Naismith sure Clarke's future will soon be resolved
[SNS] Steven Naismith insists manager Steve Clarke's "brilliant relationship" with the Scottish FA will ensure uncertainty over his future does not affect Scotland's World Cup build-up. Clarke's contract expires with the national team after the summer World Cup and he is yet to receive a formal extension offer , admitting last week he is "50-50" over whether to stay or return to club management. "It's been a relationship that's been around for so long.
Everybody's comfortable with it, in it," said assistant coach Naismith. "This period's really been intense. But I think with the two tournaments we've been at, the way we've performed at them, the main focus has been we need to make sure everything's bang on in the tournament.
"What will happen will get resolved and worked out. But I think the relationship the manager's got, especially with the people that make the decisions here, is good. It's really good.
"And I think that's the thing everybody's probably comfortable about. There'll be times that things move on. "But at the moment, we should just enjoy what we have.
We're going to the World Cup and I think no doubt things will get sorted. "It will be sorted out one way or another. It's very relaxed, because they've been in a relationship for seven years.