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Jamie Redknapp says Jose Mourinho can inspire England's flops - and his dad won't be offered the job.
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Comments (21)
Chris Edworthy says...
I think that Jamie has got it right. This time the England Manager has got to be the right man chosen with the help of top footbal managers. Also I think that the whole structure of grass roots football has got to change. David Beckham would never have played for Man Utd. Under the present system of set up by Harold Wilkinson and Co. Let the big clubs have the choice of getting the best youngsters - because they have the finances to bring more players thro and those who do not make it - at least they can look for a lesser club and develope their future there. I do believe that under the present F.A. system because of the restrictions on club not being able to coach a player who lives more than an hour and a half from the club is stupid as they can bring young players in from any country to play at youth level. Also the coaches that take coaching courses in this country should gain experience overseas and see what the French and Dutch systems are operated to change our antique system that exsists over here!
Posted 09:22 26th November 2007
Ashley Cunningham (Manchester City fan) says...
Well said Jamie. I'd give the job to uour dad and I think you'd make a top number 2. I'm calling on the English public to get behind Redknapp and to not let the FA bring in someone that nobody wants to see. Redknapp has pretty much said he'd take the job and from the opinions i've heard and read is the most popular choice. He would bring some English passion back to us and attempt to play attractive football so why is he not a serious contender? Barwick needs to answer this question as there seems to be an agenda against him. I'd also sack the men who made Mclaren boss thus ensuring they don't get the chance to make a mess of it again. Anyone out there agree with this? Lets hear you if you do.
Posted 23:37 25th November 2007
Mike Broomy (Chelsea fan) says...
I agree with nearly everything Jamie says and it is all very thought provoking. I do how ever disagree with the Arsenal comment, as with Chelsea back in 1999 with Vialli I have to say to field a side with 11 foreign players is an awful feeling for an Englishman. To often good palyers come through and end up being squeezed out by massive signings for quick success. I would trust Mourinho with the job as he won't play "favourites" and will mould a team, it might not be attractive and after the abuse he took from fans of other clubs he might not want it. Fubdamentally we lack confidence and tactical awareness, McClaren unfortunately got it wrong on many occassions and showed that at the end with a competitive debut for Carson, one up front, not playing Terry and Cole, cluttered midfield, we need the confidence to play our game not to the strengths of other teams. Fair play to Croatia they were great to watch and showed hunger, ambition and skill...3 things we lacked,
Posted 20:53 25th November 2007
Andrew Gray (Leeds United fan) says...
Who ever takes over its time to use the youth of England and dump the Beckhams, Campbells and Nevilles. Its no offence to them but with England only playing friendlys now untill the world cup qualifiers now is the perfect time to give the younger players their chance, molding the likes of Lennon, Downing and Bentley.
Posted 13:33 25th November 2007
Terry Burton (Portsmouth fan) says...
With the amount of money earned by Premier League clubs they should be forced to invest in local park pitch upkeep so as to create better playing surfaces for local young teams. Also, a national premier youth league should be established at every club from under 9''s to under 16''s english kids only within a proper organised FA league system. The current system in this country is favouring those middle class families with money to send kids to coaching schools, killing the game at the grass root level. As for the England manager this should be decided by a panel of Premiership managers.
Posted 09:33 25th November 2007
Colin Pearce says...
Harry''s the man ! Harry has already done it. At West Ham he brought through Cole, Lampard, Ferdinad, Johnson & now at Pompey he is getting the best out of Campbell, James. He is English & proud of it too! If you want to see England in South Africa World Cup 2010, get behind Harry now!
Posted 09:25 25th November 2007
Kitson Locke (Chelsea fan) says...
To blame England's performances on foreign players is by far the most ridiculous and far fetched thing i have ever heard. All these so called people blaming foreign players do they actually think before they speak or they just follow the crowd. Foreign players are here to help improve the game and help young British players improve. But if these young British players are more interested in going to the pub or going clubbing rather than spending extra time getting help improve their technical skills. Because English players barring(Joe Cole, Wright-Phillips, Arron Lennon) have very few good flair TECHNICAL players. If you look at the top teams in the world, Brazil, Argentina, Spain most of their players even defenders have very good technical ability and good flair to go with it. Now if you look at where these players started to learn their technical skills from playing football in the streets and from their youth coaching. That brings us back to the coaching , it needs to change BIG time. They need to stop focusing on "getting stuck up" and focus on improve kids technique. They need to send these coaches to Brazil or Argentina to get some coaching experience then we can start to build for the ground up.
Posted 13:57 24th November 2007
Sam Turley says...
