Capello and the contract

Written by Dave Allan Tuesday, 01 June 2010 21:35

England World Cup Blog

Football is a very fickle business at the best of times, but perhaps no where more so than in the interactions between owners/associations and managers. The cast iron deals of today become the broken promises of last week on a common enough basis that you often wonder why they even bother making contracts in the first place – yet in the case of the FA's dealing with Capello the contract negotiations may well prove a very important part of the World Cup Campaign.

Capello has had a good enough start that the FA seem to be confident that they will want him regardless of England's performance in the World Cup, and being able to get him to sign a long term contract may yet provide one of the best team boosters possible. Player's who know that their performance in this year's World Cup will have a huge influence on their future selection under the same manager have a huge added incentive to give it their all in a non selfish way.

Knowing that a manager may well just leave straight after you play makes not only your interactions with that manager a little hollow, but can also lead to a disjointed and selfish performance as players simply try and out do each other to try and gain automatic selection under a new manager on individual performance alone. Hopefully a new contract (if it arrives) will provide a powerful team tool – one that may well give England that extra boost they need to make a deep run. 

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