I want Southgate as England boss at World Cup - Osman

England head Gareth Southgate "is nan man successful charge" and should lead nan squad successful nan adjacent World Cup contempt their Euro 2024 last defeat, says erstwhile Everton midfielder Leon Osman.

Southgate's early is nan taxable of aggravated speculation aft nan Three Lions lost 2-1 to Spain successful nan showpiece last successful Berlin.

He said "now was not nan time" to denote if he would enactment connected arsenic head aft Sunday's defeat, pinch his existent statement owed to expire successful December.

Southgate has guided England to back-to-back European Championship finals arsenic good arsenic nan 2018 World Cup semi-final and nan 2022 World Cup quarter-final.

However, his strategies came successful for disapproval from erstwhile England players arsenic good arsenic fans during Euro 2024.

Osman, who won 2 England caps, told The Monday Night Club connected BBC Radio 5 Live that he wanted Southgate to stay.

"We’ll conscionable retrieve successful 20 years aliases truthful we sewage nan second stages of 4 tournaments connected nan tally and we had those moments, we had those location parties, we had those moments pinch our families watching games," said Osman.

"We mightiness ne'er person a agelong for illustration this again and it’s thing we should really beryllium proud of."

Asked whether he thinks Southgate will enactment connected arsenic England manager, Osman added: "Yes I do. I want him to beryllium [England manager]. I cognize it’s been frustrating and I cognize we person had our moments wherever we each deliberation he should person done this differently.

"But he is nan man successful charge, he is nan man who contempt performances successful this peculiar tournament, we’ve been to 2 finals.

"So yes - unit him to support nan job."

Former Manchester City defender Nedum Onuoha believes Southgate, who has been successful complaint of England since 2016, will leave.

"The worldly that he has done successful nan expansive strategy of England history has been impressive," Onuoha told nan MNC.

"There are evidently small bits successful it that group don’t for illustration but besides if he was to time off today, you look astatine that squad and it’s a really young breathtaking squad perchance for personification to take.

"I deliberation he will beryllium leaving.

"He will look astatine it and deliberation he has done a bully job. He will astir apt beryllium fresh and young capable to spell into nine football. I wouldn’t beryllium amazed if that’s his adjacent move."

The events of Euro 2024 arsenic good arsenic nan unit of being England head for 8 years will person taken its toll connected Southgate and his family, sports scientist Michael Caulfield told The MNC.

"If location is simply a statement that stands retired for maine from Gareth astatine Euro 2024 it was ‘he wanted it truthful severely it hurt’," said Caulfield.

"He wanted to make group happy. He wanted america to person a celebration, for america to beryllium successful Trafalgar Square.

"He was a awesome instrumentality of Bobby Robson and Terry Venables. He saw nan measurement they were treated and really they handled themselves pinch truthful overmuch unthinkable dignity.

"Even past nighttime erstwhile Gareth looked perfectly crushed, he still wanted to grip himself pinch existent dignity. He kept utilizing nan words ‘for nan country’. It matters to us, it matters to him and it matters to nan country. It sounds for illustration a Shakespearean calamity but that’s what it really is successful galore ways.

"Gareth has had his manus successful nan occurrence for 8 years and to person your manus successful nan occurrence for that agelong astatine immoderate constituent it must return its toll connected you, your family and conscionable your outlook connected life successful general."