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Greg Dyke sets England 2022 World Cup target

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New Football Association chairman Greg Dyke says the England team should aim to reach the semi-final of Euro 2020 and win the World Cup in 2022.
But in a wide-ranging speech, Dyke warned England may not be able to compete seriously on the world stage without changes in the domestic game.
"English football is a tanker that needs turning," he said.
Dyke will set up an FA commission to ask key questions on how England can change its long-term prospects.

The commission will ask why England are in this situation, what could be done and how any changes can be implemented.
In a lengthy speech, Dyke laid out his vision to address what he called the "frightening trend" of the reduction in the number of English players in the Premier League.
Yet amid a backdrop of foreign influence in the top division, with many believing it is having an adverse effect on England teams, he stated: "The two targets I have for the England team are - one, to at least reach the semi-finals of Euro 2020 and two, win the World Cup in 2022."
England have not gone beyond a World Cup quarter-final since they reached the last four in 1990 and have only won it once, in 1966. Their best performances in the European Championship came when they reached the semi-finals in 1968 and 1996.
The 2020 European Championship is set to be held across Europe, with the FA having submitted Wembley as one of the potential venues.
However, the 2022 World Cup is scheduled to take place in Qatar, with Dyke saying temperatures of 50C will make it "impossible" to hold the tournament there in summer.
Dyke said: "No doubt some will say these targets will burden the players with more pressure. I don't see it in that way. Top players must be able to handle pressure if they want to be winners. We want to be winners."
Last season, the number of English under-21 players competing in the Premier League dropped to its lowest level. In the summer, the England Under-21 side crashed out of the European Championship in Israel without winning a point.

Dyke accepted that the FA "had not done as well as we should" in building a successful England team over the years.
And he added: "If the best of our emerging young players can't get a game here, then we have a serious problem."
He warned the England set-up had been weakened rather than strengthened after 20 years of the Premier League but said his speech was "not designed to start a blame game".
During the summer transfer window, there were 137 Premier League signings but only 25 (or 18.2%) of those were English.
Financial analysts Deloitte said £60m of the gross £630m summer spending was on English players. This is just under 10%.
"We want to work hand in hand with the [Premier] League," added Dyke, who started in his FA role on 13 July.
And he said the chairmen of the Premier League, Football League, Professional Footballers' Association and League Managers' Association have been invited to join his newly-formed commission to start this month, with Dyke urging all in the game to come forward to give evidence.
He also highlighted that Premier League clubs had "made a huge investment in academies but so far the game had not seen a huge return on that investment".
The FA chairman added there were difficulties in getting clubs to release players to join up with England squads at all levels.
 

Bit of a joke really, he's stating the obvious that we knew already. Talking about winning the world cup is just silly, no effin chance.
 
Yawn......been here already. The golden generation of Gerrard, Lampard etc were supposed to bring back the world cup in 2006. Seems even less likely now.....I agree with the poster who says he sounds like a Kopite......the FA seem to think that somehow England 'deserve' to be at the top table of world football without any justification other than that we founded the game.
 

If young players can't get a game in the Premier League, they need to go where they can get one. How many young players have tried their luck abroad? How many would do what Fabregas, Pique, Messi et al did and go abroad at a young age?

There's Dier, the lad from Sporting, and the kid that Liverpool just bought, but that's about it. You never hear of a kid from a top 4 club academy going abroad in order to get games.

The young left back at Chelsea for instance is 24 now, and shows no sign of dislodging Cole from the starting line up. Why hasn't he moved elsewhere for games?
 
Nope.

Until the entire coaching system is changed from a very young age the England team will remain shyte.
 
The delusion continues.

They need to make a British Champions Cup so England can lift some silverware this century.
 
What a cringe worthy bellend, sounds like the sort of smarmy salesman that you'd find on rogue traders after he'd forcefully tried to flog your 90 year old Nan a treadmill.
 

So he's just written off a generation of England footballers. In all fairness they complain there aren't enough players to choose from but the ones they do have are all playing in the top sides in the Premiership.

I personally don't think that the players are technically inferior to their European counterparts. I think part of the issue is the different between what happens between 17-20. Here the players are mostly stuck in reserve team football playing against lads of the same age in games were the result is meaningless. The lads in Spain and Germany tend to grow up in the B teams, playing competitive football until they are ready for the first team.

The FA have a lot to answer for. How do they choose the England management team? The players these days are coming through Academies with a more modern approach to football. At the last tournament we had Stuart 442 Pearce forcing them in to out-dated systems with no vision. We also had the better England Under 21 players travelling all the way to Brazil to sit on the bench for a Friendly. What is the point of that?

I guess Southgate could potentially be a step in the right direction, even if he did fail at club level. But They need people in charge of these players who have experience of the same system. You can't have technical players like Wilshere, Barkley, Oxlade-Chamberlain etc. who have all grown up with a new way of football being managed by 'traditional, old fashioned' managers. It makes no sense.

If they want more players they need to address the 17-20 age bracket. I guess they have tried this with the under 21 league. But personally I think the FA could have killed two birds with one stone here. If they allowed clubs with highest or highest 2 categories of Academies to have B teams, they could add a third division in to the Conference North/South for them to start in. They could use this to re-align the teams in these divisions because at the minute the North/South doesn't really apply. Most of the sides in these leagues play re-season friendlies against the younger Premiership sides anyway and the results are competitive, but they also provide them with larger gates.

The B teams should be Under 23, with 8 English/British players in the match-day squad, or something along those lines. The players should only be allowed to move to their A team in the tfr windows.

Teams would be open for promotion/relegation as with the other sides in those divisions, and eventually they'd all find their level. Vauxhall Motors against Everton B, or Man Utd B, would provide them with big gates to increase their revenues as it would give more people a chance to go and watch the youngsters of the clubs they support for a reasonable price in a competitive game.
 

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