Harry Redknapp will work for Australian side Central Coast Mariners as a consultant next season, the A-League club have confirmed.
Redknapp was reportedly in line to be the next manager of Nigeria with the African giants looking to replace Sunday Oliseh who resigned last month.
Former Tottenham boss Redknapp has been out of full-time management since leaving QPR in April last year, but took on a position as a football advisor at Championship outift Derby County last month.
The experienced Englishman also took charge of Jordan for two World Cup qualifiers in March, which ended in an 8-0 win over Bangladesh and a 5-1 defeat to Australia.
And Redknapp wlll spend some of the 2016-17 A-League campaign in Australia, with Mariners owner Mike Charlesworth announcing the news at the club’s end- of-season awards ceremony on Friday.
The Super Eagles appointed Salisu Yusuf as interim manager this week to take charge of two upcoming friendlies against Mali in Paris on May 27 and Luxembourg on June 1.
But former Tottenham boss Redknapp has been approached to take over the national side full time folowing their failure to qualify for the African Nations Cup.
A source close to the team revealed he could be named as the next permanent manager within a few days, but that prospect looks slim now.
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