England looking for a new manager after Gareth Southgate stepped down from the role Jurgen Klopp Pep Guardiola JURGEN Klopp and Pep Guardiola are being linked with the England manager's job following Gareth Southgate's exit, but I can't see either of them taking it on. There is no doubt in my mind that Klopp or Guardiola would get more out of that talented England squad than we saw from them over the course of Euro 2024. England did better than I expected in Germany, rode their luck all the way to the final and had a chance to push for a win when the excellent Cole Palmer got them back into the game against Spain last Sunday.
Yet Southgate is a safety-first manager and his tactics were questionable for much of his reign as England manager. I have met Gareth on a few occasions and he is a lovely guy who should walk away from the England job with his head held high. To get to two European Championship finals and a World Cup semi-finals is a magnificent record and it is even harder to do it when you are dealing with expectations that are off the scale.
England will always have this mentality that everything evolves around them and they are entitled to win the biggest trophies on the international stage because they invented the game. Well, by the time the next World Cup rolls around, it will be 60 years since England lifted their one and only trophy on the international stage, so it might be time for English football to drop that sense of entitlement. While Southgate deserves cr.