Jamie is correct throughout. One thing that stands out is how on earth is it right the FA has to shell out £2.5m for the remainder of his contract, regardless of anyones contract in there line of work, if you under-perform then you get the boot with no compensation which means its your own fault and responsibility you lost your job. I dont no about all forms of contract but surely the FA would benefit financially from drawing up a tournement to tournment length contract i.e. two year contracts. This might make the contract less desirable to any possible manager but with insentive bonuses for qualification to the tournements and further bonuses for the distance gained within the tournements this would surely be sufficient enough for any confident manager.
Posted 12:16 23rd November 2007
Hiten Zaveri says...
Jaime, I think what the FA needs is someone like you to manage the team! You're saying absolutely the right things - but i can see the FA making a balls up yet again with the next appointment. They are the one's that really need to be cleaned out, it's obvious they don't know the game well enough and that is why our National Team suffers - and the sad thing is it's happened before and it'll continue to happen again unless there is a 'Major' change in their English FA set-up.
Posted 11:58 23rd November 2007
Brett Cuming (Manchester United fan) says...
Finally someone in sport writes a decent article. Kids these days are still being coached by people who put all the emphasis on 'getting stuck in' , as if that's all that matters on a pitch. I remember a year or two ago reading about a manager of a youth team, i think they were call Garforth Town or something, who had been to Brazil and seen how they trained their kids using specific training methods designed to harness technical skills and develop ball control. He'd been applying it at his club and was crowing about the dramatic results these simple exercises produced. We seem to think that we need to invest millions of pounds if we wish to enhance the chances of England ever winning any silverware. Simply all we must do is change our attitude towards coaching. Take a lead from the rest of the world. We're being over taken by nations like Croatia, with a pool of far less players to chose from, but their superior coaching methods are there for all to see. It's time as a footballing nation to give up some of the values that the old guard of English pundits, coaches and various others involved in football when it was 'a man's game hold so importantly. Dedication, hard work and passion are essential to all football teams, but just 'getting stuck in' no longer works in the world. Indeed you need look only at how Arsenal's type of passing game has thrust them to the top of the PL to see how technique has now, as if we didn't already know it, become far more important than blood and thunder dedication.
Posted 11:55 23rd November 2007
Michael Adeniyi-baks (Arsenal fan) says...
Thanks a lot Jamie, I have always respected your views. The England team did not qualify ''cos most of your so-called world class players are just mediocre. Worset still, they lack what the Englishman is reputed for worldwide, the zeal to succeed. Those who manage football in this country are not serious people either, they should all be made to resign; whether they like it or not, McClaren should not be a scapegoat. To blame foreign players is the equivalent of killing the goose that lays the golden egg! If there were no foreign players the premiership would not have been the worldwide phenomenon that it is now, with different countries subscribing to UK cable TV from where the premiership gets a largesse of funds. Apart from the financial gains, the influx of foreign players into England should have helped local players and kids in the academy if they were serious to learn and also hardworking ... All they had to do would have been to watch the exciting foriegn players in their teams train and get them to help them to perfect some moves. I remember former Chelsea great Gianfranco Zola give credit to the Argentine Diego Maradona for making him the player that he was. He said he used to make Maradona give him extra training sessions on the pitch. The Italian football team reaped the benefit of foreign players in Serie A, so what''s stopping the same symbiotic effect taking place in the UK? You also cannot blame the players in isolation, you also have to look at the coaching staff, they need to go out and learn how to coach & play the beautiful game, not the kick and chase that''s been sooooo outdated! For anyone to convince me that the influx of foreigners is responsible for the plight of the English football team, they have to convince me that the same is the case with athletics or swimming for that matter! The UK should get with the programme and stop celebrating and encouraging mediocrity!
Posted 11:51 23rd November 2007
Liam Sinfield says...
At what point will people see that foreign players have nothing to do with the performance of the national team! we haven't won anything since 66'. So does the last 41 years get blamed on foreigners too?? we need to nurture our talent!! so why not build football schools instead of wasting £650million on wembley!! i agree that we do need a big name in the seat, why not wenger??? god knows that he's one of the best! thanks ps. i will do the job if the FA are stuck!!!!! the idiots!!!
Posted 11:47 23rd November 2007
Adam Ryan (Tottenham Hotspur fan) says...
As a country we do not produce enough technically gifted players who are comfortable on the ball. Our national team cannot string more the a few passes together and we are way too reliant on long upfield passes, especially from the back four. I truly believe this stems from grass-roots levels, where young kids play every weekend on shoddy mudbath pitches. In these games passing under pressure is discouraged, cries of 'just boot it' are regular, and most attempts to try something creative or skillfull rather than safe is usually met with a telling off rather than a pat on the back for trying. This isn't bad coaching necessarily, its just the kick-and -rush style of play that is effective in these wet winter matches. Unfortunately it is stifling exactly the type of young talent we require for the future - kids who can pass, who have vision and are creative on the ball. In my humble opinion I firmly believe more emphasis should be made on playing young kids football seasons in the summertime. Young children would be more inclined to join and stay in their teams and the talented ball player would flourish. We are no different to the Brazilians or Portuguese except the environments we play our football in.
