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I say a total rebuild of the squad is in order with or without Capello.
Perhaps some of the ‘golden generation’ will be motivated to bring forward their retirements after that. It helped Paul Scholes for one!
So yes, start again. Blood some young players and aim at 2018.
Probably stay. Aside from the issue of Gerard on the left, everyone was saying pre tournament that he was the man for the job and on Wednesday night no-one was criticising his tactics.
Doubt if anyone else could do better with this bunch.
Probably stay. Aside from the issue of Gerard on the left, everyone was saying pre tournament that he was the man for the job and on Wednesday night
no-one was criticising his tactics
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Doubt if anyone else could do better with this bunch.
No-one was criticising his tactics Andrew, I’ve been saying since day one his tactics were all wrong. The man is a bufoon and needs to go immediately. The only problem is, the FA are even more bufoons and gave him a two year extension to his contract prior to the tournament starting
Wayne Rooney has just had the best season of his career… playing in a lone striker role. Steven Gerrard is one of the world’s best creative central midfielders.
If an England manager can’t build a team AROUND his best players then he shouldn’t be in the job. Instead, Capello sticks Gerrard out on the wing and plays Rooney in a two-pronged attack. Apart from 60 minutes against Slovenia, England have been absolutely awful using these tactics and formation. True, the players must take some responsibility but as I’ve said before, they weren’t given the chance to play to the best of their abilities because of the formation they were asked to play.
And yet again England has a manager that is incapable of changing things during a game. He did nothing against USA, nothing against Algeria, and today, when needing a goal, he changes Milner for Cole – a like for like change but no change of tactics and formation. And when we needed goals he takes of a proven goalscorer and replaces him with someone who now scores two or three goals a season
Yes I thought we’d win today but that’s because I think we have the ability to win every game. But I tell you what, England won’t even qualify for Euro 12 under this crank of a manager, not if he persists playing players out of position and a formation that doesn’t suit the players he has at hand. A lot of players appear to have lost faith/respect in him and I just can’t see how he can carry on.
When I said no-one, OneEye, I was referring to the BBC pundits and the press and specifically after Wednesday, when apparently everything was wonderful again. I agree with you, Gerard is better behind Rooney. But aside from that and possibly Crouch rather than Heskey, I don’t see what else he could have done.
The players get off far too lightly every time. How do you explain the woeful defending, the complete lack of invention, the inability to create anything? We are told these are superstars, they played like muppets. How many of the Germans would get in the England team, we were asked by Andy Townsend last night? Well on that performance, I would say about 10, with the goalkeeper the only exception.
They aren’t as good as they and so many other people think they are and it doesn’t matter who the manager is.
And as for the nationality of the manager, I think that’s irrelevant. Keegan, Hoddle and McClaren all failed as well.
How many of the Germans would get in the England team
All of them, because they played in positions familiar to what they play at club level, and thus operated as a team far better than England will ever be capable of if playing people out of position.
Agree, defence was dreadful today and Capello can’t be blamed for that.
Stay.
We need continuity not panic. Though make no mistake, we do need to restructure our approach to international football and how we bring young players through.
I think Capello can do a good job but he will have to help new players and existing ones to play more technically. Is it too late for some of the players? Perhaps.
Capello will have learned a lot from this tournament and I think he has the brains to help England go forward with how they play football. I’m not bothered about immediate success, I want a change in our attitude to football, how it is played and the importance of our national side over the Premiership.
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Anyone who says "stay" has absolutely no idea whatsoever about the requisite abilities of International managers.
Good grief you couldn’t make this up..
Go, but I don’t care. I gave up caring before the 2006 World Cup. I want the opposition to succeed, and Capello staying will give them every chance.
Harry Redknapp…..Pretty please.
At present, Redknapp is on bail on charges of Tax Evasion and there is a very real chance he will be convicted.
Therefore, unless the FA are happy to potentially see England Training Camps being held at Ford Open Prison I think it highly unlikely for them to even think about appointing him, should they choose to get rid of Capello.
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