Arsenal boss Arsene Wenger keeps quiet on England job offer talk

Gareth Southgate had to pass through a process before being hired as England manager.

Jurgen Klopp has expressed that he sees nothing wrong with the set up of the English national team and backs them to succeed.

“It’s a style of play that suits the young squad we’ve got”.

Southgate was the FA’s head of elite development from January 2011 until July 2012, when he played a key role in the opening of St George’s Park, and he became the England under-21 manager in August 2013.

There are also no guarantees that Sammy Lee and Martyn Margetson, drafted to the coaching team by Allardyce and retained during Southgate’s temporary stint, will remain.

Southgate repeated at Wembley yesterday that England players could not drink heavily and perform well, and said that if they chose the former they were risking losing their places.

Rooney, 31, apologised after being pictured looking the worse for wear as he mingled with wedding guests at the England team hotel in the early hours during the most recent global break.

His season took another bad turn last month, when was pictured by local newspaper, the Sun looking intoxicated after crashing a wedding while on worldwide duty.

Wenger said Southgate’s permanent appointment came as no surprise to him, but he did admit in September following Allardyce’s dismissal that he could one day be tempted to take charge of the Three Lions.

The five-man panel used summer interviews for Hodgson’s successor as a yardstick to measure the only serious contender for the job, although Football Association chief executive Martin Glenn insists it was no cakewalk for Southgate.

He said “child abuse is a society issue”, but “if the FA have made errors, we will own up to them”.

England are now top of Group F, two points clear of Slovenia. Important to me that we develop more leaders in that group…

He took a significant step towards being appointed full-time manager with a 3-0 win against Scotland in qualifying earlier this month, before his team squandered a 2-0 friendly lead against Spain at Wembley to draw 2-2 four days later.

“Being an England player comes with additional responsibility to being a player playing club football”.

“If we think we’re good enough to play the best teams in the world and give ourselves a slight handicap along the way then good luck with that”.

“We also have players that are very good at pressing and want to press so I think that’s a style of play our supporters will enjoy watching”. We had him individually assessed for mental strength, how he makes decisions under pressure.

Southgate tried his best not to address the controversy directly, rather seeming keen to treat it as an opportunity.

Southgate said: “If I was to give you one bit of detail, it would be that the only time I saw Wayne was at about 10.30pm that night”.

Southgate, meanwhile, has also revealed there is no break clause in his four-year contract worth £1.8m-a-year.

“We have a great of players who are going to develop a lot, so we’re looking not just a short-term but long-term”. “That needs a longer contract than normal”.