FA looking to secure Capello for Euro 2012 as Inter Milan show interest

Capello had reached a verbal agreement with Lord Triesman before the former Football Association chairman was forced to resign, 24 hours before England headed to Irdning at the start of their training camp.

Inter Milan president Massimo Moratti has exploited the uncertainty created by Lord Triesman's departure to announce that Capello is top of his own hit-list to replace now-departed treble-winning coach Jose Mourinho.

With an annual salary of 9m being mentioned – 50 per cent more than Capello gets from the FA – talk has increasingly surrounded the 63-year-old, who in fairness has never given any indication of a desire to leave the England job halfway through his four-year contract.

Capello left Graz to see his mother in Italy immediately after yesterday's 2-1 win over Japan. But he is eager to get his future resolved and a resolution should be known at some point in the next 36 hours as Richards makes contact.

"I always say the same things," Capello said.

"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."

That Capello struggled to recollect Richards's name just emphasised the problems that have engulfed the governing body over the past couple of weeks.

However, with Richards's appointment, plus that of 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," said Capello last night.

"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 South Africa next month, he could easily find himself surplus to requirements.

Such is the improvement that has been made since he succeeded Steve McClaren in December 2007, such a scenario is unlikely to unfold, and Bevington has confirmed that is the FA's position.

"We will be speaking with Fabio (this morning) and going over the previous conversations that his advisers had with Lord Triesman about us wanting Fabio to stay until after Euro 2012," Bevington said.

"That is still our position. We have not changed on that whatsoever.

"Clearly there have been changes at the top of the organisation in recent weeks and clearly it is very important to Fabio that he hears that directly from the people who will be leading the England structure going forward.

"Sir David Richards has spoken to Roger Burden, who is the acting chairman of the FA as a whole. Roger, with the rest of the board, has agreed that the Club England structure should be run as previously agreed, with Sir David Richards as chairman of Club England and myself as managing director."