[Albion] Thomas Tuchel **Appointed England Manager 15/10/24**

[Cordwainer]

Crikey.

For you Tommy, the VAR is just beginning.

 

[dejavuatbtn]

'We should have appointed an Englishman'.

What is wrong with the above statement?

Sexist?

 

[Chicken Run]

I wish i gave that much of a shit about the England football team to give a shit about which loser is next on the list of England managers, one word, meh and feel free to not bookmark this post !

 

[Randy McNob]

Not sure how we and the FA in particular, have arrived at a position where there is no one who is English who is thought to be capable of managing the national team at our national sport. I can't see Spain, Italy, France or Germany going down the same route any time soon. We seem to be stuck in a cycle of repeating the same mistakes over and over again.

Nail on the head. The most succesfull England managers were English, the worst England managers were both foreign. How on earth have the FA bigwigs sat round a table and come to the conclusion going foreign again would be a good idea?

The real issue here is the FA are clueless

 

[Eric the meek]

Sexist?

Obviously, when I said Englishman, I was referring to anyone born in England who identifies with whatever they want*.

I was aiming to make the point that by confining the search to English, you would be excluding 99.3% of the world's population.

*I reckon I got away with that one.

 

[Triggaaar]

I've no doubt this has been covered already:

Bayern Munich won the title 11 times in a row, Thomas came in, and they finished 3rd, 18 points off the pace.

WTF?

EDIT - here we are

Couldn’t win the Bundesliga with Bayern Munich. The first Bayern manager to do this in 11 seasons.

Thank you (PS, first in 12 seasons)

Surely we should be looking at the best English manager who the FA can recruit.

I don't go with that. Wiegman has been brilliant for our women's team.

If we had appointed Pep or Klopp I'd be dancing 'round the kitchen right now. But I'm not happy with the appointment of Tuchel.

 

[ManOfSussex]

The FA could have appointed Tomasz Schafernaker, so long as they didn't appoint Potter.

 

[Cordwainer]

Not forgetting of course, he’s got the Chelsea stink on him .

 

[Harry Wilson's tackle]

Nail on the head. The most succesfull England managers were English, the worst England managers were both foreign. How on earth have the FA bigwigs sat round a table and come to the conclusion going foreign again would be a good idea?

The real issue here is the FA are clueless

Best: Sir Alf.

Worst: Schteeve? Revie? Old grand dad?

Who were those worst foring managers? Sven was decent. The miserable Italian was decent.

The reason why we shouldn't have a foreign manager isn't because foreign managers are no good. It's because they are foreign. That is sufficient reason.

However, Tommy Tootle is the best available manager, so until there are better English managers available, I'm not going to shit my bed.

 

[Swegulls]

He has a firm handshake! Let's see if its enough.

 

[Gabbafella]

I'm thinking of getting my tits done.

 

[backson]

'We should have appointed an Englishman'.

What is wrong with the above statement?

It’s “should of”?

 

[BBassic]

I for one welcome our new German overlord.

 

[hart's shirt]

Nail on the head. The most succesfull England managers were English, the worst England managers were both foreign. How on earth have the FA bigwigs sat round a table and come to the conclusion going foreign again would be a good idea?

Ok, we covered this previously during the Euros. That's simply not true.

With regards to win percentages excluding caretaker managers like Carsley or single game managers like Allardyce, the top 6 are as follows.

Capello 66.7% (28 wins in 42 games)
Southgate 62.7% (64 wins in 102 games)
Ramsey 61.1% (69 wins in 113 games)
Hoddle 60.7% (17 wins in 28 games)
Greenwood 60.0% (33 wins in 55 games)
Eriksson 59.7% (40 wins in 67 games)

With the 2 previous foreign managers in 1st and 6th, you might have to do a bit more convincing here with an argument based on nationality alone.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/England_national_football_team_manager

 

[SeagullsoverLondon]

The FA could have appointed Tomasz Schafernaker, so long as they didn't appoint Potter.

He'd have made heavy weather of the job, I fancy

 

[peterward]

Nail on the head. The most succesfull England managers were English, the worst England managers were both foreign. How on earth have the FA bigwigs sat round a table and come to the conclusion going foreign again would be a good idea?

The real issue here is the FA are clueless

The FA bigwigs first remit, is to stay in power and feather their nests.

Came down to a Punt on either Tuchel or Carlsey as best option to continue with their fat salaries and maintaining status quo.

 

[Napper]

Let’s hope he is as good as Southgate and if so we are in for more successful times

 

[Trevor]

Very surprised. The sort of character that England never appoint

 

[tstanbur]

Does anyone know if the Fake Sheikh is still around?

 

[Sully's Moustache]

The most important question is will he sing God Save the King?