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Football journalist Mark Ogden discusses the challenges England’s interim manager Lee Carsley will face as he takes charge of the senior team for the first time: “This is an England squad that has got a lot of big personalities. In the sense of players that have won things, you’re taking about Jude Bellingham who won the Champions League with Real Madrid, a lot of the Manchester City players who have won the Champions League, they’ve won Premier Leagues. Harry Kane, big player, plays for Bayern Munich.
“Gareth Southgate at least had an international career with England behind him, he went to World Cups and Euros, he had that, he could say ‘look, I played in this team, I played under Terry Venables’.
“I just wonder or worry that if Lee Carsley is trying to win the respect of his senior players, it’s easier said than done. I think that they should give him respect, he had a great Premier League career with Everton, he played for Birmingham and Derby as well.
“He’s got a solid career, he’s a strong character but big-name players sometimes want a big-name coach. They just want to look at the coach and think ‘yeah, he’s been there and done it’. I think that’s where Carsley may fall down and I think, wrongly, that’s where he will fall down with fans as well.”
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