England star hails Lee Carsley’s ‘bit of arrogance’ as Three Lions boss

Phil HaighPublished Oct 8, 2024, 11:12pm|Updated Oct 8, 2024, 11:13pm

Levi Colwill has offered a glowing endorsement of interim England manager Lee Carsley, praising the ‘bit of arrogance’ helium has astir the prime of the team.

Carsley got disconnected to a bully commencement successful complaint of his country, picking up 2-0 wins implicit Ireland and Finland past month.

He has 2 much games up of him successful the coming days, with the Three Lions hosting Greece and past going to Finland for the reverse fixture successful the Nations League.

The erstwhile Everton and Birmingham midfielder has strengthened his lawsuit to instrumentality the occupation connected a imperishable ground and is simply a genuine contender for the role, with Colwill sounding similar helium is connected committee with the idea.

The Chelsea defender has precocious praise for the rookie manager, saying helium has rapidly won implicit the elder squad aft stepping up from his relation with the Under-21s.

‘I deliberation the lads truly similar him,’ said the three-cap England star. ‘I bash and I tin lone truly speech astir myself. I spot him and we’ll spot what happens successful the future.

‘He’s a precise calm person. I deliberation helium brings that to the team. An astonishing idiosyncratic and a strong-minded manager. He knows however helium wants to play and however it matches the players we’ve got.

‘He has a spot of arrogance astir the squad and himself, successful presumption of “we’ve got the champion players successful the world” and we each judge that we tin instrumentality it that adjacent measurement to winning a immense competition.

‘I think, with us, we are a large nation, a immense federation and for illustration astatine club, arsenic well, we’re a large squad with astonishing players truthful to person that mindset, I deliberation each the players already cognize that and they are already tuned into that and they privation to beryllium the champion possible.

‘So I deliberation erstwhile everyone’s connected the aforesaid wavelength, it works perfectly.’

England big Greece connected Thursday earlier travelling to instrumentality connected Finland successful Helsinki connected Sunday.

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