Guest Alan Shearer 9 Posted December 13, 2007 Share Posted December 13, 2007 Fascism is in vogue Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest nufc_geordie Posted December 13, 2007 Share Posted December 13, 2007 Just been announced on BBC that after an FA board meeting this afternoon Capello will be announced as new England gaffer. Personally would have preferred Harry Redknapp and an all English approach. Capello strikes me as another Sven appointment but only time will tell! Capello to become England manager Fabio Capello will be appointed as the next manager of England later on Thursday, BBC Sport can reveal. BBC sports editor Mihir Bose says the 61-year-old Italian has been offered a four-year deal worth £4m a year. The former AC Milan coach's appointment will be ratified by the Football Association following a conference call involving board members at lunchtime. Capello, who has also coached Juventus, Roma and Real Madrid succeeds Steve McClaren, who was sacked in November. Former Chelsea boss Jose Mourinho was the initial favourite to take over, but he ruled himself out of the running and the FA quickly turned its attentions to Capello. The Italian expressed his interest in the job just days after McClaren's departure. He eventually met for discussions with FA chief executive Brian Barwick and director of football Sir Trevor Brooking in London on Wednesday. Those talks were described as "extremely positive" by FA director of communications Adrian Bevington. McClaren paid the price for England's failure to reach next year's European Championships. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
BONTEMPI Posted December 13, 2007 Share Posted December 13, 2007 Quite happy tbh! He certainly won't be blinkered by playing the clique men game in and game out, he'll wan't the players in form at the time. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
ross magoo Posted December 13, 2007 Share Posted December 13, 2007 If the FA had appointed Harry Redknapp ahead of Fabio Capello then they would have deserved to never ever qualify for another major tournament ever again ever. Redknapp has achieved nothing. He wouldn't be able to bribe agents into persuading players to play for England either. Capello is a class act. The two shouldn't even be mentioned in the same breath. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest nufc_geordie Posted December 13, 2007 Share Posted December 13, 2007 That's your opinion mate. Mine is that the England job should be kept in house. I will not stop supporting England because of his appointment, he will get my backing now, but all i'm saying is that it is not the way I would have went. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dave Posted December 13, 2007 Share Posted December 13, 2007 Delighted tbh. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
ross magoo Posted December 13, 2007 Share Posted December 13, 2007 That's your opinion mate. Mine is that the England job should be kept in house. I will not stop supporting England because of his appointment, he will get my backing now, but all i'm saying is that it is not the way I would have went. That's fair enough but I just don't think principles are a luxury that England can afford right now, especially seeing as they've already had a foreign manager. Personally, I think the whole McLaren carry on proves that a manager should be appointed based on his ability as a manager rather than his nationality. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
BONTEMPI Posted December 13, 2007 Share Posted December 13, 2007 That's your opinion mate. Mine is that the England job should be kept in house. I will not stop supporting England because of his appointment, he will get my backing now, but all i'm saying is that it is not the way I would have went. God I would have hated Harry 'Crimewatch' Redknapp taking charge, could you imagine his interviews after the match. Well Lampsy and JT and Becksy all did gweat for me yea! Lets av a knees up down the queen vic! FUCKING ANNOYING NONSE Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Decky Posted December 13, 2007 Share Posted December 13, 2007 How people can complain about getting a brilliant manager like Capello is beyond me, id give anything to have a manager of that quality at Ireland. PS: how many people wish we could have had this thread title for NUFC in the past Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
midds Posted December 13, 2007 Share Posted December 13, 2007 It'll be interesting to see how the hacks treat him. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dave Posted December 13, 2007 Share Posted December 13, 2007 £4m a year. Still don't learn do they? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thespence Posted December 13, 2007 Share Posted December 13, 2007 author=nufc_geordie link=topic=47056.msg1105712#msg1105712 date=1197538584] I will not stop supporting England because of his appointment, he will get my backing now I am sure FC will be encouraged now he has your backing. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Optimistic Nut Posted December 13, 2007 Share Posted December 13, 2007 Good news for the Owen cynics out there as well. No way will Capello keep picking him if he continues to deliberately get himself injured for club games between the international breaks... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Decky Posted December 13, 2007 Share Posted December 13, 2007 Good news for the Owen cynics out there as well. No way will Capello keep picking him if he continues to deliberately get himself injured for club games between the international breaks... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
