Eddie Howe: England is the 'ultimate job' but I'm staying at Bournemouth
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Updated 29/09/2016 at 07:58 GMT
Eddie Howe has described managing England as “the ultimate job” but insists he is “committed to Bournemouth”.
Bournemouth's English manager Eddie Howe
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Howe is the fifth favourite to replace Sam Allardyce, who left in disgrace this week after being accused in a Daily Telegraph sting of seeking to profit from his role and advising on how to bypass Football Association regulations on third-party ownership.
Just 38, Howe is one of the few rising stars of English coaching and has worked wonders at Bournemouth, taking them into the Premier League for the first time.
He has an impressive reputation and was recently said to be a contender to replace Arsene Wenger as Arsenal manager, but Howe says he is not interested at the moment in taking the leap into the most high-profile sports job in England.
“I'm not interested in the job now," Howe said in a press conference. "I'm absolutely committed here. Nothing has changed from the summer. I need to show them the same loyalty that they showed me. It's all hypothetical.
"Who knows what will happen in the future – you can never predict in football.”
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Bournemouth's English head coach Eddie Howe
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Under-21 boss Gareth Southgate has been appointed caretaker manager for the next four games, including the World Cup qualifiers against Malta, Slovenia and Scotland in October and November.
Southgate is the favourite to land the job on a full-time basis with Steve Bruce, Wenger and Glenn Hoddle also among the leading contenders.
Hargreaves: Howe could win England the World Cup
The Bournemouth boss certainly has support in the game with former England midfielder Owen Hargreaves insistent he could bring the World Cup back to England for the first time since 1966. He told BT Sport this week:
The FA hasn't had a blueprint for success and they now need a long-term vision. Look at Spain and the consistency they've had and even Germany with Joachim Low, they have both had national team mangers for around 10 years. I think England need to do the same they need to have young manager with a very talented group of young players and grow together. There would be less expectation. I think Eddie Howe's side play the right way - he's always brought players up from the lower leagues and developed them, imagine what he could do with our best England players. He would be the perfect fit for the next four to six years. Eventually you could win a major title like a European championship a World Cup in six to eight years time.
Our View
It would be absolutely stupid for Howe to take this job now - and he clearly knows it. Why risk his reputation by taking over a country in turmoil, when the list of managers who have been eaten up and spat out is getting ever longer and longer? With another year or two at Bournemouth he could feasibly land a really big job - those links to Arsenal weren't floated for nothing - but take over England and national disgrace is almost certainly the outcome. Just look at what a spell with England did to Steve McClaren. The England job is one for a coach at the end of their career, not a 38-year-old who has his best achievements ahead of him.
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