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Fabio Capello will be appointed as the next manager of England later on Thursday, BBC Sport understands.

BBC sports editor Mihir Bose says the Italian has been offered a contract to 2010 worth £4m a year, with the option to extend it after the World Cup.

The former AC Milan coach's appointment will be ratified by the Football Association following a conference call involving board members at lunchtime.

The 61-year-old Capello succeeds Steve McClaren, who was sacked in November.


There is no concrete news yet on Capello's assistants, but there is also expected to be some kind of English influence, with Alan Shearer or Stuart Pearce tipped to earn a role in the new managerial set-up.

Former Chelsea boss Jose Mourinho was the initial favourite to take over from McClaren, but he eventually ruled himself out of the running.

The FA quickly turned its attentions to Capello, although World Cup-winning coach Marcello Lippi was also thought to be in contention.

Capello expressed his interest in the job just days after McClaren's departure, describing it as a "beautiful challenge".

He finally met for discussions with FA chief executive Brian Barwick and director of football Sir Trevor Brooking in London on Wednesday.

Those talks were described as "extremely positive" by FA director of communications Adrian Bevington.

Capello has a hugely impressive CV and comes with the backing of such football luminaries as Sir Alex Ferguson, Arsene Wenger, Gianfranco Zola and Clarence Seedorf.

They are full of praise for his achievements, qualifications and standing in the game.

   
He would rather have less quality but committed players rather than quality players who are not committed

Seedorf on Capello

"One of his major qualities is to get the best out of his players, to make sure everyone is committed to the team's goals," said Seedorf, who played under Capello at Real Madrid.

"He is very, very specific in what he wants and very clear what he wants from every player.

"Sometimes he really pushes you to the limits and that, of course, has proven effective.

"When the focus is on the training, then he really expects 100% and not less.

"He would rather have less quality but committed players rather than quality players who are not committed.

"But he is also very experienced with great players and is able to get the best out of them."

Capello has enjoyed success in both Italy and Spain.

He has won nine league titles in 16 years as a coach, picking up silverware with all four clubs - AC Milan, Real Madrid, Roma and Juventus - he has been in charge of.

He won the Champions League with Milan in 1994 and was also an accomplished player, winning 32 caps for Italy.

McClaren paid the price for England's failure to reach next year's European Championships.



your early predictions please? good appointment?

Good manager.  Dodgy bloke by all accounts, but a top-notch manager.

Predictions?  England 2010 World Champions.

;D

Can't complain, anyone that wants the job would have done, but to get someone that wants it and has a great track record is terrific. 

Great appointment, let's hope he can sort our side out.

I'm optimistic (but then I always am)

He certainly won't let anyone else interfere with him team selection.

Wonder how long before the media turn on him?

They've already started...

http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/topstories/2007/12/12/england-target-is-fan-of-fascist-89520-20237389/

LMAO @ this appointment.

Capello plays boring footie...win at all costs is what he says....He is a boring man..and gets paid an absolute fortune.

Maybe you shouldn't have sacked Sven?

Speaks the Dutch guy who's team have bundles of flair (and all hate each other) but win nothing either!!

As long as he makes us a winning team, it doesn't really matter if hes boring or not.

His record is good, he should still be at Real Madrid IMO, as he won the league with them then got sacked. Madrids presidents are wierd like that though.

Good appointment

Rather us play dull footy and win, than dull footy and lose.

then why sack Sven?

actually..under Van Basten the team has no flair, loves eachother and scrape 1-0's against everybody. I want the good old days of fair hatred and losing when playing the beaufitull game back..at least that way if you lose you watched a good game.

Excellent track record, proven winner are the pluses.

He can't speak English if im not mistaken, has the ability to rub people up the wrong way, the press will be on his back from the get go and he is about as un media friendly as you can get. Plays very boring football.

All in all, as long we win games under him, which seems likely I will be happy. A much better appointment than Mc Claren so there is hope.

As I said in another thread   ------      Grinding winning football >>>>>>>>>>> Exciting losing football...

Even the greatest ring master cant work unless the animals have the ability to do what he wants them to do.

The winning bit.

easy!

Really? QF (x2) and SF of the WC and EC is no disgrace...what do you expect (seriously) that Capello can do with this England side?..you really don't have that great a team

Scraping through qualifiers.  Inept tactical decisions.  Dull and ineffective football.  Matches drawn or won only through moments of brilliance or sheer luck.  Continuing to play players who are injured, or way below being match fit.  Insistence on playing players out of position.  Reluctance to bring in in-form players.  Ridiculous use of friendlies with 98130984758743258 substitutions. 

I can guarantee that Capello will be better than Sven and his ghost.

its going to be hard for any future manager of england, first thing is to bring some confidence back into the team, theres a lot of top players playing brilliant for there clubs,as soon as they put an england shirt on they go to pieces, never mind formations and style we will never do anything till the players stop playing scared, capellos knows how to handle pressure,if he can pass this on to the england squad we could start playing like a team again, that could be the 1 quality he has since robson and venables

Capello's got the mentality of winning. He's won wherever hes been. Id love to see England play like Argentina/Brazil, great flare etc but thats not going to happen, we are not born with that special ability, we dont have a messi/kaka/riquelme.

