Fabio Cappello

[TightEnd]

Even the greatest ring master cant work unless the animals have the ability to do what he wants them to do.

easy!

[boldie]

LMAO @ this appointment.

Capello plays boring footie...win at all costs is what he says....He is a boring man..and gets paid an absolute fortune.

Maybe you shouldn't have sacked Sven?

Rather us play dull footy and win, than dull footy and lose.

then why sack Sven?

The winning bit.

Really? QF (x2) and SF of the WC and EC is no disgrace...what do you expect (seriously) that Capello can do with this England side?..you really don't have that great a team

[kinboshi]

LMAO @ this appointment.

Capello plays boring footie...win at all costs is what he says....He is a boring man..and gets paid an absolute fortune.

Maybe you shouldn't have sacked Sven?

Rather us play dull footy and win, than dull footy and lose.

then why sack Sven?

The winning bit.

Really? QF (x2) and SF of the WC and EC is no disgrace...what do you expect (seriously) that Capello can do with this England side?..you really don't have that great a team

Scraping through qualifiers.  Inept tactical decisions.  Dull and ineffective football.  Matches drawn or won only through moments of brilliance or sheer luck.  Continuing to play players who are injured, or way below being match fit.  Insistence on playing players out of position.  Reluctance to bring in in-form players.  Ridiculous use of friendlies with 98130984758743258 substitutions. 

I can guarantee that Capello will be better than Sven and his ghost.

[steeveg]

its going to be hard for any future manager of england, first thing is to bring some confidence back into the team, theres a lot of top players playing brilliant for there clubs,as soon as they put an england shirt on they go to pieces, never mind formations and style we will never do anything till the players stop playing scared, capellos knows how to handle pressure,if he can pass this on to the england squad we could start playing like a team again, that could be the 1 quality he has since robson and venables

[ChipRich]

Capello's got the mentality of winning. He's won wherever hes been. Id love to see England play like Argentina/Brazil, great flare etc but thats not going to happen, we are not born with that special ability, we dont have a messi/kaka/riquelme.

So we have play like a team, which without the flare maybe boring but if we win and works, everyone will be saying how good a team we are.

On the Sven topic, he had a good record in big matches in tournaments, but the fans/press are never happy unless we win something....hopefully Capello can change that.

[kinboshi]

On the Sven topic, he had a good record in big matches in tournaments, but the fans/press are never happy unless we win something....hopefully Capello can change that.

We scraped through qualifying tournaments, and then stumbled our way to elimination in the big tournaments.  Again, he's pick the wrong team (players playing in strange positions, in strange formations, with injured players on the pitch and in-form players on the bench or not in the squad at all). 

[ChipRich]

I agree it was time for a change when Sven went, i just mean people need to give Capello a chance, then decide for themselves based on the results.

[boldie]

I just want to know one thing.

does he prefer cake or biscuits?

[TightEnd]

I just want to know one thing.

does he prefer cake or biscuits?

Pasta. With Cake.

[kinboshi]

...and how does he prefer his PAs?

[TightEnd]

...and how does he prefer his PAs?

Pasta. with Cake.

[The Baron]

A brilliant coup for the FA.

Arguably the most successful manager still managing today.

He's been hounded for advice at football manager conventions by some really good young managers like Benitez and Mourinho in recent years and often swapped notes with Lippi and Ferguson. Everyone in the game has spoken highly of him. Tony Adams has spoken about how highly Harry Redknapp rates him and how told him to talk to him as much as possible last summer. Benitez said similar things a few years back.

Definately the best choice available.  His playing style is tactically very astute, some would call it dull, it's very Arrigo Saachi-esque, ie "intensity of play" - breaking up the opponents play before playing themselves (like Mourinho and Benitez - both have called Saachi and Capello's style "nearly perfect") but it wins.

Also missed of Tighty's CV of him is the fact that he made 3 consecutive European Cup finals with Milan (admittedly losing two of them) - so he knows knock-out competition football pretty damn well too.

All in all - the best England could have hoped for.

[boldie]

Tony Adams has spoken about how highly Harry Redknapp rates him and how told him to talk to him as much as possible last summer.

All that means is that Redknapp once did a deal with him and got thrown a couple of £'s..

[The Baron]

Tony Adams has spoken about how highly Harry Redknapp rates him and how told him to talk to him as much as possible last summer.

All that means is that Redknapp once did a deal with him and got thrown a couple of £'s..

LOL! Judging by Cappello's alleged past you're probably right!

[steeveg]

I just want to know one thing.

does he prefer cake or biscuits?
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hope its cakes he can save himself a fortune in tax