Who Should Be The Next England Manager?
Gareth Southgate's time as England Head Coach.... and question is, with some of the best players in the world at their disposal, who should be the man to replace him??
Transcript
00:00I don't know who is going to be the next England manager but I'll tell you who should be the
00:26next England manager.
00:27You're going to hear a lot of sensible shouts over the course of this video but allow me
00:31to pop a jaunty little bonnet on that.
00:33I think the Vibes answer is Gary O'Neill.
00:39Gary O'Neill is the perfect choice for the next England manager because, not just because
00:45he's a good manager in general, I think he's proving that at Wolves this season given the
00:48sort of disquiet and discord he went into the club with, but everybody wants a system
00:55manager.
00:56Everybody wants some kind of tactics nerd who's got ideas and may have achieved things
01:00over the course of their career and may be classically considered good, right?
01:03But that's boring.
01:04Gareth Southgate was a system manager and all people ever did was complain that he was picking
01:08players to have a system.
01:09Oh, he's got his favourites, why is Henderson and Maguire in there?
01:12Because he's a system manager.
01:14Eddie Howell will do the same thing, Potter will do the same thing, anybody else you care
01:17to mention will probably do the same thing, but Gary O'Neill is pure Vibes.
01:21Gary O'Neill doesn't know any tactics, Gary O'Neill hasn't got a clue about any of that.
01:25Look at what's happened to Bournemouth, they got rid of Gary O'Neill and they got some
01:30nerd in who was supposed to transform them and look what's happened.
01:34Meanwhile Gary O'Neill, Gary O'Neill is mopping up crime with a brush and then batting away
01:39disorder with his hand at Wolves and they're flying up the table.
01:42Is he not just good at not losing games because he's managed relegation for Endzides?
01:49Would he not be the same as Southgate in the sense that he doesn't go for it?
01:52No.
01:54I can't say enough about Gary O'Neill's pure vibes, he would literally pick a different
01:57squad every single international break just because he fancied, oh they've had a good run.
02:02Gary O'Neill is basically playing FPL, every single week he turns up with the Premier League,
02:05he just does whatever he wants, I think he would be so much fun and I think he would
02:10show England fans as well that it can be different and you can just have a little bit more chaos
02:16in your international side and I just think he'd win the World Cup.
02:22I'm just saying Gary O'Neill, I don't think international football is ready for the sort
02:27of fun Gary O'Neill would bring to that level of football.
02:31Adam, how are you doing?
02:33I'm not too bad.
02:34Who should be the next England manager?
02:37Arsene Wenger.
02:38What?
02:44Arsene Wenger, because I think he's got one more in him.
02:52I think he's 73 now and I'm looking at Roy Hodgson and obviously he is sort of, how can
02:57I say this politely, he's decaying maybe, but Arsene Wenger isn't yet.
03:04Arsene Wenger isn't and he's still, you know, you see him on BM Sports and he's enriched
03:08with knowledge really and I think it's got to the point now with Southgate where I think
03:13the players respect him but there's not enough legacy behind him where the players are sort
03:19of in awe of the presence in the dressing room and they have that instilled confidence
03:22because of the man in front of them that they can go on the pitch and deliver and take the
03:25game to someone and beat them and we know Arsene Wenger has astute tactical knowledge
03:29and has developed the game for many, many years and I think he's a student of the game
03:33even at the age he is now and I think he will impose a style of play particularly with the
03:36players England have now in their team at their disposal, Saka, Foden, Bellingham, Kane.
03:42He could play some absolutely picture perfect football and get silverware with it as well.
03:48That's annoyingly a much better answer than mine.
03:50Yeah, well, it's Arsene Wenger, not Gary O'Neill, that's why.
03:53Oh, Arsene Wenger!
03:55Oh God, yeah, there we go, Arsene Wenger, I would say Arsene Wenger.
04:00Oh God, top four.
04:02Yeah, that's all that matters.
