Griezmann wins Euro 2016 best player award

FAW chief executive Jonathan Ford admits he can not force Coleman to see out his contract if he is adamant he wants to return to club management, but is not anxious about that happening.

Chris Coleman’s side surpassed all expectations by making it to the semi-finals in France before falling to eventual champions Portugal in the last four. I want to see this through.

“I can’t make him do the job”, Ford told BBC Radio 5 live.

“There are procedures and there are policies in place with regards to that happening, but let’s hope it doesn’t”.

Overall, I think the format should be changed back to allow only 16 teams to qualify for the European Championship finals as, although the increased scale of the competition allows underdogs a greater chance of success, it makes playing nice football less rewarding for teams.

Ronaldo was the clear-cut pick for the second best fantasy performance among Euro 2016 forwards as he finished the tournament with three goals and three assists despite having his final cut short because of a knee injury.

The 46-year-old is contracted until the end of the next World Cup in Russian Federation, though the former Fulham boss has expressed a desire to manage overseas one day.

“We don’t know yet but at the moment it’s the format we’re looking at because it’s been very positive”, he said. This made numerous games very tedious to watch and meant that teams which tried to play attractive football were not always rewarded with victories.

Wales begin their bid to qualify for the World Cup at home to Moldova on September 5, with Coleman expecting this to be his last tilt at an worldwide tournament. Although he only made cameo appearances from the bench in the group stages, the former Benfica midfielder was named man of the match after scoring and playing all 120 minutes in the quarter-final penalty shoot-out victory over Poland.