Mauricio Pochettino 'open' to replacing Gareth Southgate as England boss after World Cup

[mawspurs]

Mauricio Pochettino insists he would be open to managing England one day. The former Tottenham and Paris Saint-Germain boss has also revealed his admiration for the Three Lions ahead of the World Cup in Qatar.

Source: Daily Express

 

[whitechina]

International team manager doesn't seem to be a good fit for him. he'll see players for a few weeks every couple of months whereas everything we've heard he likes to have day to day interaction etc.
Time will tell I suppose

 

[A Bit Much]

Appreciating the point above about poch enjoying time on the training field, but he would however be a good england manager for promoting youth and good football. I'd love for him to manage the national side if that's what he wants.

 

[Yid121]

Would love him for England if not Spurs again at some point, certainly 10x better than southgate

 

[Roberts84]

Appreciating the point above about poch enjoying time on the training field, but he would however be a good england manager for promoting youth and good football. I'd love for him to manage the national side if that's what he wants.

I disagree. Poch only blooded in youngsters in his first season when he was trying to oust senior players. After the first season, his record wasn’t that great. Southgate on the other hand has probably been the best England coach ever to play youngsters. However, I don’t think him nor his team have the tactical knowledge to make the best of probably the best set of youngsters in world football atm.

 

[fridgemagnet]

I'd be interested in how Poch would go about things, I certainly think it'd be more attack minded but perhaps you have to then accept the risk of possibly no longer going as deep in tournaments and maybe it being the stick used to beat him with if he doesn't go further than Southgate in comps.

That said I remember back when HR was with us everyone saying that Redknapp would have been ideal to get the best out of that group of England players and I'd have agreed; then I saw him put up his England squad/formation for whatever tournament was upcoming and he'd done as every other England coach prior and shoehorned in Lampard and Gerrard together. That was it for me credibility gone!

Ultimately I'd hate for Poch to take the role and bomb though.

 

[EastUpperDK82]

Welcome to Circus Boehly ... it just keeps giving... and Poch should have known better.

 

[homesweetlane]

What's going on? They finished the season so strongly

 

[McFlash]

I disagree. Poch only blooded in youngsters in his first season when he was trying to oust senior players. After the first season, his record wasn’t that great. Southgate on the other hand has probably been the best England coach ever to play youngsters. However, I don’t think him nor his team have the tactical knowledge to make the best of probably the best set of youngsters in world football atm.

I think Southgate was but that was because he'd come up from the U21 position and new that group of players.
Once he promoted the players he already knew, he went back to the tried and trusted names and completely stopped promoting youngsters unless he had no choice.
I'm going to use Slabhead and "Hendo" as exhibit A, along with a too long reliance on Sterling and Rashford, even when their club form was rubbish.

 

[McFlash]

What's going on? They finished the season so strongly

It's just Poch being Poch.
Sometimes he doesn't know when to shut up.

 

[Gassin's finest]

He might be a good fit for International football. It's less about developing individuals and building a collective instead. No barriers on finances or selection etc. One thing Poch engenders is that team spirit and trust that makes you want to run through walls for him, the sort of bollocks that got us all the way through that impossible CL campaign to Madrid.