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Former England boss Roy Hodgson has been offered a lucrative route back into management in China.

Hodgson is in big demand in the Far East and there is a potential £8million-a-year contract on the table if he goes to the Chinese Super League.

The 69-year-old quit his £3.5m-a-year Three Lions job in June after their humiliating elimination by tiny Iceland in the last-16 of the European Championship, and has so far been happy to take his time before making his next move.

Chinese clubs have made splashes in recent windows with the mega-money signings of players including Hulk, Graziano Pelle, Papiss Cisse, Ramires, Alex Teixeira and Jackson Martinez, but there is also a desire there to recruit top-name managers.

Another former England boss, Sven Goran Eriksson , is at Shanghai SIPG, Luiz Felipe Scolari, who steered Brazil to victory in the 2002 World Cup final, runs Guangzhou Evergrande, Manchester City title winner Manuel Pellegrini now manages Hebei China Fortune and three-time Bundlesiga champion Felix Magath is boss of Shandong Luneng .

Agents have made an approach in the hope that globe-trotter Hodgson — who speaks five languages and whose career has already seen him work in South Africa, Sweden, Switzerland, Italy, Denmark, the UAE, Norway and Finland — can be tempted, as he has yet to decide on his long-term future.

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But the huge money on offer may make him give it some thought, and it would also take him away from the spotlight of English football following the Euros disaster.

Several agents have mandates to try to tempt big names to Chinese football.

We reported interest in Hodgson from China the day after his England resignation, and ex-Liverpool boss Brendan Rodgers was also on their radar before he took over at Scottish champions Celtic in May.

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West Brom were also interested in re-hiring Hodgson, who was their manager before taking the England job, had Tony Pulis left the Hawthorns amid frustration over their summer transfer business, but the Welshman is now happier and seems certain to stay.

Hodgson is still considering his next move but was left hugely disappointed after former England boss Sam Allardyce mocked him - because of his speech affliction - during an undercover newspaper sting which cost him his job.