When Postecoglou addressed his rumoured exit in public for the first time last week he said the speculation had served its purpose, "because no one was talking about the congress, so David (Gallop) is really happy."

Australian football is currently at a crossroads with FIFA threatening to impose a normalising committee which could see FFA’s board replaced if an agreement between the PFA, A-League clubs and State Member Federations isn't reached by November.

As a result of the speculation surounding Postecouglou's early exit from the Socceroos, the media coverage of the governance standstill has taken a back step.

But at today's launch of the W-League, Gallop said the Socceroos boss was only making light of the situation when he mentioned the FFA CEO.

“I think he was sort of joking,” he said.

Since news spread of Postecoglou’s possible departure much has been made about the Socceroos boss' relationship with FFA and Gallop in particular.

The tension can be traced back to September 2015, when the 52-year-old was forced to back-track on comments made about the players' pay dispute with the governing body.

But today Gallop denied there was any personal conflict between the two.

“(Our relationship is) very good,” he said.

While there has been no confirmation that Postecoglou will leave his post, Gallop admitted that there were contingency plans in place if the Socceroos boss does leave his job.

“We are always looking at options,” he said.

“Because of the fluid nature of football you are always considering the contingencies for the future.

“We've always got an eye on where we are at both in-terms of the Socceroos and our junior national teams

“We are at a point where we have to concentrate on these games against Honduras they are massive games and after that some decisions will need to have to be made.

“(After that) The Socceroos don’t play again until March so we’ve got a relatively long stretch of inactivity and that will give us an opportunity to make a decision with Ange about the future.”

Since reports circulated that Postecoglou could leave before the World Cup a number of former Socceroos have called for more transparency about whether he will stay or leave.

But Gallop said FFA were not pressuring Postecoglou to come clean about his future plans.

“His intention is to qualify for a fourth consecutive World Cup and he’s not concentrating on anything else,” he said.

“We accept that he is where he is and he’s not going to make any further decision neither are we until after Honduras.

“It’s not something you can speculate about it’s something that we decoded after we play on the 15th of November and hopefully we are celebrating going to a consecutive fourth World Cup.”