Southgate has no plans to quit his England role
GARETH Southgate says there is “no way” he would walk away from the England job before
Euro 2020.
Handed the reins - initially on a temporary basis - after Sam Allardyce’s abrupt exit in September 2016, the 48-year-old has flourished as manager of the Three Lions.
“First and foremost, I love the job I’m in,” Southgate said.
“I’m proud to be England manager. We’ve got a second semi-final coming this summer and a Euros at home - well, I say at home, the group stage is at home - so there is no way I’d be walking away from this.
“After those Euros, people might want me or might not want me, here or somewhere else.
“You can’t look too far ahead in football. You’re quite right, I’m contracted to 2022 - or whenever that World Cup will finish! I don’t look any further than that.
“I’m sure at some point in my life, I’ll want to go back to club football because people will say, ‘oh well he did OK as an international manager, but he didn’t work as a club manager’.
“How could you when you step out the dressing room? What do you know, really, two years into your coaching career?
“I think at this point, at some stage in the distant future, I would want to do that, but I actually don’t know, because there might be something else more important in my life.” JAN Siewert has revealed the shocking extent of Huddersfield Town’s injury crisis ahead of his side’s Premier League match against West Ham tomorrow.
The German head coach said he only had 15 players available for training yesterday, as he tries to prepare his side for the weekend trip to the London Stadium.
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