15 Jul 2024 23:50:09
Should Southgate do the honourable thing and resign from England. I wonder whether the FA would try to entice Jürgen Klopp to take over.
International management is far less demanding than Club football and England would be worth watching for the first time in my lifetime.
16 Jul 2024 05:14:48
Klopp working with the FA errr nooo, the only way that happens is mad amounts of cash, even then Jurgen has no reason to pick to manage a successive team of losers if he so wished ha could manage Barcelona Both Madrid's or Bayern so why would he want to manage England they fined him 30,000 didn't they.
16 Jul 2024 07:33:01
Why would Klopp give himself the headache of dealing with both the FA and those cretins in the press.
16 Jul 2024 08:31:14
Better England teams with better managers have played better football and failed to get to any final. Maybe Southgate’s timid football hoping to win tournaments on pens is the way forward. It’s not good on the eye ( my opinion) barring the odd bit of brilliance but he is the only England manager in my lifetime that has got to two finals. Maybe he should stay?
16 Jul 2024 08:48:19
Would Klopp be obliged to answer questions from S#n "journalists"?
16 Jul 2024 09:40:49
For his final year the whole country spent the time saying klopp was overrated, underachieved and that he was a nasty sore loser.
That's both in media and with the fans, why would he want to manage people that think so poorly of him?
16 Jul 2024 11:25:08
Well, you got your wish. He has resigned. Let's see who next they appoint for the chopping block.
16 Jul 2024 11:45:20
It’ll be another “yes man”.
Eddie Howe, Graham Potter that kind of manager.
Someone devoid of any personality or sense of humour. Someone who could bore the leaves off the trees.
Klopp wouldn’t get shortlisted, he doesn’t have the right personality.
16 Jul 2024 11:54:25
My wife doesn't know who Jurgen Klopp is so it couldn't have been the whole country.
16 Jul 2024 12:10:13
Nevada, I’m sure those same people would be elated if klopp was somehow convinced to take the job and would praise the fa no end for getting a world class coach known for adventurous football to take the job.
16 Jul 2024 12:30:06
Rumours that the US has approached Klopp about their national role, though apparently he rejected it. I think he will enjoy some time out then take over either Germany or one of top European clubs.
{Ed002's Note - This was dealt with a week or so ago.}
16 Jul 2024 12:41:59
It baffles me that people think that Klopp would be interested in the England job. He hated the English media as a club manager why would he be willing to times that by 100 when it’s internationals time.
16 Jul 2024 13:53:57
Iron man the way you described England is kinda what Liverpool were before Klopp joined.
16 Jul 2024 14:18:34
Ron, a humourless manager or one who is devoid of personality would still be okay, I would say. Cappello fit that bill perfectly. I would think a manager who knows how to "play football" (as Klopp used to always say) would or should be a higher priority. There are so many managers who play a progressive, positive, attractive to play, football. Why can't the country get it's hands on one? The players for it are certainly there.
16 Jul 2024 16:42:20
The football Southgate plays is worse than boring. It’s weak, passive, reactive. Every time we come up against anyone half decent we get beaten because we are scared to attack.
I don’t get the ‘but we got to 2 finals’ narrative. We scraped to 2 finals and gifted them both to the opposition who were both there for the taking.
He admitted that Kane wasn’t fit yet he started him in every game in a major tournament we had a very good chance of winning. That alone shows what a weak, pathetic manager he is and the team played in his image.
I’d much rather go out in a blaze of glory, playing fast, attacking football than cower in the corner crying to my mummy whilst the bigger footballing nations take the trophies.
Glad Southgate’s gone he was never the right man for the job.
16 Jul 2024 16:59:48
ArAy - my answer to your question is “because the FA don’t want that”.
They have a ‘personality type’ and I’m a big believer that a team plays in a style which reflects their manager.
They don’t want an adventurous, exciting manager, they want dull, steady, predictable.
I don’t know what “progressive football” means.
“Progressive” seems to be a word thrown about to describe anything anyone likes these days.
We could see a lot worse than “regressing” back to the days where we played with 5 attacking forwards.