04:05I suppose Southgate's done it but yeah, Arsene Wenger, final answer.
04:09Bob, one day Gareth Southgate's not going to be here.
04:13It's not like a health way or anything, but when he goes for the England job,
04:18who would you have replacing him?
04:21The special one himself, the Highlander of doom, Jose Mourinho.
04:25We are off our heads in this video, this is absolutely mad.
04:29Mourinho?
04:31Yeah, I prefer not to speak.
04:34If I speak, I'm in big, big trouble.
04:37I'm a terrible imitator, you're going to have to.
04:39Imagine the look on Luke Shaw's face when it turns out to be Mourinho.
04:44It's going to be, it just seems like the natural progression.
04:47I mean, Mourinho is now coming to the end of his Roma tenure.
04:50Was it like three years he has in every job?
04:52So he'll be coming to the end when Southgate's coming to the end.
04:58And this is Mourinho, he tends to come back to England, he gravitates back here.
05:02He doesn't take easy jobs, Mourinho.
05:04He doesn't take jobs in which he's particularly liked or respected.
05:09Successful.
05:11But it does seem as well like England tend to go back and forth between polar opposites
05:19and it does feel like we're due a Mourinho.
05:22We've had the nice guy and now we're due the absolute beast on the touchline again.
05:27This is all from it.
05:28They go from one extreme to the other.
05:30They go from Sven-Jan Eriksson to Steve McLaren to Fabio Capello to Roy Hodgson
05:36to whatever Sam Alabase was for a game to Southgate.
05:41It seems like...
05:42There is a real sort of shagga to non-shagga.
05:44It's a shagga to non-shagga ratio.
05:47I believe they also do it when they cast a new Doctor Who.
05:49So I think it's a well-known formula.
05:54But yeah, I mean, I wouldn't everybody love to see Jose Mourinho managing England.
05:59Running down the touchline, going three, three, three, for like three lions.
06:05Three lions.
06:06This is football heritage.
06:11Right, Ryan.
06:12Yes.
06:13England manager after Gary Southgate should be...
06:17Graham Potter.
06:18Graham Potter!
06:19That's the most sensible answer anyone could give.
06:21I'm not going to say some guy that's not managed in six years or Jose Mourinho.
06:25We're not in 2006, guys.
06:27Graham Potter is a good manager.
06:29He's clearly waiting for the right role to come along.
06:32He's been offered, I think, Napoli job, Marseille job.
06:35He's clearly waiting.
06:36He wants a Premier League job.
06:37But if nothing really takes his fancy,
06:40the England job will be there in ten months' time, however long it is.
06:44I think he's the right candidate.
06:47He didn't do too well at Chelsea, but he laid the foundations for De Zerby's Brighton.
06:53He knows how to work with good players, talented players and make them better.
06:57And I think the England team will thrive off of his managerial...
07:02Right, so what I will say is, if I wasn't going pure vibes with O'Neill,
07:06Potter would have been my shout.
07:07But consider this, is Potter not the worst possible England manager?
07:11Because he's so structurally based.
07:15He will just pick the most random, average players,
07:18make a great team out of them and have to leave out so many,
07:20like, quote, unquote, big stars.
07:22But that's what you need to do, I think, to win football matches.
07:25We as a country, we're going to sit...
07:26Oh, 100%, but I think Potter will do that and I think he won't care.
07:29I think he learned a lot, I think, during his time at Chelsea.
07:33What did he learn at Chelsea?
07:34Not to work with owners who spend a billion pounds,
07:37but... and then potentially get a deduction of points.
07:41But I know that's not related, but anyway...
07:42He had a famous vote for him, wasn't he?
07:44Yes.
07:46I just think that he will not care about what people are saying about him
07:49and he'll put the right team out that wins games of football.
07:52And like Southgate does at the moment, sort of just picks his preferred players.
07:57Might not necessarily everyone agree with it, but I think it's the right decision.
08:01I personally would love to see that.