Had a conversation with someone about our next manager when Struber left - they said it had to an English manager as they know the English game better ... right ...last English coach to win top division? Howard Wilkinson !
There haven't been many decent English ones. Before that Howard Kendall and Brian Clough, Mercer, Saunders, Mee and Nicholson.
The Wednesday fans keep banging that drum on radio Sheffield. They need an experienced British manager. Their last 3 managers, have managed a combined total of 2388 games. They had an average win percentage of 26.3% at Wednesday. But what they need is MORE experience apparently.
Difficult to argue with facts, but would say, in the history of PL the consistently successful clubs have been, United, Arsenal, Chelsea and more recently Liverpool & City, from memory only Lampard and Hodgson have been English.
Well, more experienced than him it seems. 1100+ games as a manager, mainly in the top 2 divisions, isn't enough experience.
Slavin Bilic would still.have been bottom 3. Shaun Dyche is the longest serving premier manager and has had no money to spend and is out of the bottom 3. Dean Smith isnt doing too bad.
It’s a tough comparison though because being the manager of say Burnley, blunts, Fulham, etc is very different to managing a club like Man City, Liverpool, etc. English managers, no matter how good, never get a chance at the top clubs bar Lampard recently. It’d be interesting to see how the managers would get on if they swapped. Would Pep Guardiola really do any better if he was Burnley manager? If Dyche was at City could he also win things.
Smith doing OK and as far as I can tell the only English gaffer outside the bottom 7. Rodgers and Moyes the othe Brits'.
That's who should manage Wednesday, all 3 of them. Still won't be enough experience to save them from the drop though
But Scotland have/ always appear to churn out decent managers, especially when you compare size of country and comparing league for league standards.
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