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I have a question, based partly on my own experience, and how I ended up failing to do what I really wanted.

Will your enthusiasm for the job wane if you find you can't generate the interest you're hoping for? England is a small nation in BB, though I do believe we're big enough to compete, but sometimes its difficult to both generate, and then keep up the enthusiasm for the representative teams.

I'm not sure how much it's about enthusiasm / how much actual enthusiasm I have anyway? Every politician promises things they can't deliver right? But you vote based on thinking you align with their principles (ew, the thought of having matching philosophies with career politicians, but you know what I mean..)

I'd be quite happy to take the job if it was just monitoring the top 30 prospects for their training progress and game shape, picking the best of them, scouting opposition and setting tactics. Ultimately I enjoy the tactical part of BB a lot as well...But I want to aim higher than that? If I generate any extra interest/enthusiasm among others then it might catch on and become a thing of it's own (lthat saying about snowballs and hills..), especially if we get a new NT manager who agrees / can do their bit next year (no offence Zeus, but it seems you're not long for the job based on that approval rating...maybe you can bring it back though / and maybe you are interested in looking at some of the young future NT prospects, I'd find out..)

I'd also need to speak to you (and probably js8) about what has/hasn't worked in the past. Or if you want to be open about it in this thread then go for it.

Other questions for me?

I should have replied to everyone instead of Bergkamp but I did intend my question to be for both of you. Sorry for not making that clear.

I work for several years in the staff of Italian national teams. I also trained micronas such as Barbados U21 (taking her to the highest position ever in ranking) and Indonesia U21.

Although I come from the greatest community of the game, I can work even in smaller communitie.

I think I can do a good job, and my enthusiasm however things will not decrease, indeed I hope to transmit it to you.

Any more questions for me? (go off topic!)

Not long to register for anyone else who wants to stand, I'm still kinda worried someone is gonna go for it so maybe this question is premature, but if I didn't stand were any other English managers planning to?

How do you plan to stop Italian users form poaching our best draftees and then training them into oblivion? It hard to understand why Italian managers bid 30%-35% more than any other nationality for worse on our players when there are better ones who go for less.

This affects both NTs and U21.

Last edited by Lemonshine at 9/30/2017 3:25:59 PM

I think it is not bad if some prospect ends up in the hands of good and selected managers.

We in Italy try to place our best drafts in the hands of good and trusty masters, for the rest not to believe that we do not, for the Italians there are Chinese teams that spend money out of every market

59 TSP Polish guy 6'8'' 3.5 million (Polish team)
60 TSP Polish guy 6'10'' 3.6 million (US team)
57 TSP English guy 6'8'' Italian bids 4.6million

4.5-5.0m is the same amount that people paid for 31yo 140 TSP players recently...