CAPELLO: Decision in two weeks' time

1:49pm Monday 28th June 2010 in npower Championship Table & Results

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FABIO CAPELLO has said he wants to stay as England manager but the FA will make a decision on his future within the next two weeks.

Capello stated he has met the FA and told them he wants to stay, despite England's shambolic loss to Germany yesterday.

However Capello said the FA said it would decide about whether to keep him on in a fortnight.

Capello said: "I want to stay on as England manager" but when questioned about why the national team had performed so badly, admitted he and the rest of the coaching staff felt the players were tired.

He refused to single out Wayne Rooney, who had been unable to reproduce his Manchester United form during the tournament.

An FA spokesman stressed there was no plan to make any snap decisions or rush into an announcement about Capello, which is why it had been agreed to leave the final decision for two weeks.

Capello, speaking at a press conference today in Rustenburg, where England were based in South Africa, inisisted he wanted to stay on as manager and knew he must make sweeping changes to the set-up.

The Italian met with FA chairman sir Dave Richards in the aftermath of England's World Cup exit and they will meet again in two weeks.

Capello put England's poor performance in South Africa down to tiredness after a long season in the Premier League.

"The players were not like I know. Not so fast, not so quick," he said.

Comments(11)

brianbbleys says...
2:25pm Mon 28 Jun 10

he should be sacked without compensation along with most of the team and the FA should get people who are PROUD to play for England

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BARTSIMPSON returns says...
2:35pm Mon 28 Jun 10

Teviz played in the Premiership and didn't look tired. They are not fit to wear the England shirt. Tired..my ARS*

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the wizard says...
2:55pm Mon 28 Jun 10

Basically our squad is too old, most of the players are 29+ and were feeling the effects of altitude, which probably accounted for their malais.
Knock out competions like this are all about being resourcefull and scoring goals, we relied on Rooney who isn't and didn't score any goals. Why wasn't he dropped in favour of Crouch , who's scoring rate in an England shirt is good. We need a new team and a complete new back room of trainers as well, as our present set up has never worked effiecently at any tournament in recent memory. Perhaps if overseas players were restricted in the Premier League the nation would have more home grown talent coming through. It seems we either have a successfull Prem League or successfull National team, only the powers that be can decide on that.

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online_reader says...
3:54pm Mon 28 Jun 10

The FA are fools; they were so sure that Capello was going to do brilliantly and then leave them that they renegotiated his contract on the 2nd June removing the break clause that would have allowed them to sack him without heavy compensation. Of course he isn't going to resign, that would mean leaving with nothing; thanks to the renegotiation if the FA want to sack him they now have to pay him about £12 million.

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Power says...
4:30pm Mon 28 Jun 10

Why do people simply not accept the fact that we are not one of the top sides in world football? English players look amazing at club level because they are surrounded by great foreign players who make them look good. Put the english players all together and the sum of the parts is average at best. We do not have a single player who would come near the best in the world in any position. The manager may be culpable in some respects, but dont hang him out to dry because the players simply did not perform and were not professional enough to raise themselves when it mattered. The generally bad standard of the Premier league outside the top 3 or 4 sides (full of foreign players) masks the fact that we have no class

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rickenback says...
5:02pm Mon 28 Jun 10

wayne went round cole,heskey,then james!capello shock his head!i said go round the cones wayne!

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Yawn says...
6:21pm Mon 28 Jun 10

This is the post tournament tradition.
The public clamouring for the manager's scalp.
How many more managers are we going to sack before people realise that the current Team is no good at an international level?
If I was Capello, I'd offer the Team, The FA and those fans that blindly deify the players two fingers before leaving.

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LadyPenelope says...
9:26am Tue 29 Jun 10

The trouble is that "English" football levels are rubbish, and our premiership relies very heavily on foreign players. Why can't we change the rules and have at least 6 players on the pitch at any one time that are English born? How are we supposed to succeed in World tournaments if we don't even give English players a chance to progress in English football?
I'd recommend boycotting all teams who don't field 6+ English players on a regular basis.

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George III says...
9:30am Tue 29 Jun 10

LadyPenelope wrote:
The trouble is that "English" football levels are rubbish, and our premiership relies very heavily on foreign players. Why can't we change the rules and have at least 6 players on the pitch at any one time that are English born? How are we supposed to succeed in World tournaments if we don't even give English players a chance to progress in English football?
I'd recommend boycotting all teams who don't field 6+ English players on a regular basis.
That would be deemed 'racist'.

Armchair critics, don't you just love em !!

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the wizard says...
3:03pm Tue 29 Jun 10

There is another angle to this plot as well, one which seems to be overlooked. SKY plough millions into the Premier League. They obviously have a lot of sway when it comes down to decision making, and would not want the"competative spectacle" removed from the games. So getting the oversea's players out of the Premier League becomes very complicated. I think the government could perhaps "regulate" work permits using the arguement that there are enough players already here with simular skills, as they are trying to regulate immigration, but I suppose that would present a huge can of worms. I agree with many points, but enforcing them would be a massive task, and Mr Wenger of Arsenal would be the first to heckle any plan to restrict players, as he has done in the past.

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Abingdon_born_Cowley says...
12:27pm Wed 30 Jun 10

I think the reality is we are the only nation that seems to play players out of position becuase they are good for their clubs, playing in a different position. Its wierd.
Why is Gerrard playing somewhere he NEVER plays for Liverpool, why is Rooney not being used effectivley. Why be shocked at Walcott when you play him in a position different to the one he plays at Arsenal, and why is Upson of West Ham playing instead of Dawson who played most of Spurs games this season and they are in teh Champs league.

We had players so far out of comfort zones it was amazing we even got through to play Germany.

Too many players left who see uit as a given rather than a privaledge.

Drop the League Cup and take the premiership down to 18 teams.

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