Pearce's present deal expires after next summer's European Under-21 Championships in Denmark, by which time he will have been in the job for over four years.

With a third major tournament to mastermind, a bid to host the 2013 tournament about to be decided upon in January and a coach still to appoint for the Great Britain Olympic team, the FA are anxious to get one part of a complex puzzle sorted out as director of football development Sir Trevor Brooking plots a future he hopes will end in glory at the 2018 World Cup that will now be held in Russia.

"Stuart is focused on the summer tournament," said Brooking.

"But his contract runs out next summer, so we have to look at that in the new year.

"We are bidding for the 2013 Under-21 Championships as well and we also have the Olympics, so we will have to see what is decided with that.

"But Stuart has been involved with a lot of those younger players. and I am sure he will want to know what is going on.

"A lot will revolve around him over the next six months. We trust each other and we will move it along."

The Olympics remain a confused issue, not least because the British Olympic Association are still to ratify an England-only team, which seems to be the only viable way of complying with tournament regulations without putting the independence of the other home nations within FIFA at risk.

Only when that is decided can a coach be appointed, although Brooking anticipates a verdict being reached within "the first quarter" of next year.

Construction work on the St George's Park complex at Burton-upon-Trent is also due to begin in January and now Brooking's extensive 'The Future Game' project has been completed and will be presented to the FA board tomorrow, work can also begin on identifying an English coach to be brought into the FA structure to gain experience, as was hinted at immediately after the World Cup.

Brooking is keeping potential candidates under wraps. But it appears his view is that it should be someone from the younger end of the spectrum.

"We can produce coaches as good as anyone and we want to bring in one or two English coaches to have a look at our teams and our structures, so they can understand what coaching an international team is all about," he said.

"We will want to bring someone in during the new year but it will be more about someone being brought in across the board rather than someone everyone thinks is going to be the England coach."

The building blocks are essential to Brooking's grand plan for player development.

As a former England international, he recognises the qualities required to reach the highest level these days.

Sadly, he sees them most in Spain, whose national youth sides England must meet at under-21, under-19 and under-17 level next year at differing stages of their European Championships.

There is also an Under-20 World Cup in Colombia next summer, completing a packed schedule Brooking believes will eventually lead to 2018, and the tournament England were so annoyed to miss out on hosting.

"The biggest challenge we are facing is to get greater depth at 16," said Brooking.

"A number of lads who won the European Under-17 Championships this summer have a really good chance.

"Hopefully, that will be the start of a conveyor belt. We should eventually get to the point of asking 'who are we going to leave out?', not 'how do we make them up?'.

"We have always talked about 2018. Not because we are forgetting about 2014, even if Brazil is going to be difficult for any European team, but some of those under-17s will be in their mid-20s then.

"You would like to think they will be coming through."

Brooking feels tournament experience they can gain now is invaluable, even if problems with player release remain.

"Sometimes clubs think because their players have played for the seniors they don't need to play for the under-21s.

"But it would be useful for people who have drifted around the senior squad; Kieran Gibbs, Jack Wilshere, Phil Jones, Jack Rodwell, Danny Welbeck, Daniel Sturridge, Jordan Henderson.

"We would like them all to get as much experience of tournament football as possible."

It seems the FA are keen to avoid another row with Arsene Wenger about Theo Walcott though, having become embroiled in a spat with the Gunners boss two years ago.

"Walcott does qualify for the Under-21s but he has been in the seniors for longer than any of the others," Brooking added.

"That one is up for discussion. The other lads are not regulars."