DOOR IS OPEN FOR CELTS JOB
Scots boss says: I could be somewhere else after Euros
squad for a World Cup qualification triple-header against Austria, Israel and the Faroe Islands.
Southampton striker Che Adams is the headline act after the 24-year-old defected from England, as revealed by yesterday morning.
But Clarke’s future then became the major talking point when, intriguingly, he repeatedly rejected the opportunity to put distance between himself and the Hoops hotseat left vacant by Neil Lennon’s departure.
Instead, Clarke insisted he will be delighted to still be Scotland boss when the World Cup comes around in Qatar next year while admitting he might not still be in that job after this summer’s Euro 2020.
Clarke said: “I don’t think it’s my job to knock anything on the head because I’m the Scotland manager. I told you after the Serbia game and straight to your faces that I’d be here for Euro 2020.
“If you can tell me that
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I’ll still be the manager of Scotland come December 2022 in Qatar I’ll be delighted with that as well.
“People can speculate all they want but it’s not my job to get involved in speculation.
“Why would anybody say they don’t want anything? Why would I do that? I could be somewhere else in the summer, I don’t know what’s going to happen.
“Did you know this time last year that we were going to be stuck in the house by a pandemic? Nobody knows what’s going to happen. I didn’t start the speculation.”
SCOTLAND boss Steve Clarke left the door open to a shock move to Celtic this summer by refusing to rule himself out of the running yesterday.