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Gareth Southgate has admitted he decided to step down as England manager ahead of the Three Lions’ defeat to Spain in the Euro 2024 final.
Confirmation of Southgate’s departure came just two days later England came to the final hurdle In Europe’s premier competition, a long search for a replacement has finally led the Football Association to former Chelsea and Bayern Munich boss Thomas Tuchel.
During an appearance on the BBC Desert Island Disc, Southgate admitted he listened to Adele ‘Someone Like You’ To help him come to terms with his decision to leave England during Euro 2024.
“I kept playing him until the end of the last Euros, because I knew I was going,” Southgate said.
“I had made up my mind that it was a time of change on all sides and there were so many words in it that even if I heard it today it had to do with my relationship with England and their relationship with me, and how I was about all that. really feel
“Like how they have to move on and you wish them well and have regrets, and really make memories. There are a lot of lines in that that really resonated with me.”
Southgate has been heavily linked Returned to management with a whole host of Premier League sides including Manchester UnitedBut insisted he did not want to return to work.
“The fact (England) is one of the biggest jobs, I think, I wanted to give myself more time to talk to a lot of interesting people who are in big jobs and then find out what they did. ” Southgate explained.
“I don’t want to betray their confidence, but people have been so generous in sharing and talking about those things, and they’ve all said, ‘Don’t rush it.’
“I’ve been a player and a coach for 37 years, and I’m not opposed to the next period of my life being totally different. When you have the biggest job, how do you follow it?”
