Roberto Donadoni is struggling to get the World Cup champions to make it to the Euro 2008 championship.
With Ruud van Nistelrooy and Mark van Bommel refusing to play for Marco van Basten the Dutch team has its own share of problems in their matches against Bulgaria on Sunday and Albania four days later.
Spain coach Luis Aragones intends to recall Raul Gonzalez but his own job is at stake.
Steve McClaren seemed to have been having a better time than the rest of them with his experiments with a 3-5-2 system in a bid to coax the best out of his under-achieving squad.
But now he is busy denying rumours that his players are revolting.
Tough times for the coaches ….!