Best news of the day. Since 2018 I have been waiting for this. The bad news might be who will come in. Have been thinking a lot about the state of International Football and every WC the gap between Club Football and International Football is bigger.
Since USA 94 and France 98 the level has been dropping, not growing, at least it's my opinion, don't know if Champions League and Premier League explosion has anything to do with this or no.
Anyway there's also good stories here, like Morocco, actually felt if England hadn't crossed with France they were easily top 4 in this competition, Brazil again failing on the last 8 vs a European team, 35 years old Messi playing at top level, everybody mentions Mbappe but for me the best French player in the tournament is Griezmann.
Regarding Portugal, don't know if our problem was being pragmatic or not, think it's a false question, even not liking him actually Santos this time tried different things but the team lacked some tactical quality to be prepared to find alternative solutions when the opponent scored first.
Presuming Pepe and Ronaldo will leave (makes no sense to remain for 2024) and knowing Diogo Costa had a bad WC, for me the 2 more obvious weaknesses on the team regarding individual quality are that Dias never developed into a top CB for Portugal, at least if I compare him with Ricardo Carvalho or Pepe, he is miles away from them.
Another obvious weakness is that we need a much better defensive midfielder than Neves, he isn't a top international player, don't care what they wrote about him over the years, we need much better than this.
Another weakness in this tournament was that we didn't tried to insert Leão on the 11 because he unbalances tactically the team, but he is the only wide player who adds speed to our game, it was a mistake we didn't tried him on the 11.
This also brings the question for a country that for decades created top wingers, or at least good players for international level (Futre, Conceição,Figo, Simão, Quaresma,Nani, younger Cristiano) it's quite extraordinary our only reliable solution is Leão or maybe Jota. Not good enough.
Anyway, more than talking if the new coach has to be offensive or defensive we need someone who is strong tactically, it's not that International Football is flooded with super coaches, we only need someone who is respected by the players and has strong convictions.