Compensation: Spurs's Daniel Levy

And FA figures are warning against overhyped expectations for a new manager.

'How many good tournaments have we had since 1950?' said Bevington.

'Let's have some reality about this. We have a responsibility as a national association to put the right structure in place to let the coaches across all our teams reach finals and give the senior manager the best chance, getting more players available, better technical players, so that they can go and compete at the latter stages of finals.

'That's why we have to talk long-term and stop just bouncing in between one tournament and another and trying to apologise for why we've not gone past the quarter-finals. We've only been past the quarter-finals three times in our history.
So what gives us the right to say we expect to win a tournament?'

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