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His reasoning is rooted in perspective. \u201cI did that at 35, I finished 11th, 12th. Who is in those positions now, probably Bournemouth, Brighton? I\u2019ve had one of the biggest jobs in world football so I\u2019ve been spoiled. Huge nights, working with outstanding players. No owner interfering.\u201d<\/p>\n
For a coach who guided England to two European Championship finals and a World Cup semi final, the daily grind of club football appears less compelling. The scale of the England role reshaped his professional expectations, and the autonomy it offered clearly left a mark.<\/p>\n
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The conversation intensified after Ruben Amorim\u2019s departure from Manchester United last month. Michael Carrick has taken interim charge, supported by Steve Holland, Southgate\u2019s long time assistant with England. That reunion prompted whispers that Southgate could follow.<\/p>\n
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He has now dismissed that possibility.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe bit that, externally, people are saying is, \u2018well, he didn\u2019t win\u2019. So how do you prove that you can win? You\u2019ve got to go to one of those big clubs,\u201d he explained.<\/p>\n
\u201cNow we know those big clubs\u2026 do I think I could have done the job that some people who have been in those clubs recently have done? Could I do better? I think I could.<\/p>\n
\u201cBut we\u2019ve talked about the baggage that comes with me as an appointment if you\u2019re an owner. And there\u2019s a reality around that, I can understand what that noise is. There\u2019s that bit which makes me potentially a complicated appointment for a club.\u201d<\/p>\n
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Southgate\u2019s stance is not confined to Manchester United. \u201cI don\u2019t want to go and manage a different national team. Club? It\u2019s honestly not what I\u2019m looking to do.<\/p>\n
\u201cNow, two years after leaving England, I\u2019m not actively looking for a role in coaching. If that European final was the bit in coaching I wouldn\u2019t worry about that.<\/p>\n
\u201cBecause there is another 15-20 years of my life ahead of me and I\u2019m excited about a different video, a different movie, a different part of my life.\u201d<\/p>\n
For now, Gareth Southgate and Man United remain separate stories, linked only by speculation rather than intent.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Gareth Southgate Distances Himself from Man United Role Speculation around Gareth Southgate and Man United has swirled in…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":505399,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[440],"tags":[26635,3736,49,48,201523,122738,18884,574,561,82],"class_list":["post-505398","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-soccer","tag-bournemouth","tag-brighton","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-england-manager","tag-gareth-southgate","tag-man-united","tag-premier-league","tag-soccer","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/505398","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=505398"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/505398\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/505399"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=505398"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=505398"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=505398"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}