Mark Goldbridge: Gareth Southgate's links to Manchester United are baffling and make me want to vomit – there are better managers in the Championship

The idea of ​​Gareth Southgate as Manchester United manager “induces vomiting.”

This is according to talkSPORT presenter and YouTuber Mark Goldbridge, who reacted to new reports linking England manager to Old Trafford job…to say that there are better coaches in the Championship.

Because I joke a lot, I think a lot of people think I'm joking, but I've said consistently for years that Gareth Southgate He is someone I can't stand as an England manager and as a coach in general. I find it boring and pragmatic.

We saw it in the international break: England played two games and we were rubbish, and he has some of the best players in the world.

I would love to sign up your agent! Gareth's agent, let's talk, because the gigs he gets are incredible, it's incredible to me.

I even turned down an invitation to see his work! I was invited to London when it first came out and I politely declined; I told them I would be a hypocrite if I saw anything about Gareth Southgate when I didn't rate him as a manager.

Seriously speaking, yes manchester united naming Gareth Southgate, it really saddens me. It's not me making fun of him, I would really feel very sad inside. It almost caused vomiting.

I don't want him near Manchester United. I think there are better coaches in the Championship. Kieran McKenna and Mark Robins are much better than him. I don't think he's good enough to manage Crystal Palace or Fulham. I would say Rob Edwards at Luton is a better coach.

If he gets the job at Man United, for me that will go down in my entire life as one of those moments where you just think, 'Am I living in the Matrix?', because I just don't understand it. I really don't understand it.

He has managed some of the best players England has ever produced and taken us to tournaments, but then he blew it. If they don't win the Euro this summer… I think I could win the Euro with that team!

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So why did he get the job at Man United? I find it disconcerting. I think it would be horrible to have him in charge. It also has nothing to do with Man United. I just can't stand the thought of it.

I have said this many times before, but I think we should give Erik ten Hag time.

If you give pep guardiola This team is not going to have a tough time like Manchester City. If you give Jurgen Klopp In this team they are not going to press high, dominate possession and create many opportunities.

If I were talking to INEOS, I would say: “You definitely have a problem with the players.”

We've seen it with the Spurs, they just fell off a cliff and Ange Postecoglou just can't get them to do what they could do at the start of the season.

I think the players return to their type and that's what happened at United. The players, mentally and physically, with their football IQ, just don't have the skills to do it. These Man United players are more suited to Thomas Frank at Brentford with a counter-attacking style than Man City's style of play.

The player profiles are not correct. If you sack Ten Hag and bring in Tuchel or De Zerbi, NOT Southgate, they have a certain style of football that will not suit these players either. It's always about the players, we have to change them.

The results fall on the coach and that is always the case, but we have fired many coaches and we continue to end up in the same position.

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My fear is that if they fire Ten Hag and bring in another coach who will want to play a certain way, and don't cut these players, we'll just go back to where we are now.

Mikel Arteta is the example. Arsenal He finished eighth and the fans had banners and t-shirts saying “Arteta out”, but the last two years have been fantastic, because they gave him time to rebuild that team.

That's why I would give Ten Hag one more year.

I don't like the coaching market, I don't like many of the players. Can you get a new coach and fire the players at the same time? I don't think you can, it's one or the other and then maybe next season you switch to Ten Hag… or maybe he turns it around.

In any case, it can't be Gareth Southgate. I'm sure he's a really nice guy and this isn't personal, I just don't rate him as a coach and for me he's a big no.