Porter re-employed? Sweden has two great forwards in the Premier League. It needs to change its coach after finishing bottom of the 4th round of World Cup qualifying with 1 point.

The latest report from Italian transfer expert Romano is that the Swedish Football Association has contacted former Chelsea coach Porter and has discussed the possibility of Porter coaching the Swedish national team.

It is reported that the Swedish Football Association has made preliminary contact with Porter, who was dismissed from West Ham United in the Premier League last month. Porter became famous in the Swedish league before coaching the English team. He coached Ostersund from the Swedish fourth-level league to the top league, and led the team to win the Swedish Cup in 2017. Then he went to the UK to develop, and successively coached Swansea, Brighton, Chelsea and West Ham United. Porter is open to coaching the Swedish national team and praised the job as attractive.

Why does the Swedish national team need to change its coach? In the last European preliminaries of the World Cup, Sweden lost 0-1 at home to Kosovo and suffered a home and away double defeat by their opponents. They scored 1 point in 4 rounds. They have already missed the 2026 World Cup in the United States, Canada and Mexico. Even competing for the second place in the group to qualify for the play-offs is basically an impossible task, and coach Thomas resigned.

Sweden is the most valuable team among the four teams in Group B of the European Group Stage of the World Cup, but it ranks at the bottom. This must be related to the poor tactical ability of the coaching staff. The Swedish team is full of stars. They have five main players of the Premier League and Champions League teams, namely Isaac of Liverpool, Jokeres of Arsenal, Kulusevski and Ribevar of Tottenham, and Ilanga of Newcastle. In addition, there are also well-known stars in the five major leagues such as Brighton's Ayari, Frankfurt's Hugo Larsson, Dortmund's Svensson, Atlanta's Sheehan, and Aston Villa's Lindelof. Sweden's strength and ranking are definitely not matched, and a coaching change is a must. Sweden also has the qualification to advance to the play-offs through the UEFA Nations League. If Porter takes office and the World Cup preliminaries are run-in, as long as they play well in the play-offs, Sweden still has a good chance of qualifying for the 2026 US-Canada-Mexico World Cup, as long as Porter allows Sweden to play its due strength.