Fabio 'focused only on World Cup'
England coach Fabio Capello will discuss his contract with the Football Association in South Africa next week.
Capello, whose current deal runs until summer 2012, is wanted by Inter Milan as a replacement for Jose Mourinho.
The sudden exit of Lord Triesman as FA chairman on 16 May also added to the uncertainty over Capello's position.
And new FA general secretary Alex Horne will meet the former AC Milan boss to confirm they want the Italian to remain in charge after the World Cup.
Speaking at England's pre-World Cup training camp in Austria, FA communications director Adrian Bevington said: "We are very happy with Fabio.
"Fabio has always expressed his happiness with us and for us it is business as normal.
"There have been various changes at the FA in recent weeks and I am sure once we are in South Africa the new general secretary Alex Horne and Sir Dave Richards, who carries a senior role for the professional game around the national team, plus myself, will sit down with Fabio and make sure he is up to speed with the various changes because there have been a lot in recent weeks."
Those well-documented changes have come and thick and fast.
A day after Capello committed his future to England until after the 2012 European Championships, Lord Triesman resigned as chairman of the FA and England's 2018 World Cup bid over comments he allegedly made about rival 2018 bidders Spain and Russia that were secretly filmed by a national newspaper.
In the aftermath of the controversy, Horne was on Thursday appointed general secretary - the successor, in all but title, to Ian Watmore, who departed as chief executive in March because of disagreements with senior board members - while Roger Burden was made acting chairman until a new independent chair is found.
Just prior to Lord Triesman's departure, Capello was widely believed to be ready to rip up a clause in his contract that allows him to leave England for a club before his deal expires.
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And with Inter waiting ominously in the wings following Mourinho's departure to Real Madrid, where he will be unveiled as coach on Monday, it is now left to Horne to shore up Capello's England future.
However, speaking ahead of England's final warm-up game against Japan in Graz, Capello was coy on his future and intimated that the comings and goings at the FA had proved a hindrance.
"I have read a lot and some friends of mine rang me and said 'Fabio, you are coming back?'," said Capello.
"I signed a contract with Brian Barwick [former FA chief executive]. Afterwards I spoke with Lord Triesman about changing something. Now I am waiting to speak with the new chairman.
"If England fans were looking for some kind of guarantee over the future, they didn't get it," said BBC sports correspondent Dan Roan in Austria.
For now, Capello claims he has only South Africa on his mind.
"I am really focused on the World Cup. I want to reach the final. That is my target. The other things are absolutely out of my mind," he stated.
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