This comment has been made a gazillion times yet nothing has changed since Capello or Eriksson no? Your typical English former-professional-turned-coach is still not the brightest bulb.
1) Higher participation: England's FA needs to subsidise Uefa licence courses because it's cheaper to do the badges in Spain, Portugal, Germany, Italy. They produce more coaches overall and the more coaches get trained the higher the overall standard of coaching at youth, recreational, or lower league level. More competition means the cream of the crop among a few thousand coaches will be standouts in tactics.
2) Higher performance standards: Encourage football players to complete A Levels and go back to university after retirement. Hand out Uefa coaching scholarships with degree placements to youth players or professionals who retire early due to injuries and want to coach. Make it necessary for English coaches to have a degree because that is the difference between Klopp or Tuchel and your Lampards and Rooneys. Why shouldn't footballers be required to have basic bachelor's qualifications to be fit for a multimillion pound top job?
Ironically the key problem in the country that invented football that doesn't affect continental Europe is that UK is extremely classist and football is a working class sport that isn't popular among the more educated "public" (private) school attendees. The kids who take football seriously fron childhood are mostly blue collar, immigrants, or mixed/minorities who see it as a ticket out of poverty and it's obvious that once blue collar footballers get rich they send their kids to public schools hoping to raise their social status so their kids mix with wealthier offspring. There is a class issue within English football where being overeducated is deemed as negative because the players generally hail from backgrounds that don't prize higher education (Rooney's "Just Enough Education to Perform" tattoo) whereas finishing your Abitur is viewed positively in German football since it means the player has the intention of applying to university during or after his football career. Havertz, Kimmich, Mertesacker, Goretzka and a lot of top German youth players are praised for juggling the Abitur with playing Bundesliga or CL as teenagers, it's not impossible.
Again in Europe there is less of class divide in football thus it's more common for smart kids or 2nd or 3rd generation players to see a football career as a source of pride e.g. Haaland, Schmeichel, Maldini; whereas in England footballers' offspring may view themselves as too different class-wise to the typical youth academy player so they'd rather mix with those who play golf, tennis, polo. All this means that the best and brightest minds in UK aren't going to choose a football career and the mostly blue collar kids who choose football are encouraged to quit school at 16 to turn pro, then switch to coaching post-retirement without even doing their A Levels. Thus the standard of coaching in UK inevitably suffers as a result since many of these ex-pros like Rooney probably find statistics and data analysis to be a mystery unlike Tuchel who has a business administration degree. This is a societal and classist issue the UK is unwilling to discuss at length, however.
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