Pep Guardiola to manage Everton AND England? It’s an idea
Pep Guardiola as England manager is a lovely idea but would it work? Well it would if he managed at club level too.
Just make Everton into England FC and appoint Pep
Would Pep really be a good national team manager? He’s a manager that focuses on the minute details of formations, player positioning and ufabet https://ufabet999.app behaviour so would he be able to adequately coach this into his players in the week and half he’d get five times a year? It’d be interesting to see at the least.
I found it very funny how the pundits were talking about how England needed a focal point and Kane being back would give that to them. Harry Kane? Harry Kane the defensive midfielder, left back, right midfielder? That Harry Kane?
I’ve an idea though. Why don’t the FA buy a Premier League team and just sign English players? Buy Everton, make Pep the manager and play the same team in internationals, you’d end up winning everything.
Southgate knew you need your Harry Maguires
While Gareth Southgate didn’t win anything, he was more successful in winning actual games of knockout football than any manager in recent history despite some actually decent managers trying their hand. How about thinking about why that was for a start, what did he do that others didn’t? (rather than constant knee-jerk reactions to each solitary game)
Firstly, he was pretty good at ignoring the fans and media frenzy to play whoever was in form for their club. Similarly, he didn’t drop players. Who had a bad run for their club. And additionally, he didn’t throw players under the bus. He built a core of players and remained loyal to them. Some use this as a stick to beat him with but it was interesting to hear one mailboxer say they missed Maguire yesterday. That core of players was Southgate’s biggest asset and unfortunately some key ones were not available (Shaw) or injured (Kane) at the wrong times.