Gareth Southgate ready for anything after pressures of England job

Gareth Southgate has insisted there is no job in world football that would daunt him after the pressures he has experienced being manager of England.

At next summer's Euro 2024 finals in Germany, Southgate will be in charge of England for a fourth consecutive major tournament where his team will again be among the favourites to lift the trophy.

In that time, England reached the last four of the 2018 World Cup, final of the delayed Euro 2020 and quarter-finals at last year's World Cup in Qatar.

The 53-year-old’s current deal with the Football Association expires next December and it is unclear what the future holds.

But after seven years in charge of the Three Lions, Southgate believes he is ready for anything that the football world has to throw at him.

“You're not going to have any higher profile, you're not going to have any greater pressure, you're not going to have any more complex issues,” he said in an interview with Sky Sports.

Southgate's managerial experience at club level is limited to three years in charge of Middlesbrough between 2006 and 2009 where he guided the north-east club to two mid-table Premier League finishes before being relegated in his final season.

He then spent four years coaching England Under-21s before replacing Sam Allardyce as manager of the senior team in October 2016.

“I was 35 years old when I managed in the Premier League and we finished 12th and 13th,” Southgate said.

“I knew nothing like what I know now. There isn’t a job in world football that would intimidate or daunt you, having lived this one.

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“Everybody would talk about Middlesbrough. 'Oh, he got Middlesbrough relegated'. Well, yeah, in the third year, we got