During the press conference at England’s training base in Chantilly the day after Hodgson resigned, Glenn spoke of the “brittle” mentality of English players and he expanded on this to suggest that the FA should employ a full-time sports psychologist to work with the players.
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Hoddle did a fine job with England in guiding them to the 1998 World Cup, but has not been in management since a spell with Wolves ten years ago.
“The bottom line is; if they come and want to talk, I’ll talk”. Maybe we should just assemble a collection of amusing memes to manage England.
Daniel Taylor wrote while England players had no issues, there were problems behind the scenes with Hodgson and members of his coaching staff.
And FA Chief Executive Martin Glenn accepts that they will have to offer competitive terms if they are to recruit the right man.
“I know a little bit about what Joachim Low gets”. “There’s other things in there that we don’t have in ours”. So when you look at the total package it’s a little bit different.
“We need to be in the zone of what the world champions are paying and, competitively, how to make it attractive to someone”.
The FC guys discuss the rumours that Gareth Southgate is set to become interim manager of England, with Arsene Wenger tipped to take over on a permanent basis.
He is not prepared to go to the kind of £8m figure that Jose Mourinho will command at Manchester United, where he will be presented on Tuesday, but insisted: “We are going into the market and you’ve got to pay a market attractive rate, but no one wants to be naïve”.
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To that effect, the FA is not restricting its search, especially when it has already been reported that senior players actively want a foreign appointment, believing the English candidates to be underwhelming.
