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Yeah, can't see at all unless they want him out at a cut price.

Sad thing is fans are starting to buy into this shite about the club being badly run, making loads of mistakes, not backing Howe etc etc. Latest True Faith podcast is absolutely rife with it. Guess it makes people sound intelligent if they are constantly critical and passing judgement, but it has little to do with reality.

Don't even bother picking up the phone ladz.

Not playing this year, ruins the Prem.

Don’t think even he would claim his plan was to maximise the attacking numbers. His plan was to grind and hope someone would win us the trophy.

Hasn’t even been England's best player. Maybe not many other fullbacks I guess.

You think he should’ve quit just before the euros?

It's very easy to forget how dire it was to manage and support England before Southgate came in. Success was not being rubbish from what I remember. I think there's a good chance the FA don't care enough about winning a trophy to risk getting back into the market for big-name managers and they just appoint from within instead.

Isn't he a workaholic though? Would be quite a character change to go for a part time job where he can't develop players or see them every day.

I'm bored of pointing out that international management isn't for top-tier coaches who have successful club careers.

Exactly, he's an English manager who is good so he's going to be 'linked' (whatever the fuck that means) but logically he has just started the project of his life here and there's very little chance he's going to walk out on that just before a new season.

Nothing has changed FFS, we knew Southgate was going to resign

No, stop.

Looks pretty terrible with things like the spacing and size of the sponsor and the connection of the stripes etc over the shoulders. Maybe just the photo.

I don't mind the idea but he can't be the only signing for RW and CF.

Klopp seems the ideal man to me.

He's probably absolutely fine, it's not like he was expected to start every game.

Lineker mentioned it on Rest is Football.

Maybe he just already had too much of a problem thinking about how to accommodate Foden and Bellingham, he couldn’t fathom Gordon as well.

No duty should make you leave a top PL job, that's silly.

Eh?

Yeah, don't have any doubt he'll leave. But I don't necessarily think a new manager will do any better. Maybe in terms of style, but almost certainly not in terms of progress through tournaments.

Exactly, if Guardiola wasn't favourite for the Spain job then I don't see why Howe would be favourite for the England job. Both are top managers doing a great job a their clubs and therefore won't be considering moving into international management.

There's no chance.

Bellingham, Kane, Foden just doesn't work as an attack and never was going to in a team that doesn't play possession. Thought all three had poor tournaments overall. Either Kane had to play with two of Saka/Gordon/Palmer or Watkins should have got the nod to at least stretch the play a bit. Also the CM is very limited, Mainoo is in the team too early and Rice was also very sloppy in a lot of games. Feel Guehi is decent but often tentative and loses out in some key moments. Taking Shaw was insane although I assume he suffered a setback and was expected to be available earlier. Too many of the poor performers were locked in because it's too brave a move to take them off or move them. Like today, Rice was pretty awful but Mainoo gets the hook. Wharton should come on to help us control the game, but Rice is untouchable. IMO the obvious answer was to ask Bellingham to play a deeper role for the team, with Foden ahead, but that doesn't happen because of the big season he's had. I think Southgate has done a good job overall, and has rehabilitated the England 'brand' very well. He should move on now but I think one danger is that we compare the reality to the best possible alternative we can imagine. Maybe the quality of the squad outgrew the Southgate approach, but it remains to be seen if a different manager can get them playing better. It's very possible that we replace Southgate, play better but the actual results (in terms of progressing in tournaments) are worse.