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		</div><p>Gareth Southgate has insisted the time was right for him to quit as England manager and that he has no regrets about his eight years in charge.</p>
<p>The 54-year-old stepped down following England’s defeat by Spain in the Euro 2024 final in July.</p>
<p>Southgate led the country to back-to-back European finals and the semi-finals of the World Cup in 2018, but he was criticised in some quarters for his defensive tactics.</p>
<p>“I think it was probably the right time for change,” he told Sky News.</p>
<figure id="attachment_183844" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-183844" style="width: 640px" class="wp-caption alignnone"><img src="https://londonglossy.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/C5010E7D-C3C1-4D05-8871-751760D05490.webp" alt="" width="640" height="456" class="size-full wp-image-183844" /><figcaption id="caption-attachment-183844" class="wp-caption-text">England suffered more European Championship heartbreak.</figcaption></figure>
<p>“I don’t think you can have regrets. We made decisions with the information we had at the time to try and produce a winning team.</p>
<p>“We raised expectations and that was important. We needed to put English football back on the map.”</p>
<p>Southgate’s replacement, interim boss Lee Carsley, has overseen Nations League wins over the Republic of Ireland and Finland in his first two games at the helm.</p>
<p>Match of the Day host and former England striker Gary Lineker was among Southgate’s harshest critics and he aimed another dig this week.</p>
<figure id="attachment_184361" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-184361" style="width: 640px" class="wp-caption alignnone"><img src="https://londonglossy.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/09/IMG_6273.webp" alt="" width="640" height="432" class="size-full wp-image-184361" /><figcaption id="caption-attachment-184361" class="wp-caption-text">Jack Grealish impressed on his England return</figcaption></figure>
<p>After Anthony Gordon, Jack Grealish and Trent Alexander-Arnold – players Southgate either did not pick or discarded – impressed in Ireland, Lineker said on the Rest is Football podcast: “We told you so!”</p>
<p>However, Southgate responded: “I’ve really shut myself off from everything since I left. There’s no point in me talking about the team now.</p>
<p>“It’s for me to let other people take over, to give them the space to go and take the team on to the next challenges.</p>
<p>“There’s no point in me getting involved in anything like that.”</p>
<p>Southgate, who was linked with Manchester United last season, says he is not going to rush any decisions about his future.</p>
<p>The former Middlesbrough boss said: “I’ve got lots of opportunities, I’m very open-minded to what’s next.</p>
<p>“That might be in football, that might be outside of football. I’m just going to take some time, refresh, recharge and go from there.</p>
<p>“I think at the moment people know that I need to get my energy back.”</p>
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