Already candidates for succeeding Capello are stepping forward

September 10th, 2010 | by: Rob |

harry redknapp2 So within 24 hours of Fabio Capello confirming that after Euro 2012 he’s going to go and do his garden, potential candidates to succeed him have already started making noises. “You’ve got to take the job if you get offered it” says Harry Redknapp. “To go on the international stage would be exciting” says Sam Allardyce. “I would love to have a go” says Steve Bruce.

Roy Hodgson is of course, also in the frame, and the FA have left the door open for Martin O’Neill, by saying they’ll actually be looking for a British manager next, not an English one.

Its a bit far off to be thinking about who I want to be taking the job, and a hell of alot could change in two years – one of those guys could blow their reputation entirely, or someone else could make their name spectacularly.

But lets take a look at the candidates anyway.

Harry Redknapp would probably be a popular choice with the masses, but I do have some reservations. Sure he’s achieved alot – Turning West Ham into a really decent side, Portsmouth’s FA Cup win, putting Spurs in the Champions League and so on. But you know all his ex-clubs aren’t do that well at the minute. Surely not a coincidence. His cheeky chappy Cokernee Man O’the People schtick is kind of boring as well. I can imagine the FA talking to him and then deciding that he’d be to hard to manage or whatever.

Sam Allardyce probably suffers from the same things, he is a big personality. I’m usually all for joga bonito, although I do admire what Sam achieved with Bolton and the thing he is building at Blackburn. He would have England playing a very English type of football, but he could probably get us to over-perform.

Steve Bruce? Well, he is a bit underrated really, its not coincidence that he left Birmingham with them looking relatively safe, before taking over struggling Wigan and it was the former who went down. He turned Wigan into a solid top half of the table kind of side, and is quietly looking to do the same at Sunderland. I struggle to see him as England manager though

Roy Hodgson has international experience, having managed and his stock has risen since taking Fulham from the brink of relegation to the Europa League final.I like Hodgson, though he has had a sometimes patchy managerial career. I could get behind him being England boss though.

Martin O’Neill, well he’s done good jobs everywhere he’s been, but interesting fact – he’s never been fired, he’[s quit every job he’s ever had. He just seems to get bored after a certain amount of time, and his timing in leaving Villa was frankly a bit ridiculous. I could take him as England manager though, I’m not bothered at all by the fact that he isn’t English.

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http://www.worldcupblog.org Daryl

“I wouldn't say no,” says Daryl.

Assuming they don't offer it to me, I'd be happy with any of the above, mostly because they're experienced.

It's been a long time since we gave the job to an experienced English manager. Hoddle had 2 years at Swindon, 2 years at Chelsea before getting the England job, McClaren had 5 so-so years at Boro and Keegan had a volatile 5 at Newcastle, 2 at Fulham.

So the last time we appointed an English manager with serious experience was Venables in '94.

Bruce might be the most questionable of the guys mentioned in the post, but even he's been managing for over a decade now.
http://www.soccerlimeyinamerica.com SoccerLimey

I think Hodgson, Redknapp and Bruce are definite possibles with Hodgson obviously at the front but he'll be too old when he's done at Liverpool. O'Neill's paranoia wouldn't be a comfortable fit and Allardyce, for me, wouldn't get within a mile of the job.
http://www.worldcupblog.org Daryl

One man not being mentioned: Stuart Pearce.

I always assumed the FA were sort of grooming him to take over eventually, so it's odd that his name hasn't been brought up too often in the media.
http://www.soccerlimeyinamerica.com SoccerLimey

I agree, Daryl. Pearce never gets a shout probably because of the problems at the Eastlands while he was running the show. I think he's done a great job with the Under-21's and Capello obviously likes him.

He might be a dark horse for the job. He'd come cheap too which the FA will love.
http://japan.worldcupblog.org/ Aidan

But this is all two years away like you say (unless things go utterly pear shaped beforehand), and by then who is to say that some or all of these managers may have discredited themselves by being hopeless, or pushed way ahead of the pack by being brilliant. And someone else may come through, although unlikely.

I think the press are going a bit overboard on it, and the so called candidates talking about how they'd like the job is all a bit daft when it is so far off. I suppose we have to resign ourselves to two years of this speculation!
AYR.

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Replace rooney, gerrard and glen johnson.
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thomson

We're talking about the next England manager.
Not how we should play to not qualify for WC 2014…