Which of the past England managers would do the best with the current squad?

The ex players seem to talk very highly of Glen Hoddle. The impression seems to be that he was the most tactically fluid and innovative.
 
Theonas said:
The ex players seem to talk very highly of Glen Hoddle. The impression seems to be that he was the most tactically fluid and innovative.
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Bobby Robson at the WC's looked good, missing Euro 84 and bad group stage performance at Euro 88 probably didn't helped him, but with the current generation of players England has the team certainly would play good football, winning is always subjective in this tournaments.
 
Not sure but the underrating of what Southgate has accomplished is ridiculous. It looks easy but it really isn’t, as so many previous England managers have shown.
 
Venables and Hoddle had the tactical flexibility to accommodate attacking talent. Venables the ability to manage it.
 
fps said:
Not sure but the underrating of what Southgate has accomplished is ridiculous. It looks easy but it really isn’t, as so many previous England managers have shown.
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Exactly, he's done better than previous managers with worse squads.
 
It's a shame Hoddle was/is a nut job
By all accounts he was a brilliant tactician who the players loved playing for

Venebles was clearly someone with a great tactical understanding too but I also felt like he was susceptible to picking his favourites more often than not
 
El Tel, without a doubt.

Hoddle would have a chance provided he was gagged from talking to the media.

Robson would do well too.
 
Hoddle seemed the best tactically, such a shame he thought being disabled was a punishment from god for past sins.
 
Agree with most on here. Bobby Robson or El-Tel for me.
 
Terry (you can't practice penalties) Venables.
None of them.
They all let me down over the years.
 
Didn't they all have squads basically as good if not better than the current one anyway?
 
Hoddle had a very good side and didn't do anything. He had the likes of Shearer, Scholes, Beckham, Adams, Seaman, Cambell, Neville, Owen available to him. You'd struggle to say England have much superior options now. The only thing he didn't really have was a top class left back/wing back. Of course you might say he was unlucky in the manner England went out against Argentina in the RO16, but then England only ended up on that path having finished second in the group where they lost to Romania.

Then by the time he left he had England on a terrible start to Euro 2000 qualification also, losing to Sweden, and drawing to Bulgaria at home. England were very fortunate to qualify.
 
horsechoker said:
No England manager has a better win percentage
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Not to mention a better grasp on getting around rules on player transfers.

Terry Venables would probably be it. Glenn Hoddle could come close but some of the things that came out of his mouth would probably make half his squad riot never mind the general public.
 
I feel like his ex players talk up Hoddles reign so much because they loved him as a player as kids, dont remember him doing much at all with Wolves or Spurs after England
 
Robson seemed capable of getting a squad together that was more than the sum of its parts, so I'll nominate him
 
Didn’t Venables only play 5 actual competitive games in his time as manager? A draw against Swiss and 2 good wins over Scots and Holland.a dreadful 0-0 and penalty shootout win against Spain and then the usual heroic exit

id put Southgate as your best ever manager in my lifetime. (im mid 40’s) so above Robson too
 
Bobby Robson was the best in my lifetime.

Sam Allardyce had a 100% win rate too.
 
foolsgold said:
Hoddle seemed the best tactically, such a shame he thought being disabled was a punishment from god for past sins.
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Yeah deffo Hoddle. Think lots of ex England players have more or less said that too. He’s the last manager I remember having such a defined system and picking players based on that.
 
Sven-Göran Eriksson was the best manager England ever had. Extremely underrated.

It is not a coincidence that so many of his former players in Lazio became decent managers, and they all praise him to no end.

He would have won with this team.
 
LA BOMBA said:
Sven-Göran Eriksson was the best manager England ever had. Extremely underrated.

It is not a coincidence that so many of his former players in Lazio became decent managers, and they all praise him to no end.

He would have won with this team.
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He was a very good club manager but absolutely underachieved with Enlgland. And I would rank that 2002 side well above this one
 
Reditus said:
He was a very good club manager but absolutely underachieved with Enlgland. And I would rank that 2002 side well above this one
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How did he underachieve?

Lost to an all-time great Brazil team after a Seaman howler in 2002 in the most narrow game possible, then lost twice on penalties against a very strong Portugal that had better players than England.

There's no shame in losing to the teams that he lost, and in the way that he did. He simply wasn't lucky with the draw to get such strong teams as early in the competition.

The competition was simply much much stronger back when he was the mananger of England.

You can rate 2002 side as better than this, but then every national team at the time had a better national team than right now, and in most cases much better than current ones.
 
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