England Women manager Phil Neville is set to leave his role next summer due to the delay of the Women's European Championship to 2022, according to his brother Gary Neville.
Neville has enjoyed a successful reign since he succeeded Mark Sampson in January 2018, guiding the Lionesses to fourth place at the World Cup and triumphing in the SheBelieves Cup last year.
The former Manchester United and Everton player's contract with the Football Association has another year to run but with Uefa confirming the Euros will be pushed back due to the coronavirus pandemic, Standard Sport understands Neville will not stay in the role beyond 2021.
And Gary Neville, who works as a pundit for Sky Sports, all but confirmed his younger brother will not be at the helm for the tournament for the revised dates.
"He's got 14 months left on his contract and obviously the Olympics and the European Championships were within that period," he told Sky Sports.
"The problem is now obviously with coronavirus, those tournaments have been taken out of the period and international manager's contracts run to tournament ends.
"If the tournaments have gone, then you've got a real problem obviously in the sense that you're just coaching friendlies. I think that's the situation that's developed."
Neville admitted that his brother was "surprised" about leaked reports over his future and called for the FA to confirm their decision.
"I think Phil was a little bit surprised that it had come out yesterday, but it's out and obviously in football nowadays you accept that journalists have got good contacts and people within organisations are going to speak.
"I would imagine they're going to obviously need to make a statement in the next couple of days to sort of put some clarity around it."
Additional reporting from the Press Association.
