England Football Manager Gareth Southgate describes rumours surrounding the next Manchester United manager as “irrelevant” as he says his focus is on “having as successful a tournament with England as possible”. Report by Ajagbef. Like us on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/itn and follow us on Twitter at http://twitter.com/itn
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00:00 Well, I'm not a big gambling man but bookies, yeah, they can make their odds but it's not
00:08 conversations that's been had with me. I've got one thing to focus on and that's having
00:14 as successful a tournament with England as possible and everything else outside of that
00:19 is a complete irrelevance for me.
00:21 You wouldn't rule out down the line going back to a club to manage it, to be a head
00:25 coach?
00:26 No, I wouldn't rule that out but I think the country would expect that my focus is
00:31 on England and rightly so.
00:33 Our aim is to win and it's for other people to decide what's success, what's failure.
00:40 Ultimately because of the progress we've made over the five, six years we've been so close
00:46 that our mindset as a team has to be to go there to win the tournament.
00:49 I think in the forward areas we've got more depth than we've had previously. That's the
00:53 area of the pitch where it's probably the toughest to make the decisions in terms of
00:58 some players that are very good players are going to miss out.
01:01 How's your German?
01:02 Bang average.
01:03 But there is some that you have been learning it, is that right?
01:08 Well I've got an app that I'm struggling by and I'm slowly building a small vocabulary.
01:14 I won't ask you to say any now unless you want to.
01:17 Well no, because I don't think finding the tube station is going to really help us at
01:21 this point.
01:22 I would find it very strange to sit and watch a play that somebody is playing me in the
01:30 middle of it. I think it's a pretty positive reflection on the team but it doesn't mean
01:36 I necessarily want to go and watch.