Bevington: English influence

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The Football Association have admitted that they would like an 'English influence' in England's new managerial team.

FA chief executive Brian Barwick is scouring the globe in the hunt for Steve McClaren's successor with a number of leading candidates linked with the post.

But it has emerged that the game's governing body are keen to keep a home-grown feel to the coaching team, similar to the set up where McClaren worked under Sven-Goran Eriksson.

FA director of communications Adrian Bevington told talksport: "Brian would very much like to have an English influence around the dressing room and the senior management side of things as well.

"I'm sure there's a way we can make that work."

'Don't rule anybody out'

The chances of the next manager being Fabio Capello or Marcello Lippi have been boosted after Bevington admitted it was not essential the new boss spoke English.

He said "in an ideal world" they would be fluent in the language, but insisted that would not be a bar to anyone's appointment.

He also claimed the FA would have no qualms approaching any manager - such as Martin O'Neill - who have already ruled themselves out of the job.

"Don't rule anybody out until you've actually put the question to them," he said.

Bevington defended the process being used to recruit the new man and insisted there would be no rushed appointment.

He said: "No matter what we do, people will have an opinion. Some people will say we're doing it right, some people will say we're doing it wrong. We can't be affected by that.

"The key thing here is we get the right man.

"It doesn't take a rocket scientist to work out there are several very high-profile managers who have achieved massive success around the world who are currently 'available', so to speak."