The Football Association intends to appoint an Englishman as the next manager of the national team once Fabio Capello's contract expires after Euro 2012.

The Italian was retained despite his team's dismal displays at the World Cup finals, in which England laboured to emerge from their group before succumbing to a record second-round defeat by Germany, and remains committed to seeing out his contract worth up to £6m a year until the tournament in Ukraine and Poland. Yet the FA plans to return to a home-grown coach for their next appointment after their expensive deployment of Capello and Sven-Goran Eriksson over the past decade.

Capello will be allowed to see out his deal in an attempt to make amends for the poor showing in South Africa. "Fabio Capello is contracted until 2012 and, as we sit here today, we are working on the basis that he will be with us until 2012," Adrian Bevington, the recently appointed managing director of Club England, said. "What I am saying is that in the future, beyond Fabio's contract, the view of everyone in the discussions so far is that we should have an English manager moving forward and my personal wish very clearly is that we should have an English manager post Fabio Capello and post the Euros.

"That is certainly the view expressed in the discussions that I have been involved in. I have got to say from a personal point of view that would be very much my wish moving forward as well. We enjoyed working with Sven-Goran Eriksson, who did an excellent job for England, and we have Fabio now with whom we were very clear at the outset. We wanted Fabio to come in and hopefully achieve something with us and, when he came to the end of his contract in 2012, the view was we always wanted an Englishman in charge. I think, moving forward, in the future the England team should have an England manager.

"We are in a results business and nobody is going to try and gloss over that. Fabio Capello knows that, everyone at the FA knows that. We have had a very disappointing World Cup and it is important that we do start well in the European Championship [qualifiers]. But, looking forward today, Capello has a contract until the summer of 2012 and we hope, and expect, him to see that through. A lot of people have a very different view of Fabio Capello now to the one they had before the World Cup. But our job is to support him as best we can. Maybe we can help him, and maybe now is the time to improve communications between manager and players."

Those difficulties in communication were exposed yet again last week when Capello appeared to call time on David Beckham's international career in a TV interview broadcast before the friendly with Hungary. The former captain, who may hope to be involved in the friendly against France confirmed for 17 November, still insists he does not intend to retire and will remain available for selection regardless.

Eriksson claimed today he would have spoken to Beckham personally before curtailing the player's career at this level had he still be in charge. "[The general manager] Franco Baldini, who generally tends to be the liaison with the players, did speak to David personally," Bevington added. "David has made it very clear that he doesn't envisage making any retirement announcement and so we will respect that. I don't envisage us having a farewell match for David Beckham, certainly in the near future. Since Wednesday there has been quite a bit of contact with David and his advisors and, if Fabio hasn't already, he certainly will be speaking to David."