The Road to World Cup 2026 and UEFA Nations League

[Tony Towner]

Maybe Belgium and Portugal are the closest to the top 5 to have done it with both employing Martinez and Belgium now having Tedesco. Can't think of any top notch Belgian head coaches but Portugal have a fair bit of talent there but maybe they prefer to be employed in club management

The difference between us and those nations is what we pay our head coach. A Mourinho for example would historically earn more in club football than managing Portugal.

 

[Elephant Pyjamas]

I think it's always been a bit odd that the manager of a national team doesn't also have to be of that nation in the same way the players are.

But obviously not for the same reasons as this xenophobic shit...this is just vile, I thought this had all disappeared after 1996

 

[Paddingtonwolf]

Questionable managerial background?

He has won the Champions League, the Club World Cup, leagues...

Jesus fucking Christ. The Mail is a fucking disgrace.

I fervently hope that his first action on January 1 is to immediately ban the xenophobic cunthole of a rag from all his press conferences while he is in charge.

 

[Elephant Pyjamas]

"We might have made an exception for Pep" near the end.

Twats.

 

[Lupo]

Its the reverse of the English manager love-in - the likes of Howe, Dyche, O'Neil, Lampard, et al get so much smoke blown up their arses and so little scrutiny compared to the foreign coaches. Even when I hear them interviewing Pep there often seems to be a sneering, cynical tone to their questioning and why like in our case, O'Neil seems to be getting such an easy ride when the majority of us think what is happening is a slow ride back to the Championship

 

[ROVERT47]

Stupid twat on his first press conference, “will you sing the National Anthem?”, just fuck off, who gives a fuck, apart from the rabid hard right obviously.

 

[Lupo]

He is coming across ok and handling the questions very well

 

[ROVERT47]

Talks better English than me, low bar though.

 

[Lupo]

Watching SSSN its fair to say Redknapp Jr is a little bit more on board with it than his old man

 

[Tony Towner]

Is the first S shitty?

 

[Lupo]

Thought SS seemed inappropriate

 

[Lupo]

https://twitter.com/x/status/1846279719227928682

 

[Tony Towner]

Not just the Mail, Telegraph and anyone on Sky climbing in. The Mirror are too

Thomas Tuchel is a risk for England but it's nothing to do with his nationality

Never mind his nationality, real mysteries of England appointment are the inflated wages and the ridiculous delay until the new manager starts the job

www.mirror.co.uk

 

[Alan]

From a certain perspective I get it. There is something a little bit special about an international manager being the same nationality as his/her squad. But if you treat it as a hard requirement you’ll only fuck yourself in the end. And I’m purposely ignoring the jingoism as those fools probably aren’t changing their minds before they get a headstone.

As @Tony Towner rightly points out, the issue shouldn’t be that Tüchel is German, it should be that the system appears to be failing British/English managers. They don’t seem capable of that final leap.

Feeling similarly about Poch and the US, but again, the issue isn’t Poch, it’s that no American manager comes close to his quality (and I don’t even think Poch is all that amazing).

 

[Tyrannosaurus Dan]

Fuck the haters. Who cares if he’s German? I only care if he’s any good.

Tommy Tuchel’s Barmy Army

 

[AndyWolves]

https://twitter.com/x/status/1846279719227928682

It's sad that an English manager isn't good enough.

 

[Sniffer]

Ian Holloway was on LBC earlier stating that it should go to an Englishman and we have lots of good up and coming coaches. He then used the examples of Eddie Howe and Kieran McKenna.

 

[Wolftone]

I'd prefer if the manager was English but cant think of one I'd give the job to .
Tuchel speaks good English I think that is important and should be a consideration
Capello didn't.
Tuchel must do better than Southgate though. Not an easy act to follow tournament-wise.

 

[Jack Regan]

So. So far we've had football luminaries Harry Redknapp, Danny Mills, Dean Ashton, Ian Holloway and a load of right wing rags come out against the appointment. Put like that, then it seems the FA have done a good job.

 

[Wolftone]

So. So far we've had football luminaries Harry Redknapp, Danny Mills, Dean Ashton, Ian Holloway and a load of right wing rags come out against the appointment. Put like that, then it seems the FA have done a good job.

It's ok saying an Englishman should get the job, preferable.
But like I said, name one