Tottenham boss Harry Redknapp does not think the England job is one for a young manager.
The White Hart Lane chief is the favourite to succeed Fabio Capello and he believes it is a task for an 'older man'.
Redknapp certainly fits that criteria, having recently turned 65, and he has in the past made no secret of his desire to manage his country.
He said: "I suppose there's not a million candidates, you know, Roy Hodgson and Sam Allardyce and whoever.
"Capello did okay, for sure - bad World Cup (in 2010) - but we haven't really torn up any trees, so why not give it to somebody from here."
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"And there's some young managers like Nigel Adkins and people like that, who in the future, I'm sure, would be fantastic, but, at the moment, probably too young.
"It is an older man's job, I think. It's not a job for a young guy."
Speculation
Redknapp added: "I said all along I think it needs an English manager. I think we need to give somebody a go. We've not achieved anything with foreign managers.
"Capello did okay, for sure - a bad World Cup (in 2010) - but we haven't really torn up any trees, so why not give it to somebody from here."
Redknapp reiterated he had yet to be approached by the Football Association and remained determined not to let the speculation distract him.
He said: "It's a great job, obviously, to be manager of your country.
"It's difficult. At the moment, I've got a job to do at Tottenham and suddenly we've lost a couple of games.
"I've got to really keep concentrating on my job at Tottenham, which I do 100 per cent, and see what happens at the end of the year.
"Tottenham is my only focus, really. I want to make sure we get Champions League football this year."
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If your giving 100% to Tottenham Harry, why are you talking about England again, have you not heard of the words no comment
Just giving the FA a little reminder are we, that your still out there waiting for their call
And you call us dumb
Harry at it again
posted on 14/3/12
The rumour was £25k plus Drogba.
posted on 14/3/12
Think i have reached that point
You know what he is doing, if he gets it he is off and dont really care if we get top 4, if he dont get offered it he will say he was going to stay at spurs out of loyalty
posted on 14/3/12
That his one slippery manager.
But has he met his match with Daniel Levy.?
posted on 14/3/12
Paul I think you're bring a little immature in all this.
We are on a bad run, it happens.
It would be wrong to start moaning about HR and apportioning blame for all and sundry.
Tottenham as an institution needs to meet challenges and overcome them and our fans need to grow some and realise that when things go wrong, which they do, it's not accurate or fair to merely substitute rational reasoning for why things have gone wrong, with ill thought out and unjustifiable emotion based rants blaming Harry, Bale's newly found big time Charlie ego and whatever else that wasn't a problem before, but suddenly now is.
posted on 14/3/12
1 Team in NL
There are two sides to every coin. You might be right in that we can't suddenly blame Harry for everything. But in that case we shouldn't we giving him the credit for it either.
We all know football management is a results game nowadays and (as AVB knows all too well) whatever your pedigree if it doesn't happen on the pitch the manager is culpable. We all know of Harry's flaws and many of have spoken about them before.
Could it be his flaws are covered because we've got great players, or that the player's flaws are discovered when Harry's distracted? It's a matter of opinion
posted on 14/3/12
Fully agree Bales. All I'm saying is that it's immature to start crying and bleating about everything that wasn't a problem when we were winning, but suddenly now is.
Some people on here sound like g00ooners- ie plastic
posted on 15/3/12
comment by 1 Team in NL (U10926) posted 9 hours, 24 minutes ago
Paul I think you're bring a little immature in all this.
We are on a bad run, it happens.
It would be wrong to start moaning about HR and apportioning blame for all and sundry.
ill thought out and unjustifiable emotion based rants blaming Harry
Are you for real
You show me where i have blamed Harry for all and sundry ?
How is this ill thought out, these are Harrys words not mine
I want him to concentrate on Tottenham Hotspur ,not keep reminding the FA that he is up for the job of managing England
You will not find one comment on here from me calling Bale a big time charlie or about his diving, i have defended him 100%, but i want to see him playing on the left with freedom to come inside , not on the bloody right wing
Why is it immature in your eyes to question our manager when he is constanly talking about another job when we are coming u to the biggest part of our season ?
As for nothing being a problem when we were winning, Harry had not been touted for the England job
And as for calling me a plastic or a gooner. you can feck off mate
posted on 15/3/12
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posted on 15/3/12
Paul
Calm down I wasn't calling you a plastic at all. So no need to tell me to feck off- OK?!
My comments were based on recent posts on here that are so negative in nature (I include my own in that).
They generally are so reactionary to the defeats which is understandable.
But we all seem to be clutching at anything that is said or commented on now and using it to justify our poor run.
Let's not do that from now on. Let's just focus on getting behind the team. Our rivals want absolutely nothing more than us to feel the England job is scuppering our chances. It is not.
We've played 3 games we always had a fair chance of losing and guess what?- we lost them. Yes I know we all thought we were better than that this year but guess what?- we aren't. We were ridiculously hyped up largely by the media, and we are sadly a media driven society which is too powerful because it influences public sentiment.
I posted recently that we had to be careful because if you break down our away record, you would certainly expect us to lose the games we did.
So we lost them because of that and generally poor tactics in those games. Not to do with the England job. Even if you feel that, do not arm our rivals with the momentum they need.
We are still ahead and we can easily start winning again just as we started losing.
posted on 15/3/12
No worries mate, took your comments the wrong way
Hopefully a weeks rest will of done the players the world of good and they will come out all guns blazing on saturday