Next Permanent England Manager?

[GaNgStA kEeKs]

Top manager without a shadow of a doubt. If given the choice of any manager in the world then i don't think there would be too many better than Capello.

What i find bizarre and i didn't know until today was that Cappello only has a tiny vocabulary of English so thats pretty weird IMO.

Nice bet all the same. Betfair have him huge favourite @ 1.03. So looks pretty certain

[all_funkt_up]

I agree that language could be a barrier. But, he has 9 months til his first proper game in charge. That's time enough for an intelligent bloke to learn the lingo to a sufficient level. In the mean time, an Italian/English speaking assistant like Poyet at Spurs for example, can bridge the gap. I'd have the right man for the job, with or without the ability to speak English, over some loser like McLaren whose only asset is being able to speak the lingo.

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International - FA approve Capello appointment

Eurosport - Thu, 13 Dec 18:57:00 2007

The FA board have approved the impending appointment of Fabio Capello as England boss with only the signing of the contracts remaining.
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• Capello: England have "mental block"

"Discussions have continued throughout the day between The FA and Fabio Capello's advisors," FA Director of Communications Adrian Bevington said. "The FA Board has also today approved Capello's appointment as England Manager subject to the successful conclusion of these contract negotiations. These will continue tomorrow.
"I want to stress that there are no problems and that we are going through the necessary process to reach a successful conclusion.
"Understandably, at this time, we are unable to confirm any media activity that may take place. We will provide an update tomorrow."

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Fabio Capello, whose provisional appointment as England manager has been approved by the FA, has said that there is a "mental block" in the England squad.
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The Italian tactician feels that the players are weighed down by playing for their country.
Capello is determined to get to the bottom of the quandary of how a country like England can continually underachieve on the international stage.
Capello worked with both David Beckham and Michael Owen at Real Madrid and says that he never saw a repeat of their displays for him with England.
"There is tremendous difference in the attitude they show from one game to the next," he told The Sun.
"How can players of the level of Beckham or Owen have performances so different when they play for their national team? It's clear the shirt is very heavy, even for those great champions.
"The manager has a fundamental role to play in this situation. He has to be more of a psychologist than a tactician or a technician.
"It is clear that there is a mental block; otherwise how can you explain their elimination from Euro 2008?"
Capello also talked about England's failure to qualify for that tournament, which cost McClaren his job.
"We managers ask ourselves: how can England, with the players they have, not qualify for the 2008 European Championships?" he added.
"The English team, much like the Spanish team, wins very little despite having some very good players.
"I've watched some of the games of the English.
"In the match against Russia in Moscow they played defensively. They sat right outside their own 18-yard box for 90 minutes despite having the advantage after taking a 1-0 lead in the first half.
"Against Croatia at Wembley they were all playing up front. They lost 2-3 when a draw at home would have been enough for them to qualify."

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What to expect: 10 things you need to know about Capello

All the most pertinent facts about the no-nonsense Italian art collector who is tipped for the England job


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.

Guardian Unlimited: Sport blog: What to expect: 10 things you need to know about Capello

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BBC SPORT | Football | Internationals | Capello named new England manager

Capello named new England manager

Capello will bring four Italian assistants with him Fabio Capello has been confirmed as the new England manager after the details of his contract were finalised with the Football Association. The Italian signed a four-and-a-half year deal - reportedly worth £6m a year, with an opt out after 2010. Capello, 61, will be unveiled at a news conference at 1300 GMT on Monday before taking up the role on 7 January. His backroom staff is all-Italian but he is to consider how to integrate an English presence into the set-up. Statement: FA's Adrian Bevington Interview: BBC pundit Alan Hansen Archive: Capello's goal against England at Wembley "Fabio is very, very open and happy to include an English coach - or English coaches - within his staff," said FA director of communications Adrian Bevington. 606: DEBATE The FA has been criticised heavily in the past - but this time credit is due for a brilliant appointment BBC Sport's Phil McNulty "The key point is that that is something we don't have to rush into. People should not get too hung up on the fact there is no English coach on the staff at the moment." England Under-21 coach Stuart Pearce was among those seen arriving at the FA's headquarters in Soho Square, London, on Friday. Alan Shearer, Tony Adams and David Platt have also been linked with a role in Capello's team

[Beanie]

Originally Posted by Beanie

5pts O'Neill @ 5.00(BlueSq)
4pts Capello@ 8.00(Paddy Power)

VROOM! Nice one son - and congrats to all other Speccy 4 eyes backers

[kompressaur]

good stuff Beanie. I was gonna start a new thread or the next England mamager but witht hat pissy other one ill just post here-

from earlier today-

With Fabio Capello all but certain to become the next permanent England manager, William Hill have opened a book on who will succeed him in the position whenever he departs.

They have installed Alan Shearer as 7/1 favourite ahead of Jose Mourinho and Martin O'Neill on the 15/2 mark.

And they've also opened a book on what Capello will do first when he becomes England manager.

It's 15/8 that it will be to win an away match, 7/2 to start a match with David Beckham as captain, 4/1 to start a match with Robert Green in goal, 9/2 to leave a fit Frank Lampard out of the starting XI, 6/1 appoint Alan Shearer as England assistant manager, 9/1 to name three or more previously uncapped players in an England squad, 10/1 lose at Wembley, 12/1 leave Paul Robinson out of his first England squad (only these eventualities count for the purposes of this bet).

and a bit later-

1900: William Hill were celebrating the appointment of Fabio Capello as England manager - because it saved them from a six figure payout to punters who had backed Jose Mourinho to get the job.

"It is very rare for a bookmaker to make a profit on the appointment of a high profile football manager as inevitably some people have inside information to which we are not privy - but on this occasion we have managed to clean up because all the apprently well-informed punters lost their cash by lumping it on Jose Mourinho!" said William Hill spokesman Graham Sharpe.

Capello was a 16/1 outsider when betting began but his odds dropped rapidly until he was eventually 2/9 favourite when the book closed.

"The heftiest bet we took on Capello was £250 at 11/1 from a client in Chelsea, who will get back £3000 as a result," added Sharpe. "We took almost £100,000 in total and would have paid out double that had Mourinho got the job. As it is we have made a small five figure profit."

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