SOUTHGATE WARNED BY FA: WE CAN’T PAY BIG YOU THE MONEY

GARETH SOUTHGATE will return from holiday next week and be offered a new England deal… but has been told there will be no Premier League-style wage.

Southgate has just under two years left on his current £1.7million-a-year package and can expect a hefty pay rise along with a contract that could run until 2024.

But he will not be put on a par with even a mid-table

Premier League boss, who can expect to earn in excess of an annual £5million.

FA chief executive Martin Glenn is keen for Southgate to commit himself long term to the England cause.

Even though Southgate could be in demand when the Premier League sacking season gets under way, Glenn reminded him he could not anticipate a salary of top-club proportions.

Glenn said: “We’d like him to stay beyond 2020. We haven’t talked about it in any depth, if we did, it would be a contract discussion.

“It’s our job to make it competitive. But we can never compete with a Premier League club in terms of pay. We are not a Manchester United.”

Glenn’s sensible approach is in contrast to previous FA regimes who lavished big money on the likes of Sven Goran Eriksson and Fabio Capello (right).

Their pay was equal to those of top club bosses with Capello, who left the post in 2012, pocketing £6m a year.