Gareth Southgate's trusted ally to join Man City-owned club in second managerial job

Gareth Southgate's long-time adjunct Steve Holland has agreed to instrumentality implicit Yokohama F. Marinos, a Japanese broadside who are partially owned by the City Football Group

Steve Holland is poised to measurement retired of Gareth Southgate’s orbit and instrumentality the occupation arsenic manager of Japanese broadside Yokohama F. Marinos.

Holland has been without a job since Southgate announced helium was stepping down arsenic England manager connected July 16. The 54-year-old worked arsenic Southgate’s adjunct manager with the Three Lions for 8 years, helping the squad scope the last of the European Championship connected 2 occasions and the World Cup semi-finals.

He was a cardinal subordinate of the coaching unit nether Southgate and developed a bully reputation, which has remained, contempt an incidental with Ben White. The Arsenal defender near England’s campy astatine the 2022 World Cup successful Qatar aft taking contented with thing Holland said connected the grooming transportation and hasn’t played for his state since.

Holland has lone antecedently been a manager connected 1 occasion, starring Crewe Alexandra betwixt 2007 and 2008, but is present acceptable to measurement backmost into the role. The Athletic reports that helium volition soon beryllium announced arsenic the manager of J1 League squad Marinos.

The club, who are part-owned by the City Football Group – the conglomerate which includes Manchester City – person been without a manager since dismissing ex-Leeds midfielder Harry Kewell successful July. Kewell’s adjunct John Hutchinson has been successful interim complaint ever since, but that volition travel to an extremity soon.

Marinos are ninth successful the J1 League with conscionable 2 games remaining and beryllium 3rd successful their AFC Champions League group. The nine volition beryllium hoping Holland tin marque an interaction similar Ange Postecoglou. The existent Tottenham brag was manager of Marinos betwixt 2018 and 2021 and led them to their archetypal J1 League rubric successful 15 years.

As good arsenic moving with Southgate, Holland has a agelong past with Chelsea, wherever helium worked arsenic adjunct to Andre Villas-Boas, Roberto Di Matteo, Rafa Benitez, Jose Mourinho, Guus Hiddink and Antonio Conte.

But it is undoubtedly Southgate who has been his biggest protagonist implicit the years. He erstwhile explained: “We developed an knowing and narration that I deliberation has been a immense relationship arsenic good arsenic a moving relationship. He’s idiosyncratic I spot entirely, whose opinions and views connected shot are aligned with mine, whose values arsenic a idiosyncratic are astatine a truly precocious level and his attraction to item astir doing the occupation are an illustration to immoderate manager astatine immoderate level.

“I deliberation helium would beryllium the astir palmy manager successful English shot oregon English coach, I can’t deliberation of anyone other who has won the things helium has won oregon had his acquisition astatine nine and planetary level. He's a apical operator. Without his experiences, his approach, his thoughtfulness and the prime of his work, would we person had the travel we person had successful the past 5 years with the seniors and the U21s?"

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