'No approaches' for Southgate - FA chief

FA main executive Mark Bullingham says he has received "no approaches" for England head Gareth Southgate, but hinted that nan governing assemblage has a "succession plan" if he leaves.

Southgate's statement is owed to expire successful December aft 8 years successful charge, and he has powerfully suggested that nonaccomplishment to triumph Euro 2024 could spot nan extremity of his tenure.

The 53-year-old has been linked pinch a imaginable move to Manchester United, though nan nine has decided to support head Erik 10 Hag pursuing a post-season review.

"We are sitting down aft nan tourney together and will talk astir everything," said Bullingham, erstwhile asked if he was keen for Southgate to stay successful his role.

"Gareth has been really clear that he wants to talk astir that aft nan tournament.

"I don’t want to supply immoderate distraction for him and nan team. I want to respect [that].

"I would opportunity I deliberation nan world of Gareth, I deliberation he has done a phenomenal job.

"I deliberation he has transformed nan fortunes of our team, and that’s not conscionable disconnected nan pitch, and you tin spot nan culture, but besides nan performances connected nan pitch.

"Since 1966, he has won astir half of our knockout games, which is simply a measurement we really use, truthful we worth him massively."

Southgate has taken his broadside to nan 2018 World Cup semi-finals, nan Euro 2020 last and nan 2022 World Cup quarter-finals successful Qatar.

However he told German newspaper Bild that Euro 2024 could beryllium his "last chance" to triumph a trophy pinch England.

Bullingham denied speaking to immoderate imaginable successors, but said: "I’ve seen immoderate things astir person we sewage a plan, aliases haven’t we.

"Any organisation really has a succession scheme successful spot for their apical employees, and we are nary different to that.

"That’s really each I want to opportunity connected that topic. Just because I want to respect Gareth and nan team. They are very focused connected nan tournament, and we want to beryllium supporting them pinch that focus. Clearly, you scheme tons of different scenarios for each your apical labor each nan time."

When asked if Southgate’s early would dangle connected really England did successful Germany, Bullingham said: "I cognize why group would emotion for location to ever beryllium a really arbitrary level. But I don't deliberation you tin group 1 for immoderate tourney pinch immoderate head that you judge, because you could spell further but beryllium playing poorly, aliases person a really unlucky consequence wherever you get a mates of reddish cards.

"So I deliberation mounting an arbitrary fig isn't nan correct measurement to go. I deliberation we measurement backmost and look astatine everything aft nan tournament, spot really he feels, spot really we consciousness and spot really nan tourney has gone."

When asked if he would want immoderate successor to beryllium a homegrown manager, Bullingham said: "We person 2 elder coaches. One of them is English, 1 of them [England women’s leader Sarina Wiegman] is not. Any federation successful nan world would ever want to person a excavation of apical homegrown talent playing and managing astatine immoderate time."

England’s opening Euros lucifer against Serbia successful Gelsenkirchen connected Sunday has been deemed high-risk, pinch section constabulary expressing interest astir nan imaginable for violence, and fans restricted to low-alcohol brew astatine nan stadium.

"It is not thing I would person a viewpoint connected because evidently that is down to nan constabulary and Uefa," said Bullingham.

"It is arsenic overmuch to do pinch nan stadium and nan vicinity arsenic thing else. But that’s their call.

"I would opportunity that our fans [at nan Germany World Cup] successful 2006 were nan fans of nan tourney and complete nan past fewer years we’ve shown our fans person been awesome supporters of nan squad and behaved well.

"There will beryllium a batch of fans, and a batch of fans who haven’t travelled earlier because nan past mates of tournaments away, we’ve had little than 5,000 fans, truthful it is simply a different dynamic. But our fans person been really bully successful nan past mates of years, superb support for america and we dream that continues.

"The champion point that nan fans tin do to thief america do good successful this tourney is beryllium a tribute to their country…the German constabulary person proved they are really bully astatine policing shot tournaments, truthful there’s nary logic why that shouldn’t beryllium nan lawsuit again. But really nan main connection is, ‘get down nan squad and support successful nan correct way’."