2 weeks Ago By The Telegraph
Despite not being quoted amongst the bookmakers to take over as the next Manchester United manager, Gary Lineker has suggested that the left-field appointment of Lee Carsley would be “very interesting”. While for the job at Old Trafford after the , Lineker has thrown the interim England manager’s name in the ring. Carsley, 50, has served as a caretaker manager in the club game four times – at Coventry City twice and with Brentford and Birmingham City – and has coached England age-grade sides full-time, but never at club level.
Speaking on an emergency episode of the Rest Is Football podcast, Lineker said: “ have gone generally down the big -name route and managers that have won things and stuff like that. “It’s quite unusual for English clubs, isn’t it, to take a punt on someone, the big clubs, to take a punt on someone. In Germany, if you’ve got a young coach there, they’ll suddenly put them in, they’ll get a decent job.
Whereas that doesn’t tend to happen here. “I’m going to throw in a name here, and I think it will be very interesting. I think he’s clearly a brilliant coach.
A certain Lee Carsley, who they probably won’t think about. “But he’s an imaginative coach, he plays really attacking football. The players, from what I heard at England, thought he was really good, really interesting and thoughtful on the game.
“The one thing he struggled with a little bit, I suppose, was the media side of things. But I think you can learn. That’s quite easy to learn quite quickly.
“I don’t suppose they’ll go for him, because they’ll probably go down that either stick with [Ruud] if he does well at the start, which is often the case. But there are not many big names out there available at the moment in terms of your elite, proven, year-in year-out managers.” Carsley will be in charge of England’s next two matches, against Greece on November 14 and Ireland on November 17, before .
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