{"id":226467,"date":"2016-06-29T09:55:26","date_gmt":"2016-06-29T09:55:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=226467"},"modified":"2016-06-29T09:55:26","modified_gmt":"2016-06-29T09:55:26","slug":"fa-considers-southgate-for-interim-job","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/2016\/06\/fa-considers-southgate-for-interim-job\/","title":{"rendered":"FA considers Southgate for interim job"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Football Association is prepared to make Gareth Southgate interim England manager for the start of their World Cup qualifying campaign as it begins a global search for Roy Hodgson’s successor.<\/p>\n

Hodgson resigned after four years as manager following the humiliating Euro 2016 last-16 loss to Iceland in Nice on Monday.<\/p>\n

FA chief executive Martin Glenn, sitting alongside an emotional Hodgson in Chantilly, even suggested the search could take months – bringing Arsenal manager Arsene Wenger into the equation as he enters the final year of his contract at Emirates Stadium.<\/p>\n

Glenn, asked if England Under-21 boss Southgate could take charge for the opening qualifier against Slovakia in September, said: “We’ll see.<\/p>\n

“We’d like to get one for the first World Cup qualifier, but if we don’t we have an interim plan in mind.<\/p>\n

“We are not talking about names but it would be a pretty obvious one to pick.”<\/p>\n

The selection process will be led by Glenn, FA board member David Gill and technical director Dan Ashworth – and they plan to conduct a widespread consultation process before narrowing down the contenders.<\/p>\n

Glenn said: “It’s such an important decision. We have got to get the right person. To wait a few months – if that’s what we had to do – would be the right decision.<\/p>\n

“You might get a few interim solutions, where a few managers come to help.”<\/p>\n

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Wenger would be a prime candidate if the FA could tempt him – so would the FA wait a year for any manager, not necessarily the Arsenal boss, to see out a deal?<\/p>\n

Glenn said the FA would not delay that long if it jeopardised the World Cup qualifying campaign, but added: “It would be unlikely. A lot of things can happen in a year which may undo your plans.<\/p>\n

“So what I am saying is it is hypothetical. I wouldn’t rule it out but I would say it would be less likely.”<\/p>\n

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    Glenn also refused to restrict the search to English coaches and insisted choosing a foreign coach would not impact on the production of home-grown players.<\/p>\n

    “It has to be the best person for the job,” he said.<\/p>\n

    “You have to make trade-offs. If there were the perfect English manager you would pick them. I am not sure there is, but we would take a good look and make a rational assessment.<\/p>\n

    “The Premier League clubs all want home-grown players to get through because it makes financial sense. If I were to pick a foreign coach I don’t think that would change anything materially or somehow lose face.”<\/p>\n

    He was backed by outgoing manager Hodgson, who said: “I don’t have a problem with it. It would be very hypocritical of me to do so having been coach of Switzerland, Finland and the United Arab Emirates.<\/p>\n

    “I think I should be the last person to say it’s got to be a national. It’s got to be the best person.<\/p>\n

    “I think it would be nice if it was an Englishman. I have been proud as an Englishman to do the job and I have had a lot of support from the general public as an Englishman – but Martin will have to find the best person available.”<\/p>\n

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    Source: BBC<\/p>\n

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