I love all this talk about him running the camp too strictly and upsetting the players. This was one of the things everyone cried out for after competition after competition being more about the wag tarts than the matches.
People are deluded if they think we can win a major tournament without a major re-think in our league, from fixtures to friendlies and clubs releasing players. The yanks will win the world cup before we ever do again. I've been saying that since 94.
Harry would be frankly nuts to take the job in anyway except part time. The best international manager in the world can't sort this mess out because the rot runs deeper than just the team in how we approach international football.
What, every other league deals with internationals in the same way. Some leagues have a winter break, MOST of the top players at the top teams play in games anyway. Barcelona went off to the club world cup and many of the Spanish national side players had games. That national side has players who routinely get to the champions league final, go the distance in all cups and play a long summer tournament for years on end.
So no, a winter break is in no way required. The ONLY difference with Germany/Spain of late is both quality of player and choosing a system that suits that squad. Is Klose doing brilliantly in the league in terms of goals and assists, no, but his actual football and link up play was brilliant, and so he went to the world cup and played brilliantly for Germany.
We've had crap managers picking crap teams for over a decade, its as simple as that.
Johnson, Ledley King, Walcott, Heskey, Barry and Gerrard shouldn't be in the team, Gerrard can't stick in a position, isn't nearly good enough defensively to play in the middle for me and there are just better options FOR THE TEAM.
As someone put it the other day, in the last world cup losing badly to Germany and about to go out what did Capello do, what was his master plan..... seriously........ it was bring Heskey on?
TO blame the league or anyone but the manager when in the World cup finals with 20 minutes to go bringing on Heskey. it was Capello, and no one else's choice to pick Heskey, it was his, and no one else's choice to bring on Heskey against the 2nd best team in the competition. Sorry but, the buck stops with Capello and no one else. Players underperform, some overperform, its the managers job to pick the players who will perform, he failed, miserably.
Forced into certain decisions due to injury, with Wilshire/Parker/Young England have looked dramatically better AS A TEAM in the past year. Parker/Young could have been first team his entire time in charge, and both should have been.
It's rather like Wenger getting "credit" for playing Ox, when he was the last choice after everyone else was injured, the actual question is why wasn't he playing him before there was no other choice.
Capello sucked, end of.
