Arsenal manager Arsene Wenger insists international management is not for him but feels the England job could be done part-time in the short term.
Tottenham boss Harry Redknapp is being widely tipped as the replacement for Fabio Capello, who resigned his post in charge of the national team on Wednesday night following the Football Association's decision to strip John Terry of the captaincy while he contests a charge of racially abusing QPR defender Anton Ferdinand.
Redknapp has led Spurs back into the top three of the Barclays Premier League and there have been suggestions the 64-year-old could take on dual roles through to the summer's European Championship in Poland and Ukraine.
Frenchman Wenger is now part of the English football establishment, having transformed the Gunners since his arrival in September 1996, and the experienced 62-year-old's name always gets mentioned when the vacancy at the top occurs.
Wenger, however, stands by his views the next boss must be home grown.
"England is a big football country with over 65 million people who have a big passion for the game. I love England and I want England to do well. Therefore I let the FA deal with that problem," he said.
Asked whether the job could be done alongside working in the Premier League, Wenger added: "On a short-term (basis) yes, in the long term, no."
The Arsenal manager continued: "I have never really been tempted by the national team job because for me it is a completely different job.
"I was always under contract, I respected contracts in my life. I am a little bit in a marathon job inside the club and the national team job is a sprinter's job.
"Maybe I have not enough quick fibres, but I am more interested in a day-to-day basis job.
"(Being a national team manager) is completely different; it is more PR, more communication, there is less impact on the footballing side and less impact on building the team because if you have a good generation in the country then you can do well and if you don't you can do nothing. In a club you always have ways to build a team."
Wenger claimed he had "ruled myself out of many national team jobs" down the years, but has again been linked with taking over at the helm in France.
The Arsenal manager added: "In the future I don't know (whether I would ever manage a national team) because what I do now demands a lot of physical power and to be super fit physically, that might not always be the case."
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