BlueStar Posted December 13, 2007 Share Posted December 13, 2007 Personally would have preferred Harry Redknapp and an all English approach. Capello strikes me as another Sven appointment And Redknapp would have struck me as another McClaren appointment Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Guinness Posted December 13, 2007 Share Posted December 13, 2007 Very pleased with Capello, hopefully he'll continue his winning trend. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tooj Posted December 13, 2007 Share Posted December 13, 2007 http://football.guardian.co.uk/News_Story/0,,2226020,00.html 1 He is a winner Wherever he has gone as a manager Fabio Capello has won trophies. Through 16 seasons at Milan, Real Madrid, Roma and Juventus he has accrued nine domestic titles - albeit that the 2004-05 and 2005-06 Scudettos he won with Juventus have since been revoked in the fallout from the Calciopoli match-fixing scandal - and a Champions League. That said, his record in knockout competition is not great. Aside from that 1994 European Cup triumph with Milan his only cup wins have come in that year's Uefa Super Cup and the Italian Super Cup (equivalent to the Community Shield). 2 He does not take friendlies lightly Do not expect to see Capello sending on Franny Jeffers the next time Australia come to town. During Milan's money-spinning tour of China at the end of the 1996 season he deployed a three-striker formation in a friendly against a China XI, but then pulled Paolo Di Canio for a midfielder at half-time to protect a 1-0 lead. When Di Canio asked why he cared so much about the result of a friendly, Capello shot back with a barrage of expletives and added: "Your face looks like a penis." Di Canio never played for Milan again. 3 He knows how to win at Wembley Back in his less feted playing days, Capello was a rather handy midfielder, winning the Italian title three times with Juventus and once with Milan. His own personal highlight, however, came against England at Wembley on November 14 1973, during one of 32 appearances for Italy. "The best moment of my career," he says of the 85th-minute strike with which he secured a 1-0 victory for Italy, their first ever away win against England. 4 Before he was a manager he was ... a manager When his playing career came to an end, Capello did not slide seamlessly into the first vacant Serie A hotseat. In fact, although he began working with Milan's youth team almost immediately and was given a six-game stint at the end of the 1986-87 season, he landed the Rossoneri job long-term only in 1991 - having retired from playing in 1980 - after he had impressed Silvio Berlusconi with his work in a series of managerial roles for the Fininvest business empire. 5 He is a bit of an art buff "In my house there are no pictures of me with trophies or cups," Capello has said. "Those sorts of things are closed away inside boxes." Easy to say when you have a £10m private art collection. 6 He is not as boring as some people think The former Italy manager Arrigo Sacchi once said, "for Capello, football is all about winning. He does not see beauty in the game", but though many Real Madrid fans might agree, Capello is no committed dullard. It was he who brought Gabriel Batistuta to Roma and adjusted his favoured 4-4-2 into a 3-4-1-2 to ensure Batistuta, Francesco Totti and Vincenzo Montella could play together - even if not in every game. Much like Jose Mourinho, Capello sees winning as the first priority, but is not adverse to doing so attractively. 7 He will not bow to the big names There's only ever been room for one ego in Capello's squads, and that's his. A man who has dropped and fallen out with Totti, Alessandro Del Piero and Edgar Davids is hardly likely to be lose his nerve at the prospect of a Gary Neville-led uprising. Sick of perceived laziness from Ronaldo at Real Madrid he resorted to asking him "Aren't you ashamed of being so fat?" in front of his team-mates as he left the showers. The striker was sold to Milan the next month. 8 You might not want to boo him Capello's temper is notorious. "People say I'm impatient when it comes to football and they're right," said a man who has made abusive gestures at fans more than once, most recently in Real Madrid's 1-0 win over Real Zaragoza in January. "Why should I waste my time listening to people who are clearly less intelligent than me?" 9 He does not dwell on his mistakes Capello may have backed down last season on his claim that David Beckham would never play for Real Madrid again but he's not generally one for excessive reflection. "I never watch matches I played in or coached," he has claimed. "I only look ahead." 10 His image rights are probably worth more than Steve Bruce's Those natty specs don't just look good - they're a tidy little earner for Capello, who is sponsored by Zeroh+. According to the Zeroh+ website, they "match the style and infinite attention to detail plus the drive and sporting vitality that epitomises him in every aspect of his life". Right. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Parky Posted December 13, 2007 Share Posted December 13, 2007 Has what it takes to be one of the best England managers. Will put that shower of shit back on track. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
ChezGiven Posted December 13, 2007 Share Posted December 13, 2007 "Why should I waste my time listening to people who are clearly less intelligent than me?" Hopefully that means he wont pay any attention to the media then. He'll love our hooligan element too. Who could argue with the man's appointment though, he clearly wants the job and his record is phenomenal. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
AyeDubbleYoo Posted December 13, 2007 Share Posted December 13, 2007 Looking forward to some more of those quotations in future, classics. Should be some good times ahead, interesting to see who he picks... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest alex Posted December 13, 2007 Share Posted December 13, 2007 Fascism is in vogue Don't just stand there, let's get to it, strike a pose, there's nothing to it: http://www.old-picture.com/american-history-1900-1930s/pictures/Mussolini.jpg Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dr Venkman Posted December 13, 2007 Share Posted December 13, 2007 happy with that like, couldnt have asked for much better Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tooj Posted December 13, 2007 Share Posted December 13, 2007 Fascism is in vogue Don't just stand there, let's get to it, strike a pose, there's nothing to it: http://www.old-picture.com/american-history-1900-1930s/pictures/Mussolini.jpg Can't wait for Alex's IT Guys at work to do an audit trail on him, first word that comes up, "fascism." Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Gemmill Posted December 13, 2007 Share Posted December 13, 2007 Personally would have preferred Harry Redknapp and an all English approach. Are you one of those people that writes letters to the Sunday Sun and texts in to the Chronicle? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Parky Posted December 13, 2007 Share Posted December 13, 2007 Personally would have preferred Harry Redknapp and an all English approach. Are you one of those people that writes letters to the Sunday Sun and texts in to the Chronicle? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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