Posted 11:38 23rd November 2007
David Taylor says...
I cannot agree more, good comments well made. First and foremost the idea of Marcello Lippi needs to be thrown out because the very least quality on an England manager's CV has to be the English language. I think Harry Redknapp would be a brilliant acquisition, although i don't think he will be offered it. He plays entertaining football that gets everyone excited. Furthermore, he plays football that wins matches and makes teams confident. There are virtually no other manager's (especially English) who can take players like Sol Campbell and David James and return them into CONSISTENT performers at the highest level. England are in the international equivalent of Portsmouth's relegation dog fight, I'm certain he could turn it around. However, in saying this, the most suited and ideal man for the job is the one Jamie mentioned at the top of his article. If the FA have the right planning and forward thinking then they will go all out to install Jose Mourinho as the next England manager.
Posted 11:24 23rd November 2007
Palan Senthoor (Arsenal fan) says...
I will totally agree with Jamie. He should be in the advisory panel of FA. The lack of english players in leaque is costing the english football team is absolute nonsense. The amount of money the english players getting paid could not justify the way they play the football @ international level. I am feeling sorry for the fans, as they have to pay considerable amount of money and time to watch this kind game. If I am in the FA, I will pay players if they win and if they lose will expect them to pay FA from their pocket certain percentage. I really want Arsene Wenger (Boss) to take over the england coaching position, just to show how the football should be played and make more interesting for the England fans. I will be 100% sure if he does england team will be top in the world in 2 years.
Posted 11:11 23rd November 2007
Andrew Lampard (Arsenal fan) says...
I think Jamie is absolutely spot on with his analysis, and an intelligent mild mannered man like him would be. He is the kind of consultant we need in the FA, someone who 'knows' football. He doesn't know it just through playing it, but also from having a Father like Harry around. The FA need to open their eyes. They continue to throw money at problems (£2.5million to McLaren as a 'pay off') - its ridiculous. I've said it before and I'll say it again - who is Brian Barwick? He is a waste of time, energy, position and money. Use the minds of the likes of Jamie Redknapp and Alan Shearer, use the experience of Sir Alex Ferguson and Arsene Wenger - ok, so they are not English, but I am quite sure they would be more than happy to help out in a consultancy role; especially with over 30 years managing in this country between them. It's scandalous. Yes, football in this country needs to be investigated 'branch and root' .... and this needs to start at the very top, the FA. Rip it apart and start all over again.
Posted 10:13 23rd November 2007
Ed Samuel (Manchester United fan) says...
Excellent comments Jamie. If our failing to qualify for the Euros triggers such clear and concise thinking within the FA, the future can truly be bright. I only hope something positive comes out of all this and we don't fall back into bad habits, time will tell. Come on England!!!
Posted 10:11 23rd November 2007
Andy May (Bolton Wanderers fan) says...
Although I am a big fan of some of the foriegn players in the Premiership, its about time there was a big restriction on the amount of them allowed to play in England. Players like Crouch, Bent, Defoe and Wright-Phillips don't get anywhere near the amount of games they should do for their clubs. I respect the quality of some of the foriegn players in England, but there are far too many of them. I can just see players like Agbonlahor, Ashley Young, Michael Johnson and other promising young Englishmen moving to big name clubs like Arsenal, Man Utd, Liverpool and Chelsea and with their money (Apart from Arsenal I guess) they won't be preferred over the foreigners. I would just hate to see more English talent to be spoiled like Defoe has been over the last 5 years, even though i'm not his biggest fan. However, at the end of the day, Redknapp is right. The main problem is that when in a team WITH forigners our young english players do not learn from them or concentrate on the basics at all. If we don't place some sort of restrictions on non-English players in the Premiership then the English game will once again, continue to fail over and over again.
Posted 09:32 23rd November 2007
Dawn Bean (Stoke City fan) says...
Jamie, you talk absolute sense. I wish you had managerial experience as I think you would be a great choice and have the mentality that all of us England fans want to see brought into our National team.
Posted 09:30 23rd November 2007
Michael Hansford says...
I have to agree with Jamie Redknapp we need to improve at grass-roots but to do this the mega rich F A need to plough some money back in to the game at this level. I would want the F A to go for an exprienced International coach who as that winning mentality. If they do go English than only Redknapp Snr fits the bill but he is not a yes man and will not be the F A 's puppet so will not get offered the position. As for the selection commitee it is a joke lets get a panel of past and present Premier Managers in on the selection process. to give the F A much needed advice. And for god sake put some money into Grass-Roots football and help the young English talent come through. Help the smaller clubs to finace academys to find and bring on the young talent.
Posted 09:29 23rd November 2007