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FA apparently confident of him agreeing to take charge.

No link yet, sorry.

Really gosh!

I've heard this elsewhere also.

I have to say, the idea of Big Phil taking over fills me with more hope than McLaren/Allardyce/Curbs (tho personally I like Curbs, I just don't think he's right for England).

I'm not even sure anymore :Ride On Fatbury's Lovestick:

Radio 5  are reporting it as hes been offered the job ,had 2 interviews and they await his reply.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/internationals/4949118.stm

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Superb, best man for the job it'll either be a calamity or an inspired choice probably both.

Hope he accepts. Probably is the best candidate really.

I'd be happy with that with a few points...

1) He has to be given the chance to mess about in a few friendlies seeing what players are capable off - I'd prefer that to just sticking with a sven friendly, big player team.

2) I hope that the english press get behind him to start of with. He's a lot of the fan's favourite choice, but wouldn't be suprised if a bit of daily mail style anti non-english press coverage occurs.

3) He drops beckham and plays gerrard on the right with carrick and  lampard in the middle and cole on the left... wait that's just what I'd do if I was manager. ignore me.

so yeah. I'm not sure I've actually made a point there. I hope I have.

can he speak English?

no

neither can half our squad.

\o/ Big Phil Sco's Barmy Army \o/

:D Dare i say it,but the FA appear to have finally done something good,he hasn't signed up yet though.Come on Big Phil,you know you want too :)

proper bastard!!  You lucky fuckers!

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It would be a quality appointment :D ,but i ain't putting the bunting out just yet,cause it hasn't been confirmed and the FA usually fuck something up :x

A grand cock-up on the FA's part though isn't it?

Ruling him out, himself declaring his loyalty to Portugal, has to be an Englishman...

Good manager but fucking rubbish from the FA, which is odd as they've got a good bloke

The FA are shit  :x ,i will still be slightly amazed if Big Phil comes to us tbh because i don't trust the useless suits who run our national game,they usually conspire to cock something up.

 :mrgreen:

Its true though,i think they are all useless cocks in suits!

I think the problem with the fa was that none of them really agreed on who to appoint. To be fair the papers haven't helped by continually claiming that one manager or another was a certainty for the job and then changing their minds the next day.

If Scolari is appointed though and does well then couldn't i care less about the selection process.

I think the F.A have picked the wrong man!, Andy King should have got the job, im sure you agree with that Ben.

This man speaks so much sense for a borderline alcky.

I also agree with that, Carrick must start as the defensive Midfielder, if not, drop Lampard and play Carrick with Gerrard.

As much as I like Carrick and he should definitely be in the squad, you'd be mad to drop Lampard who alongside Rooney is our best player.

The idea of dropping Beckham and moving the versatile Gerrard to the right is much better, Beckham's record in major tournaments is pathetic, red card in 1998, pulled out of a crucial tackle in 2002, missed penalty in 2004, he's clearly a liability.

not happy, wanted it to be english.

I agree Johno,sadly there isn't an England manager about who has the experience and proven quality at international level :( My first choice was Hiddink[sp],but the FA messed it up so Scolari is the next best option :D .

This morning on the radio apparently he has partially agreed to the job however they have offered him 2.5 million and he wants 5 million (a year)!  Greedy foreigner.  I think he should prove his worth before he even considers asking for more money!

Tbf to Scolari,he must be aware that Sven is making a shed load of money :x ,its understandable that he's going to try and get as much as he can.Sven is on a massive wage and we've done nothing under him,instead of losing in glorious fashion like we used to,now we just lose  :(

I think he PROVED HIS WORTH by winning the world cup .. getting Portugal to the final of Euro 2004 and getting Portugal to the world cup unbeaten in their group

Better to have a tactical and technical coach than a big boot merchant like Sam Allardyce .. personally id have preferred Martin O'Neill but Big Phil is a good choice

Surely when you're talking that kind of money a vast percentage should be performance related???

He's a good manager but I think a manager of a national side should at least be able to speak directly to his players and not rely on an interpreter!  Get him some intensive English lessons and I'm all for it....

I was referring to proving his worth managing England.

If he's really asked for us to double his salary then we should tell him to stick it.

What is Sven on? He is well within his rights to ask for a similar wage, if you ask me.

4 million I think.

I'm only going by bbc radio news this morning but apparently he was offered 2.5 and asked for double which is more than what Sven is on anyway!

http://home.skysports.com/list.asp?hlid=382900&CPID=219&clid=114&lid=2&title=Scolari+confirms+offer

**over 4 million

Sounds reasonable.

Exactly what i said Dave :) Scolari isn't going to want less than Sven is he,that would be very silly of the bloke.If we want him  we will have to pay him at least what Sven is getting,and who knows Big Phil might actually do a job ,and not spend his time sleeping around with women whilst bumming David Beckham.