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Fabio 'focused only on World Cup'
Fabio Capello will meet the Football Association on Monday for talks that are expected to lead to him committing his future to England as manager.
The Italian has been heavily linked with a summer move to Inter Milan.
And though his England deal runs until 2012, it contains a clause that allows Capello to quit after the World Cup.
But having made a verbal agreement with ex-Football Association chairman Lord Triesman to stay on beyond Euro 2012, Capello is keen to end speculation.
He will speak to Sir David Richards, chairman of the newly formed Club England board, and a resolution should be known at some point in the next 48 hours.
"I always say the same things," said Capello in response to questions about his future following England's 2-1 friendly win over Japan in Graz.
"My name is always in the newspapers. My name has been on the radio but I can't say anything about it. I have not spoken with anyone from Inter Milan.
"I spoke with the first chairman [Lord Triesman]. Now I wait to speak to the other one. I need to speak with the new chairman of Club England, Sir David Richards."
Triesman was forced to resign earlier this month after what he referred to as his "entrapment" by the Mail on Sunday newspaper.
But just prior to Lord Triesman's departure, Capello was widely believed to be ready to rip up a clause in his current deal that allows either the Italian or the Football Association to end the contract early this summer.
Triesman's departure therefore threw Capello's position into confusion and opened the door to reports that the 63-year-old could head to Inter after the World Cup as a replacement for Real Madrid-bound Jose Mourinho.
However, with the appointment of Richards, plus that of communications chief Adrian Bevington, who has been confirmed as Club England's new managing director with immediate effect, some clarity has been brought to the situation.
Capello now hopes his own future can be confirmed before his team depart for their World Cup adventure on Wednesday evening.
"The situation will be clear in two days when I will have spoken with Sir David Richards," added Capello. "I shook the hand of Lord Triesman but I have not written anything."
In any conversation about his contract, Capello always qualifies it with the claim that should England fail to match expectations in the finals in South Africa, which start on 11 June, he could easily find himself surplus to requirements.
Such is the improvement that has been made since he succeeded Steve McClaren in December 2007, though, such a scenario is unlikely to unfold.
And Bevington has confirmed that is the FA's position.
"We will be speaking with Fabio tomorrow [Monday] morning and going over the previous conversations that his advisers had with Lord Triesman about us wanting Fabio to stay until after Euro 2012," stated Bevington.
"That is still our position. We have not changed on that whatsoever."
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