LONDON: Fabio Capello prides himself on being a thinking manager who can find a solution to the trickiest football problem.

It is just as well, because the Italian will spend the next few days grappling with a conundrum that has puzzled his predecessors for the past five years.

If he can forge a successful midfield partnership between Frank Lampard and Steven Gerrard that can win matches for England, then he may be worth S$15.5 million a year after all.

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