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England have the perfect coach in Gareth Southgate, according to some, but others dream of a Harry XI.It’s laughable really that we’re even discussing replacing Southgate as England manager, his achievements in the role easily surpass anyone since Ramsey and with a World Cup only eight weeks away it would be a blatant act of self-harm to sack him now. Even more absurd however are, Pochettino, Zidane, Redknapp! I even had a mate the other day suggest Brendan Rodgers as the best option. I despair.
He should be tactically conservative. Like it or not history shows that defensive solidity and midfield control works best in international tournaments. It matters little what his current club record is. The ‘he got Middlesbrough relegated’ trope has clearly been shown for what it is, meaningless. Selection is one area where we’ve fallen back in to the toxic trend as a fan base on assuming constructing an entirely different XI, with entirely different tactics is easy and will yield better results. This happens nearly every time England don’t play to the barnstorming standard they have never reached in the history of time and yet somehow a lot of fans expect.
Southgate’s done a fine job at England, but after watching some of the biggest names in World football, trudge through ultra-vanilla 0-0s and 1-0 defeats for a year and a half, it’s hard not to be seduced by the thoughts of a swashbuckling Harry Redknapp side instead.In the nets, I’m going with Ramsdale. It’s my personal Pickford bias, that I can only hope Harry shares.
Up top, it’s the new and improved little and large formula that thrived with Crouchy and Defoe – Raheem Sterling tucked in close as a number 10 behind Harry Kane. Two players Redknapp probably dreamed of coaching.Go on FA… make it happen.Sorry, but Jonny Nic’s premise that we don’t have the players is quite patently not true. What, you think it was Southgate’s amazing tactical approach that saw us reach a semi and a final? Come on now.
Bellingham is one of the best talents in world football and has racked up a lot of excellent games for Dortmund, and plays well for England. Rice is excellent, would get into most sides. Philips even good enough to be picked up by Pep. Mount? The Nations League was devised to give meaning to more international games, since the quality and interest in friendlies was dropping at an alarming rate. In reality the obvious answer was to have less games but this is UEFA we are talking about so that was never going to happen. One interesting thing that I think is happening is the approach to games by the top tier and teams in tiers 2-3 in each match. For Leagues A and B, it’s roughly the top ten ranked teams vs the rest.
I know sod all about what goes on inside Jude Bellingham’s head, but he turned down the clusterf*ck of Man United to join a club that is known to develop and give youth a chance. He must be a sensible enough fella.
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