MARK Hughes has offered to give FA chief executive Brian Barwick the benefit of his experience as he searches for a new England manager.

Barwick has already begun canvassing the opinions of leading figures within the game as he seeks to identify a successor to Steve McClaren.

Sir Bobby Charlton, Arsene Wenger, Sir Alex Ferguson and former Rovers chief Roy Hodgson are among the 10 wise men Barwick is planning to consult.

But, strangely, former Wales chief Hughes has so far been ignored, even though he is one of the few in the game who genuinely knows what it is like to manage at both Premiership and international level.

"If they want to ask me any questions then I'll happily speak to them," said Hughes, who last week revealed he would like to manage again at international level, but in 10 or 15 years' time.

"If someone wanted my opinion I would obviously allow myself, as a Welshman, to give it.

"I think about a dozen people have been asked and, sometimes if you ask too many people and get too many opinions, it suddenly becomes a committee situation, and I was involved with committees at the Welsh FA and they don't always work particularly well.

"So I would be wary of asking too many people."

Of the leading candidates mentioned so far, Hughes believes Jose Mourinho should be given serious consideration by the FA.

"He knows the players, obviously, because there's a number of Chelsea players in the squad who are key men for England," he added.

"So he'd have a head start over a number of people who have been mentioned and I don't think he's one that will be dismissed lightly."