, where the team failed to advance from the group.

 

[seiya1989]

It would be interesting to see Guardiola as England's coach. I think it could make England play much better.

 

[Ogma]

Unfortunately, I believe they will make a political decision.

You mention Don Revie. There was another, far better, manager who was overlooked for the job at the time. Brian Clough. The English FA have a history of appointing the wrong person for the job going back to 1975!

You can look at all of them since then and they have failed.

So you say, who would you give the job to then? Well, I'd say you have to go big. Klopp is free. Have Carsley as part of the team as he knows the youth players very well. Klopp can handle all the media shite that comes with being England manager. Ditto Pep.

You have to go big and you have to get the best out of England's attacking talent. Something Southgate failed miserably with.

 

[Station_Master]

Big Sam?

 

[Ricey155]

It would be interesting to see Guardiola as England's coach. I think it could make England play much better.

Good call, Klopp another fav hopefully 🤞 pep must be on mega bucks at man city

 

[Martin]

I don't care as long as they leave Eddie alone, as much as I disliked him at Liverpool I think Klopp would be a great choice but we'll likely end up with Potter.

 

[Marcwantstowin]

I don't care as long as they leave Eddie alone, as much as I disliked him at Liverpool I think Klopp would be a great choice but we'll likely end up with Potter.

Your safe, EFA are tight-wads, so they would not pay the compo. Mind you after we fail to qualify for WC 2026 and just sneak through for Euro 2028, even though it is in England, then they will come begging and if you have not won the Prem League by then your man will have a target on his back.

I agree, it will probably be Harry this time round. cos he looks like a FA man.

 

[Ogma]

Lee Carsley's worth consideration. Continuing the link between U21s and senior football will be high on the FA's list of priorities.

 

[Ogma]

My buddy mentioned Jose Mourinho. I wouldn't put it past the clowns at the FA considering the option.

 

[rdwr33]

The right thing to do would be to keep Gareth Southgate, it was a difficult game and he was not defeated by a weak team but by the best in the competition, Spain.

 

[Ogma]

The right thing to do would be to keep Gareth Southgate, it was a difficult game and he was not defeated by a weak team but by the best in the competition, Spain.

How do you keep an employee who has resigned?

 

[valeski 28]

Only Guardiola comes to my mind.A head coach from England?I don´t think so.

 

[skaterick]

How do you keep an employee who has resigned?

yeah , they did very well , and overperformed in my opinion .southgate did a good job

The right thing to do would be to keep Gareth Southgate, it was a difficult game and he was not defeated by a weak team but by the best in the competition, Spain

 

[Ogma]

There are two ways of looking at it.

Yes, England were defeated by an excellent Spanish side, but the Italian side that beat them in the last Euros wasn't that great.

Southgate has been given every bit of luck he could get regarding the easy side of the draw and avoiding 'big' sides etc. Don't forget, England were a last second equaliser away from exiting the competition against Slovakia. Without the brilliant Bellingham bicycle kick, without that last second bit of skill, they were out and the press and the rest of the country would have been baying for his sacking before he even landed back on British soil.

He has continued to fail to assemble any real cohesive style of attack. He's played players out of their natural positions. He's stubbornly stuck with a striker who could hardly run, is way past his best and carrying an injury when there is younger, hungry talent on the bench. He's wasted his pacy wide men. His brand of football has been widely criticised all over the world as being boring, unimaginative, too safe, not entertaining, cowardly etc

And the bottom line is, he's failed to win in three major tournaments with favourable draws and one of the best pools of players in world football.

 

[martDdart]

Gareth Southgate ,reason: two euro finals is a strong achievement and England will be stronger in the third,loosing is the best way to learn.

 

[mclay]

It would be interesting to see Guardiola as England's coach. I think it could make England play much better.

I thought about it too, if this England team had been led by Guardiola or Jurgen Klopp, they would have won all the trophies. This team needs attacking football.

 

[Ricey155]

Someone else 🚀

 

[Ogma]

Someone else 🚀

Same here.

Has Klopp ruled himself out of the job then?

 

[Marcwantstowin]

Klopp said he wants some time off with his family and grand-children. I guess being an international manager would not appeal to everyone, I mean can you imagine going all over the world watching football matches, not having to pay to get in or to pay for travelling expenses? What a grind - I am not sure how I would cope. 🤦‍♂️🤦‍♂️🤦‍♂️

 

[john_entony]

As a Liverpool fan, I would love to see Steven Gerrard as head coach. But I think Graham Potter is a more experienced coach. But still voted for the Liverpool legend.

 

[IronMike9000]

There are no stand out options, Potter or Howe look the most likely, after the FA get politely told to F off by Klopp and Pep. Names no one has mentioned is Xavi free agent, Unai Emery Villa, De Zerbi Brighton, Tuchel Free agent and Allegri free agent.

 

[Ogma]

Some great shouts there, Mike.

I like Emery a lot, but he's almost in the same bracket as Klopp and Pep, he's involved with a good project at Villa and he'll be on sheds more money than thee FA are willing to pay.

Tuchel is another good shout. De Zerbi, unproven for me. Allegri a very realistic candidate IMO. How good is his English? I always thought that held Capello back.

 

[lcid86]

I voted for Poch, but I'd love him to coach usmnt. I think national team coach needs to have a good offense.

 

[Ogma]

I'm going to throw Ange Postecoglou into the mix. Speaks betterer English than me, knows his stuff, yeah, I think he could do a good job. Lee Carsley as his number 2.