Capello stays on as england manager
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Next squad hew picks could answer a few questions.
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Good, hopefully this will stop the utter rot that the poor manager has to take.
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I'm glad he's staying - it would have been daft to get rid of a manager like Capello with all his experience.
Just hope he sorts out the squad now and cuts a lot of the dregs from there and brings in some different players now ones for the future.
Just hope he sorts out the squad now and cuts a lot of the dregs from there and brings in some different players now ones for the future.
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Good.
Get rid of half the first 11.
Get rid of half the first 11.
Capello delivered the worst world cup performance of recent years, whilst being paid the highest salary of any international manager. He failed to get his team to play well together, delivered no tactical flair, failed to effectively use substitutions to alter the run of play and made a number of questionable team picking decisions.
He should have had the decency to resign.
The FA probably had little choice though, having signed him up for two more years they couldn't afford to fire him. Presumably after he fails deliver in Euro 2012, he'll be replaced. Maybe we'll get someone who can speak English next.
He should have had the decency to resign.
The FA probably had little choice though, having signed him up for two more years they couldn't afford to fire him. Presumably after he fails deliver in Euro 2012, he'll be replaced. Maybe we'll get someone who can speak English next.
+1
He kept the team in the dark for too long then expected them to take onboard a lot of information at the last minute. Resulting in a team that wasn't quite sure what it was supposed to be doing... compound that with his reluctance to make the changes that were obviously needed as the match progressed and you end up with good players becoming totally ineffective and the lesser good players dispirited and losing badly needed self confidence (hence the noobie mistakes and even tripping over their own feet/ball from several ostensibly premier league footballers).
glad he's staying, sack half the players and get new blood in!
He also romped us into the tournament through a difficult qualifying group containing teams who were probably tougher than those we struggled against in the group stages of the World Cup proper, playing some genuinely good football throughout.
Swings and roundabouts.
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Hopefully by 2012, Ferdinand is fit, Terry ups his game, Joe Cole is on starting line up, and Hargreaves is fit to play.
I do blame a lot of the players - but also Capello.
He showed no answers tactically when things were obviously going wrong, instead he stuck rigidly to a formation that wasn't working. Too many times he just switched like-for-like, when he could have looked at altering the formation & switching players already on the pitch.
As for bringing Heskey on near the end of the Germany game - let's not even go there. Most of England sighed!
He showed no answers tactically when things were obviously going wrong, instead he stuck rigidly to a formation that wasn't working. Too many times he just switched like-for-like, when he could have looked at altering the formation & switching players already on the pitch.
As for bringing Heskey on near the end of the Germany game - let's not even go there. Most of England sighed!
I'm very much looking forward to his first team selection, there's quite a few current players I expect (i.e. hope) Capello to drop.
We've had 8 years of total disappointment with the current 'golden generation', I think it's time younger players were brought in and we start from scratch. The last thing I want is for the current players to fail to deliver yet again at the next tournament.
For me, what Capello does next will determine what sort of manager he is at international level, i.e. whether he 'talks' a good game. I was full of support for Capello leading up to the WC, but some of his decisions during England's four games were a bit, well, lacking and tbh it may as well have been McLaren making them.
We've had 8 years of total disappointment with the current 'golden generation', I think it's time younger players were brought in and we start from scratch. The last thing I want is for the current players to fail to deliver yet again at the next tournament.
For me, what Capello does next will determine what sort of manager he is at international level, i.e. whether he 'talks' a good game. I was full of support for Capello leading up to the WC, but some of his decisions during England's four games were a bit, well, lacking and tbh it may as well have been McLaren making them.
I think we should drop everyone who's going to be too old to play at the next World Cup and look at building a consistent team made up of young talent who'll do us proud in four years time.
Any manager who brings on Emile Heskey when his side needs a goal should be fired.
Only reason he's keeping the job is the FA removed the break clause in his contract. If someone in a private company negotiated a contract change like that they'd be fired for gross stupidity. The FA are as big a bunch of muppets as half the players in the England 11.
If I was to pick the next squad I'd be dropping every player I didn't think would be round for 2014. Get in a really young side and get them playing proper football. Yeah we might struggle in the Euro 2012 qualifiers but we can't go on giving the golden generation chance after chance to **** me off.
Only reason he's keeping the job is the FA removed the break clause in his contract. If someone in a private company negotiated a contract change like that they'd be fired for gross stupidity. The FA are as big a bunch of muppets as half the players in the England 11.
If I was to pick the next squad I'd be dropping every player I didn't think would be round for 2014. Get in a really young side and get them playing proper football. Yeah we might struggle in the Euro 2012 qualifiers but we can't go on giving the golden generation chance after chance to **** me off.
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Good.
No to all three of those thanks! Only Terry will be in the team in two years if I had to guess.
Ferdinand doesn't have the fitness anymore, Cole will be out and Hargreaves will still be injured.
There are plenty of young players who could be blooded in the side now that we should be looking to replace the above with and I think we should be doing that.
No to all three of those thanks! Only Terry will be in the team in two years if I had to guess.
Ferdinand doesn't have the fitness anymore, Cole will be out and Hargreaves will still be injured.
There are plenty of young players who could be blooded in the side now that we should be looking to replace the above with and I think we should be doing that.
