I do believe we are capable of playing another brand than the traditional English. Doesn't mean it has to be Latin American. I strongly believe we can play a style where we can build and play through our midfield. We have the talent, we just need a coach to motivate and enforce the discipline during play.
Precisely. Also, the notion of an "English style" (certainly what posters apparently have in mind a la the 70s and 80s) is passé to somewhat passé in elite football.
There are two concerns (1) the immediate future and (2) way beyond that. For the immediate future I agree with all the posts that are focused on maximizing what we have; for beyond that, maximizing what we have without nutrients from other player development traditions is to ignore reality.
While there have been players that have been good players that have emerged from within our traditions, based on what we have, we are underproducing high caliber pros (and those that we have produced are not being produced through a global and systematic structure ... which is where the crux of the problem lies).
That will continue to be the case if we believe the issue is absolutely grounded in the distances between an "English style", "Latin styles", "US style", "European style" etc. The issue is not stylistic in the abstract. It is a technical and tactical composite exaggerated by a gap in physical preparation. In Africa there's not a lot of time spent being consumed with an "African style" (that was primarily the discourse of several years back) ... what they are consumed with is putting players on the market who can play anywhere and adapt anywhere without stunting the players' organic qualities ... which is basically what the South American market leaders have been preoccupied with ...
It was the English who had a bias against the prospect of dominance by certain foreign players in the English game and contemporary history has pretty much put paid to each one of those prejudices and biases. It turns out the deficiencies were English coaching deficiencies rather than absolute player ineptitude or lack of suitability to English conditions.