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da dobrowin： FA chairman David Bernstein has confirmed that the governing body have came up with a shortlist of managers to potentially replace Fabio Capello as England boss.
The Italian coach walked away from his post with the national side in February, and Tottenham’s Harry Redknapp has been the overwhelming favourite to lead the nation to Euro 2012.
However, Bernstein has clarified that the process is moving along, and that a shortlist has been compiled.
“The process is quite clear. The Club England board have been clearly mandated by the FA board to find a new manager for England,” the executive stated at a press conference, documented on Sky Sports.
“At the last board meeting we agreed our intent would be to make a recommendation of one person to the FA board, we won’t be doing lists of people and the nature of people we are going to be looking at focuses on a very small number of high quality people.
“We have now arrived at a number of target names, I would call it a flexible target list because it’s not absolutely fixed in stone and we will react to events depending how events unfold.
“We would intend to deal with this at the back end of the season but it could be earlier, if certain things fell into place and the key appointment came, it could be earlier,” he admitted.
With Chelsea sacking Andre Villas Boas it may turn out that the club side and England are fighting for the same candidates, but this does not worry Bernstein.
“This position is so unique that the right person would want to do it on a sensible basis and for the right reasons.
“It is a very fluid situation, I am not sure if (other clubs searching for managers) helps or hinders. It depends on how the cards fall,” he concluded.
By Gareth McKnight
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