Former England winger Darren Anderton believes the Three Lions would have won the Euros if Pep Guardiola had been in charge. (More Football News)
Following England's 2-1 defeat to Spain in the Euro 2024 final, the Football Association (FA) announced on Tuesday that Gareth Southgate had stepped down as manager.
Since then, a host of names have been linked with the vacant job, with Eddie Ho🔯we and Graham Potter among the reported frontrunners.
One of the others being link𓂃ed with the position is Guardiola, who is going into the final year♉ of his contract at Manchester City.
The Spaniard won an unprecedented fourth consecutive Premier League title with the Citizens last season, though conced🌃ed at the end of the campaign he was "closer to leaving than staying".
Guardiola expressed an interest in managing a national team in the past, and Anderton, who represented the Three Lions at Euro 1996, is confident he would bring E🌳ngland success.
"I think the best way to address it i♚s that if Pep managed this squad for this tournament, I think we would have won it, and we would have probably won it pretty comfortably," Anderton told Stats Perform.
Guardiola's long-time rival Jurgen Klopp has also be🔴en mooted as an option following his departure from Liverpool after nearly nine years at the club.
Klopp was approached 💟by the United States after they sacked head coach Gregg Berhalter in the wake of a disappointing Copa America campaign, but the German rebuffed that offer as he continues his sabbatical.
However, Anderto♚n thinks Klopp would be a grea꧂t fit for England.
"We know what he's all about, he knows what English football's all about," Anderton said. "Successful, plays 𒊎an exciting brand of football.
"I think he gets the best out of players. Players seem to love him, want to play for him. I th🤡ink he would play a brand of football that we'd be excited by.
"He's another one that I could totally understand if he were to be offer♌ed it.♈ I don't think you can go wrong at all, apart from just the non-English aspect."
Lionesses manager Sarina Wiegman is another name in 𝓀the mix, though she has already labelled the links as "inappropriate".
Wiegman led England's women to Euros glory inಞ 2022, while also guiding them to their first-ever World Cup final, which they lost to Spain.
Despite the 54-year-old's success, Anderton admits he would🐠 be shocked if the FA chose to appoint her.
"I understand a n🍸ame being thrown in. I just feel that that wouldn't work," Anderton added.
"Obviously, the two games are totally different. ౠShe has been incredibly successful, but I just can't see that happening.
"For me, that would obviously be a huge, huge shock, but she's obviously done an incredible job and has been a winner. But I feel for me that's something that I'd be really, really shocked by iꦬf it happened🍨."
