Manchester United manager Sir Alex Ferguson believes Harry Redknapp is "the best man" to replace Fabio Capello as England coach but has warned the Tottenham boss against combining the job with club work.

The 64-year-old Redknapp is the overwhelming favourite to take over from Capello following the Italian's shock resignation on Wednesday in protest at the decision to strip Chelsea's John Terry of the England captaincy just four months before the European Championships in Poland and Ukraine.

"There is no doubt Harry Redknapp is the best man," Ferguson, whose reigning Premier League champions are currently second in the table, just five points clear of third-placed Spurs, said Friday.

"He has the experience and personality and the knowledge of the game. He has changed the fortunes of every club he has been at," Ferguson added of his veteran English counterpart.

"He is the right choice."

But Ferguson, thrust into a caretaker role with Scotland at the 1986 World Cup while Aberdeen manager following the death of Jock Stein, cautioned against a dual-role which Football Association (FA) chiefs said Thursday was an option they were considering in their search for a new England manager.

"I tried it myself with Scotland in Mexico. I found it very difficult."

Redknapp himself appeared to agree with Ferguson, saying Friday: "It is hard enough managing a league club let alone managing your country, it's two very difficult jobs.

"It wouldn't be fair to anybody here if I started to let my thoughts wander elsewhere," he added with Spurs bidding for their first English title since 1961.

Meanwhile, Arsenal's long-serving French manager Arsene Wenger, often touted as a possible England boss, insisted he had no interest in international management.

"I have never really been tempted by the national team job because for me it is a completely different job," said Wenger, in charge of Arsenal since 1996.

"Maybe I have not enough quick fibres, but I am more interested in a day-to-day basis job."

Asked whether the England post could be filed by someone also working at a Premier League club, Wenger replied: "On a short-term (basis) yes, in the long term, no."

Another overseas candidate whose name has been linked with the England job is globetrotting Dutchman Guus Hiddink, most recently in charge of Turkey, who took then co-hosts South Korea to the semi-finals of the 2002 World Cup.

Hiddink also had a brief but successful spell as caretaker manager of Chelsea in 2009 when he won the FA Cup with the London club.

But his agent said Hiddink's relationship with Terry -- stripped of the England captaincy while he awaits the conclusion of a trial on charges of racially abusing QPR's Anton Ferdinand in a case not due to be heard until July, after Euro 2012 -- could prove a stumbling block.

"I don't, based on previous conversations with England FA board members, imagine that it would work," Hiddink's agent, Cees van Nieuwenhuizen, told the Daily Telegraph.

"Guus also has a very strong personal relationship with John Terry and would be on his side in all this."

Liverpool manager Kenny Dalglish, tongue in cheek, hinted fellow Scot Ferguson would be the ideal candidate to succeed Capello.

"Whether they (the FA) want someone of their own nationality or want the best it's up to them," said Dalglish, whose side play United on Saturday.

Dalglish said he was not referring to Redknapp, although "Harry would be fantastic".

Asked if he meant Ferguson, a smiling Dalglish added: "I never said that."

Ferguson had earlier laughed off the idea of becoming England manager, saying "The FA have approached (United chief executive) David Gill -- I said I would let them know on April 1.

"I would do it. I would 'relegate' them (England)."