Following reports claiming that the FA would prefer a British manager to replace the potentially outgoing Gareth Southgate, Leicester City boss Brendan Rodgers, has once again been mentioned as a viable option as Southgate’s successor. Speaking after the France defeat,
Gareth Southgate said: “When I’ve been through the past few tournaments my emotions have been difficult to really think through properly in those following few weeks. It took so much energy out of you, and you have so much going through your mind. I want to make the right decision either way because it has to be the right one to go again, or the right one not to go again, and I don’t think tonight is the time to make a decision like that. For everything that I’ve loved about the last few weeks, I still have how things have been for 18 months. What’s been said and what’s been written, the night at Wolves,” Southgate said, referencing perhaps the lowest moment of his time in charge, when England fell to an embarrassing 4-0 defeat at Molineux, resulting in boos from many of the England supporters in attendance. There’s lots of things in my head that’s really conflicted at the moment, so what I want to make sure, if it’s the right thing to say, is that I’ve definitely got the energy to do that. I don’t want to be four, five months down the line thinking I’ve made the wrong call. It’s too important for everybody to get that wrong.”
With the FA reportedly expressing a desire for Southgate’s replacement to be British, the shortlist for potential candidates to assume the role is limited, with others in the frame being Tuchel’s Chelsea successor Graham Potter, Newcastle United’s Eddie Howe and Rodgers, according to The Sun
