How hard can it actually be to manage a football team?
27 June 2010, 10:15 PM
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How hard can it actually be to manage a football team?
I really don't see how hard it can be to pick a good team from the "cream" of the English players in the Premiership and motivate them to go out and play. I'm no football expert, but with good advisors on board I could do it and motivate them to play. Why have the FA spent so many millions on foreign coaches. Capello hasn't played the system most pundits thought he should and we have gone out. What about a TV show to find a manager similar to the Lloyd Webber shows to find a Maria, Nancy or Dorothy. Couldn't be any worse! All you have to do is pick your best team, make sensible substitutions and gee them up during training and half time. I could do this, you could do this.....I sense a cliché coming.......it really isn't rocket science!
I will happily do the job for £100,000 a year and when we go out of the next tournament at least I will have been cheap.
But, maybe with me at the helm.....just maybe? 
I will happily do the job for £100,000 a year and when we go out of the next tournament at least I will have been cheap.
But, maybe with me at the helm.....just maybe?
27 June 2010, 11:15 PM
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A manager that cant speak the lingo, Captain Terry demoted, next in line got injured, 3rd choice's club manager just been sacked plus he's on the verge moving club and moving to another country so his mind is probably elsewhere.
The press also put way too much pressure on the players before a ball was even kicked.
The press also put way too much pressure on the players before a ball was even kicked.
27 June 2010, 11:16 PM
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I've never understood the whole sacking people for mistakes. In the news you hear about people being made to step down or in footy's instance Fabio may get the sack but how do you learn from your mistakes if you get the sack as soon as you've made them?
If you don't make mistakes, you're not working on hard enough problems. And that's a big mistake.
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27 June 2010, 11:23 PM
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And surely managing the national team must be easier than managing a club? You don't have to worry about buying and selling players, the size of your squad, whether to concentrate on the league or the cup, keeping the shareholders happy, etc. etc.
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27 June 2010, 11:39 PM
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You have the media - much worse than any shareholder.
You get limited time to create a team and get them to gel.
You are limited by the players in front you from your nation.
The size of your squad is defined by international rules.
Everything you do is scrutinised in great detail.
Worst job in the world - not surprised he asked for £6m!
28 June 2010, 07:31 PM
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He's just re-negotiated his contract according to BBC radio 4............The FA will have to pay him £12 million severence pay if they sack him.......I think the poor management was a ploy for a massive payout LOL
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28 June 2010, 10:42 PM
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It was reported widely before the World Cup started that the FA pushed Capello to remove the break clause as they wanted to prevent him signing for Inter.
As Capello said yesterday when challenged about the money he was paid, he said that was how much they offered. Can't really hold that against him!
As Capello said yesterday when challenged about the money he was paid, he said that was how much they offered. Can't really hold that against him!
29 June 2010, 09:13 AM
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If you have as was said the cream of the England football players on the pitch, I find it difficult to understand why they can't naturally play as a team anyway, surely that should be second nature to them since that is their job after all!
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29 June 2010, 12:31 PM
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Check out the film "miracle" it shows how one coach took a team of ice
hockey players with ego's broke them down, and then went on to smash
Russia in the olympics and take gold!
Even if our guys never kick a ball , there still picking up four figure salaries
every week.
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29 June 2010, 01:25 PM
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You may well be right Mart, but how do they manage in their league teams then?
The difference this time was that they did not do any running about which was of significant value, and neither did they even manage to do any passing which could have developed into an attack on the goal! They seemed to spend ages tapping it about between themselves in their own half until they lost possession of the ball!
You are right about their attitude problem, I could not help thinking that the result of the match was the last thing of interest on their minds.
Les
The difference this time was that they did not do any running about which was of significant value, and neither did they even manage to do any passing which could have developed into an attack on the goal! They seemed to spend ages tapping it about between themselves in their own half until they lost possession of the ball!
You are right about their attitude problem, I could not help thinking that the result of the match was the last thing of interest on their minds.
Les
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