Foreign managers get big jobs in their own country which means they can build up their personal trophy cabinet.
And why do you think that is. Like when Hodgson took over at Liverpool. One of the highest rated, English manager, got a top job and he produced so much shit during his 6 month tenure that it threatened global climate.
English managers get small-medium jobs in England so they can't build up their personal trophy cabinet.
Then why not go to Scotland or Ireland, win the league 3 years in a row and come back to England with a winning mentality? No they'd rather sit tight collecting their severance pay from the last job they fucked up until they get their next one.
And that statement is utter bullshit. Foreign managers earn their stripes. Since I mentioned Lippi earlier and his undoubted credentials, he managed for 12 years before he went to Juventus where he won the league during his first season. Unless you count Pontedera, Pistoiese, Carrarese and Lucchese as anything other than small-medium jobs? Or what about their current manager Prandelli. He was at Atalanta, Lecce, Verona, Venezia before going to Parma and then taking a newly promoted Fiorentina to the CL in one season. Or Didi Deschamps? Took charge of Monaco, a relatively average side to the CL final. Then got Juve promoted immidiately and then went to Marseille where he won the league for Marseille for the first time in 18 years. Or a RAWK favourite, Rafa Benitez. He managed such Spanish powerhouses as Real Valladolid, Osasuna, Extramadura and Tenerife before he got his first big break at Valencia where he broke up the biggest powerhouses in football at the time Real Madrid and Barcelona by winning the league.
Now that's just a few clubs. Why hasn't any English manager does anything remotely similar since what the 90's?
People then compare the foreign manager's trophy cabinet to the English manager' trophy cabinet.
Because to be the best, you have to beat the best. Foreign managers do that, English managers don't. It's extremely simple.
For example people say "What has Harry ever won" and then go on to list all the trophies Capello has won.
I'd like to see Capello win the Champions League with West Ham...
I'd like to see anyone do that. As I said earlier in the thread about Capello's achievements with Roma.
You mean like when he won the Serie A with Roma, for only the 3rd time in the club's history and it's first title in 18 years? Where he obviously had the superior squad to everyone in the league.
It's not like Milan had players like Maldini, Costacurta, Shevchenko, Gattuso, Boban, Bierhoff et al or Juventus for that matter. They had terrible players like Ferrara, Conte, Pippo Inzhagi, Del Piero, Trezeguet, Zidane, Tacchinardi, Edgar Davids, Zambrotta, Van der Saar. Who can forget the steaming pile of shit that Inter served up. Cordoba, Zanetti, Blanc, Seedorf, Recoba, Vieri, Sükür and that fatty Ronaldo I mean what's he ever done? Lazio were lucky to get 3rd serving up second tier players like Lopez, Salas, Crespo, Nesta, Mihajlovic, Simone, Nedved, Stankovic, Veron and Ravanelli.
I mean fucking Bolton would've walked the league with abysmal squads like that as "competition". 'Arry would never have lost 3 games that season scoring only 2 goals on average per game whilst averaging less than 1 conceded. How anyone can suggest Capello is a half-decent manager after a season like that has to be clinically insane!
That season or that "era" for that matter was one of the strongest in Serie A history and with the quality of players that the oppositions had winning the league was a great achievement, espescially since Juve were expected to walk the league without breaking a sweat.
