Fabio Capello has given an insight into how he sees the future England as he picks over the ashes of his team’s FIFA World Cup™ exit. The England manager, who says he wants to stay in the post, has been told he must wait two weeks before his employers, the Football Association (FA), decide whether he will complete the two remaining years of his current contract, which takes him up to the end of the UEFA EURO 2012 finals.

But the Italian is already discussing ways of refreshing his team for the EURO 2012 qualifiers after seeing the way his experienced side, many of whom have played in two or even three previous major tournaments, failed to deliver.

With typical self confidence the former AC Milan, Juventus, Roma and Real Madrid manager feels he did everything right to prepare his team but was let down by his players, particularly in a 4-1 last-16 exit against Germany which was England’s biggest FIFA World Cup finals defeat.

Now, his own future aside, the biggest debate in England is which players should be dropped and who should be brought in to rescue English football from yet another low point. Capello was, as expected, tight-lipped on the former of those two questions but happy to discuss the players who could potentially be drafted in for a new era next season.

“We talked about this with my staff,” he said. “I think we will find two or three new players, probably, for the EURO. Adam Johnson, the Arsenal left-back Kieran Gibbs. Also Michael Dawson, although he is not young. Also Gabriel Agbonlahor and Bobby Zamora, who was injured this time. And another player we will hope will be fit is Owen Hargreaves.

“The best young players are in the under 21s and are not ready to play here at the World Cup. But I hope in the next year or six months people will come through. I hope Theo Walcott will be back and his shoulder is ok. And Jack Wilshere is another interesting player. I hope some good players will be ready in six months, it’s possible.”

Capello, who also hinted at a big future for goalkeeper Joe Hart, knows his brave new world with England will be subject to the same restrictions and problems that affected the current squad, however. With only 38 per cent of players in the Premier League eligible to play for England the talent pool remains shallow and the intense, physical nature of the league means injuries and tiredness are par for the course.

“I know a lot of things about the players and what happened,” insisted Capello as he made a case for two more years in charge. “I know more now than before because I realised what happened when we arrived at the World Cup. I understand more things. And I understand one thing really important, I understand why England didn’t win before. The England players arrive at the end of the season tired.

“Every game we played in this period, seven games in all including friendlies and at the World Cup, I never saw the players that I can see in the autumn or two months after Christmas. They were training well, were focused, but they are not the same players, not as fast or quick, as I know. I want to change something but it’s impossible, there are too many games in the season. They play, Saturday, Wednesday, Saturday, Wednesday.”

That, if Capello does remain in charge, could prove to be his biggest challenge, but he is adamant he wants a chance to prove he can change England’s fortunes. “I prefer to stay,” he insisted. “We need time to recover and be fresh.”

Fabio Capello has stated his desire to remain as England manager – but his future will be decided by the Football Association over the next two weeks.

Capello’s future has been the subject of speculation both before and since England’s disappointing FIFA World Cup™ exit against Germany yesterday, with suggestions he could be axed from his role.

He said: “I spoke this morning with [Club England chairman] Sir Dave Richards and he told me that he needs two weeks to decide.”

Asked whether he would like to stay in his role, the Italian said: “Absolutely. I said I can be the manager of England for the next season, but it is for him [Richards] to decide.

“We spoke also about the players that can play for the next qualification and I know what I have to do.”

Club England managing director Adrian Bevington indicated the FA had sought to give themselves time to consider Capello’s position, rather than making a “knee-jerk reaction” in the wake of yesterday’s 4-1 defeat in Bloemfontein.

“Sir Dave Richards met with Fabio this morning and we are all very clear that Fabio is under contract with the FA until the 2012 European Championships and nothing has changed in that respect,” Bevington said.

“Obviously everybody is very disappointed today with the fact that we’ve gone out of the World Cup in a manner that everyone back in England and the fans that have travelled are incredibly frustrated with.

“So it makes perfect sense for us to go back to London and take stock of the situation, reflect fully on the tournament and see what we can take from it and just speak to Fabio from there.

“I don’t think there is anything sinister in it beyond that we just want to make sure we show a commonsense approach rather than making any other snap knee-jerk reactions within 24 hours of a very disappointing result.”

Capello indicated he was content to allow the FA time to consider their options, despite admitting last night he would like assurances that they would back him to remain in the role. Reacting to Bevington’s explanation,  Capello said: “Yes I think it is an intelligent answer.

“I have got a contract. I refused a lot of opportunities to be a manager from a lot of important clubs because I would like to stay here. I like this job. I like to be England manager.”