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(16-10-2024, 01:49 PM)Username Wrote: (16-10-2024, 10:12 AM)Paplane Wrote: Disappointed we couldn't attract Pep. We should have gone to him and offered him anything he wants, money, coaches, facilities wise. We should've tried persuading him with talk of him being the greatest ever coach ever in the game when he lifts the world cup for us. He's won everything at club level there is to win and he's at the richest club in the world so that's probably the pinnacle at club level so where does he go next? The Spain job isn't going to be available for 4 or 6 years either probably. It makes perfect sense to me and it's a great fit for both parties. I hope the FA gave it a real go but I'm not confident they did, instead going for the easy option of taking an unemployed coach off the carousel.
I suspect the timing was wrong, I can't see Pep leaving City mid-season, he's a romantic when it comes to football and will want his last act at City to be immediately following him lifting a European  .
We could/should've held on for him then.
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I wonder what formation he would use? Looked at some games for Bayern and Chelsea and seen 3 different ones
4231
343
3142
I’m very intrigued by 3142, how would that look with the current pick of the England players I wonder
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Did I really just here Gary Lineker mention Russell Martin for the England job.
Oh my God I did because I played it back and listened again.
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(17-10-2024, 07:42 AM)Sniffer Dog (Admin) Wrote: Did I really just here Gary Lineker mention Russell Martin for the England job.
Oh my God I did because I played it back and listened again.
Seriously?
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That’s because the usual suspects Lineker Neville Carragher and Murphy are boring the nation about having an ENGLISH manager.
That’s despite the fact those very same media darlings would be positively creaming themselves had either Klopp or Pep got the job and indeed were asking for that to happen just weeks ago.
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(17-10-2024, 07:50 AM)Salvatore Matrecano Wrote: That’s because the usual suspects Lineker Neville Carragher and Murphy are boring the nation about having an ENGLISH manager.
That’s despite the fact those very same media darlings would be positively creaming themselves had either Klopp or Pep got the job and indeed were asking for that to happen just weeks ago.
Indeed. I saw someone retweet two articles by Sam Wallace who used to write for the Independent. One moaning that it's a non-English manager. The other one, from about three days earlier, saying England should go all-out for Pep.
The Klopp comment is an interesting one. I do wonder what the media commentary would be if he'd got the job,
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(17-10-2024, 07:42 AM)Sniffer Dog (Admin) Wrote: Did I really just here Gary Lineker mention Russell Martin for the England job.
Oh my God I did because I played it back and listened again.
(17-10-2024, 07:50 AM)Salvatore Matrecano Wrote: That’s because the usual suspects Lineker Neville Carragher and Murphy are boring the nation about having an ENGLISH manager.
Yes I get that SM.
But Russell Martin? I can't get my head around that.
How about Paul Heckingbottom Gary?
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(17-10-2024, 07:50 AM)Salvatore Matrecano Wrote: That’s because the usual suspects Lineker Neville Carragher and Murphy are boring the nation about having an ENGLISH manager.
That’s despite the fact those very same media darlings would be positively creaming themselves had either Klopp or Pep got the job and indeed were asking for that to happen just weeks ago.
That's it Sal. If Pep or Klopp had it they'd be acting like Liverpool just won the league with a Trent overhead kick in the 99th minute.
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(17-10-2024, 08:14 AM)Sniffer Dog (Admin) Wrote: (17-10-2024, 07:42 AM)Sniffer Dog (Admin) Wrote: Did I really just here Gary Lineker mention Russell Martin for the England job.
Oh my God I did because I played it back and listened again.
(17-10-2024, 07:50 AM)Salvatore Matrecano Wrote: That’s because the usual suspects Lineker Neville Carragher and Murphy are boring the nation about having an ENGLISH manager.
Yes I get that SM.
But Russell Martin? I can't get my head around that.
How about Paul Heckingbottom Gary?
It would be interesting to see the profile of successful international managers - e.g. what their club managerial career was like (if they had one) before they were appointed national manager.
One thing I did check yesterday was the nationalities of World Cup winning managers. If Tuchel were to win it with England he'd be the first manager to win the men's World Cup and not be the same nationality as the team he managed.
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We were talking about the nationality issue at work yesterday. The consensus was that no one gave a hoot what nationality the manager was. All we want to see is winning football. Not winning the qualifying or group games but winning the really big matches. Semi-finals, finals and the like. We need someone composed, tactically astute, who's able to guide these really talented players and who's not intimated by that situation. Hopefully this guy is that.
You've only got to look at the premier league squads and coaches to realise that our football has been overtaken by foreign influence.
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(17-10-2024, 11:06 AM)Paplane Wrote: We were talking about the nationality issue at work yesterday. The consensus was that no one gave a hoot what nationality the manager was. All we want to see is winning football. Not winning the qualifying or group games but winning the really big matches. Semi-finals, finals and the like. We need someone composed, tactically astute, who's able to guide these really talented players and who's not intimated by that situation. Hopefully this guy is that.
You've only got to look at the premier league squads and coaches to realise that our football has been overtaken by foreign influence.
Exactly. Which is what made me laugh listening to the likes of Redknapp and Allardyce pearl-clutching about overseas managers when their teams were always packed full of non-English players.
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(17-10-2024, 12:09 PM)Sausage Roll Wrote: (17-10-2024, 11:06 AM)Paplane Wrote: We were talking about the nationality issue at work yesterday. The consensus was that no one gave a hoot what nationality the manager was. All we want to see is winning football. Not winning the qualifying or group games but winning the really big matches. Semi-finals, finals and the like. We need someone composed, tactically astute, who's able to guide these really talented players and who's not intimated by that situation. Hopefully this guy is that.
You've only got to look at the premier league squads and coaches to realise that our football has been overtaken by foreign influence.
Exactly. Which is what made me laugh listening to the likes of Redknapp and Allardyce pearl-clutching about overseas managers when their teams were always packed full of non-English players.
Those old boys really do come across as dinosaurs now don't they?
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