So we have play like a team, which without the flare maybe boring but if we win and works, everyone will be saying how good a team we are.

On the Sven topic, he had a good record in big matches in tournaments, but the fans/press are never happy unless we win something....hopefully Capello can change that.

We scraped through qualifying tournaments, and then stumbled our way to elimination in the big tournaments.  Again, he's pick the wrong team (players playing in strange positions, in strange formations, with injured players on the pitch and in-form players on the bench or not in the squad at all). 

I agree it was time for a change when Sven went, i just mean people need to give Capello a chance, then decide for themselves based on the results.

I just want to know one thing.

does he prefer cake or biscuits?

Pasta. With Cake.

...and how does he prefer his PAs?

Pasta. with Cake.

A brilliant coup for the FA.

Arguably the most successful manager still managing today.

He's been hounded for advice at football manager conventions by some really good young managers like Benitez and Mourinho in recent years and often swapped notes with Lippi and Ferguson. Everyone in the game has spoken highly of him. Tony Adams has spoken about how highly Harry Redknapp rates him and how told him to talk to him as much as possible last summer. Benitez said similar things a few years back.

Definately the best choice available.  His playing style is tactically very astute, some would call it dull, it's very Arrigo Saachi-esque, ie "intensity of play" - breaking up the opponents play before playing themselves (like Mourinho and Benitez - both have called Saachi and Capello's style "nearly perfect") but it wins.

Also missed of Tighty's CV of him is the fact that he made 3 consecutive European Cup finals with Milan (admittedly losing two of them) - so he knows knock-out competition football pretty damn well too.

All in all - the best England could have hoped for.

All that means is that Redknapp once did a deal with him and got thrown a couple of £'s.. ;)

LOL! Judging by Cappello's alleged past you're probably right!

I find it very amusing that people simply do not recognise the sheer luck factor that is within International football. Especially their massive donkament tournaments i.e The World Cup and The European Championships.

LOL Donkaments.

Absolutely.  Just like an MTT.

But you try and stack the odds in your favour - and Sven (for the points I mentioned earlier) just didn't do that.

Can anyone explain why te England manager needs to make 120k a week?..especially after he already said he wanted the job before he was even asked?

The man's got a £10m art collection to upkeep you know!

fair point..though he only had to complete three transfers to afford the collection...*alledgedly* :)

but just as in mtts, your variance goes down the bigger the sample, 5 each for brazil and italy, surely we would have got lucky once more if that was such a big factor?

We are like the weak tight pushbot just waiting to shove hands, eventually one of them doesn't hold up in most tournaments.

To be honest Im pretty underwhelmed by him. The thing that worries me is I cant remember many players coming from Italian football and being a success in England. I can recall a one or two English players going to Italy and having their careers stall and their ability decline. The game and mentality is just so different that I fear it might not work out.

How long before we're all chanting "boring boring England" ?

Prob not too long Ralph but I am deffo in the winning anyway you can camp, Ive watchged Sheff Utd for so long Ive forgotten what its like to see entertainment AND winning at the same time ;o)

He has the personality and credentials to motivate and coach our under-performing millionaires boys-club. I predict great things.

Im looking forward to seeing his first XI  i expect some big changes

He wins stuff - that will do for me

Is he from Swansea?

he will probably build a team around emile heskey & Titus Bramble !!

If only spurs had some good young englishman that he could pick

What about Zola, Vialli, Ravanelli, Di Matteo, Gullit, Desailly, Bergkamp, Henry? All came from the Italian league and all excelled in the premiership.

I think we've been very lucky to get such a quality manager.

He's all about winning trophies and getting the maximum from all his players. He has the world's respect. He's used to dealing with the scummy tabloid press. He's used to handling superstar footballers as well as immense pressure and expectation. All in all his credentials are outstanding.

If we don't play super flair football, I'm not bothered.

Great appointment FA, for once they got it right!

England are boring anyway, I'd rather be watching a boring England side winning than a boring England side losing.

Liverpool you mean?

@rse you mean

excellent manager. same old shite to work with tho.

sven is proving at the moment that if you have good players he can make them play excellent football.

Man city were quality today and have had a great season so far from what i've seen.

I blame the england players for their lack of success.

Good Luck tho.

A Scotsman saying England have "shite players" rotflmfao

I'd listen to him..noone recognises shit players like a Scot..they watch shit footieweek in week out and should be expert on that subject.
:)

Sven has the ability to work with probably 90% of the world's players at City with the money and reputation he has.

The problem that he had with England is that he has a finite amount of players to choose from. Capello faces the same problem but the difference is he wont be afraid to chop the superstars.