Report: Allardyce, Klinsmann set to interview for England manager role

The Football Association intends to interview Sunderland boss Sam Allardyce as well as United States men's national team head coach Jurgen Klinsmann for the vacant managerial position with the England national team, reports Daniel Taylor of The Guardian.

Allardyce is the heavy favourite to take the job with Klinsmann the other leading candidate, according to Taylor, and the FA is looking to appoint a new manager within the next two weeks.

While Klinsmann's style of management is reportedly well received, his possible insistence on hiring his own staff and implementing his own system does not mesh with the FA's view of its own system for English football - which it doesn't consider broken despite being eliminated by Iceland in Euro 2016.

Allardyce received an endorsement from former Manchester United manager Sir Alex Ferguson. He was also touted to take the job in 2006, but the FA instead hired Steve McClaren.

Klinsmann recently guided the U.S. to a fourth-place finish in the Copa America Centenario while Allardyce is currently in Austria for Sunderland's preseason camp.