Former Liverpool captain Steven Gerrard has suggested the Football Association should have been appointing managers like Jurgen Klopp to oversee the England senior set-up.
Gerrard was part of the so-called 'Golden Generation' which included the likes of John Terry, Frank Lampard, Michael Owen, Wayne Rooney and Rio Ferdinand.
However, despite the star-studded line-up, England flopped at several major tournaments, with Gerrard never going past the quarter-final stage of a major competition.
During his time in the England set-up, the Reds icon played under Kevin Keegan, Sven-Goran Eriksson, Steve McClaren and Fabio Capello, but believes the FA needed a manager in charge who was bigger than the players.
“I look back on England with a lot of regrets,” he told the BBC's Match of the Day Top 10 podcast with Gary Lineker and Jermaine Jenas.
“I see the picture of that team and we had some fantastic groups of players over the years. We came close at times but there’s no getting away from it, we underperformed.
“Looking back, we needed a manager who was bigger than all of those individual players. There were managers available at the time, for example Rafa Benitez, but he might not have wanted to have been an international manager at that time.
"I look at managers now that are bigger than the team; Klopp, Mourinho and Guardiola. I think someone like that who was above the golden generation who was prepared to make the tough decisions would have got more out of that group of players, in my opinion."
