{"id":803158,"date":"2026-10-15T07:28:09","date_gmt":"2026-10-15T07:28:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/803158\/"},"modified":"2026-10-15T07:28:09","modified_gmt":"2026-10-15T07:28:09","slug":"gareth-southgate-former-england-boss-unlikely-to-return-to-club-management","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/803158\/","title":{"rendered":"Gareth Southgate: Former England boss unlikely to return to club management"},"content":{"rendered":"

Former England manager Gareth Southgate says he does not see himself returning to club management in the Premier League.<\/p>\n

The 56-year-old has been out of management since resigning as Three Lions boss after guiding them to the final of Euro 2024, where they lost to Spain.<\/p>\n

Southgate, who also took England to the Euro 2020 final, has not managed at club level since a three-year spell with Middlesbrough from 2006.<\/p>\n

When asked if he would consider a return to managing in the Premier League, he told The Amol Rajan Connection podcast: “I don’t see a scenario where I do that.”<\/p>\n

He added: “Towards the end of my time with England, I stopped enjoying, at the very least for a period, the wins keep you going. <\/p>\n

“By the end, I didn’t even enjoy the wins for any longer than a couple of minutes. So, I’ve hardly watched football.<\/p>\n

“I went to the FA Cup final to see my team, Crystal Palace<\/a>, win their first trophy. I’ve not been to a football ground since. So my sort of desire to be involved in football has changed.”<\/p>\n

Since leaving the England role, Southgate has also spent time working in the media and earlier this year he fronted a BBC documentary where he travelled across the UK to understand challenges facing young men and boys.<\/p>\n

He has also spent time as a visiting lecturer at Harvard Business School in Boston.<\/p>\n

“I’ve loved the last 18 months of my life,” he added. <\/p>\n

“I’ve had 37 years where my sense of self depended on did I win or lose on Saturday. And actually I’ve loved having different experiences. I’ve met politicians, I’ve met people in the media industry, I have learned about leadership in all sorts of areas, I’ve travelled around the world learning things. <\/p>\n

“I’ve just enjoyed playing a different film in my life.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Former England manager Gareth Southgate says he does not see himself returning to club management in the Premier…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":803159,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[218,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-803158","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-football","tag-football","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/803158","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=803158"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/803158\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/803159"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=803158"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=803158"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=803158"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}