‘Completed football at women’s level’
talkSPORT’s Jamie O’Hara believes Sarina Wiegman could thrive as a manager at the top of men’s football.
Wiegman has now guided England to back-to-back European championships after they defending their 2022 title with victory over Spain in the final of the Women’s Euros at the weekend.
This was a third European Championship in a row for the Dutch coach, who first won it with her native Netherlands in 2017.
She also led the Lionesses to the final of the Women’s World Cup in 2023, where they were beaten by Spain.
And O’Hara believes Wiegman is ready to take the unprecedented step of becoming the first woman to manage a club in the English top flight.
Speaking on The Sports Bar, O’Hara said: “Unbelievable from the Lionesses. They’ve made it happen. Unbelievable from Sarina Wiegman as well.
“I was thinking about it and having a conversation with a few people and saying, do you think that Sarina Wiegman… she’s basically completed football at women’s level. The World Cup is one that she might want to get her hands on. She’s come very close to it.”
He added: “If you gave her the right infrastructure, you gave her the right football club, you know, with the players who would respect what she’s about and respect what she’s done, and I think you get that from Premier League footballers.
“I genuinely believe that she could handle it tactically. She’s amazing in the press.
“Everyone loves her, what she’s about as a manager. She knows what she’s doing. She’s got a really good team around her.
“If you put that infrastructure that she’s got with England and you went and said, right, ‘I’m going to go and put this in at a Premier League football club’, I think she’d do well.
“I think she could handle it.”
