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Steve Holland, former right hand man to Gareth Southgate, is reportedly in talks with a club thousands of miles away from England. Holland is rumoured to be joining a club previously managed by Tottenham Hotspur manager Ange Postecoglou and ex-Wolves player Kevin Muscat. That club is Japanese side Yokohama F. Marinos who currently sit 12th in the J1 League - a disappointing position considering their second place finish last season. The Yokohama faithful hold big expectations for the club who have won two titles in five years, but with only two gameweeks of the season left all hope for silverware this season is lost. Following the sacking of manager Harry Kewell after less than seven months in the job due to only winning six out of 18 league matches, his assistant John Hutchinson took charge on an interim basis. But their fortunes did not change as Hutchinson only picked up seven wins in 17 top flight games. The former Three Lions assistant coach will have the mission of returning them to glory as Postecoglou did, ending their 15-year-long J League title drought. Muscat also won the top flight in 2022. Holland is incredibly highly-rated as a coach and has worked his way up the ladder through the likes of Crewe, Stoke and Chelsea. It would be his first management job for 16 years, where he had a brief spell in the Crewe dugout. Speaking on the former Three Lions assistant coach, Dean Ashton during EURO 2020 told talk SPORT: “He finished football when he was 21 years old and started coaching so he's got such a wealth of experience right from the youth team all the way through to the first team to Chelsea, to players like John Terry, Lampard, Drogba and now working with Harry Kane. “I’m sure Gareth leans on Steve a hell of a lot for his experience and his coaching knowledge. Behind the scenes he’s very highly thought of. He’s a fantastic coach. “If you look at the celebrations he’s the one who is keeping his cool and thinking about tactically what are we doing next? How do we adjust now the goal has gone in, how does that affect us? He’s very clinical in that way of thinking. “I think what’s big about Steve, and whenever I ask players I’ve played with and certainly players that have been coached by him is, his sessions are fantastic. " The striker complemented Holland’s ability to engage players with sessions that 'mentally stimulate' the top players. Holland, if he takes the job, will hope for success similar to Postecoglou or even the great Arsene Wenger. The ex-Arsenal manager took an unconventional route to greatness, leaving European football for the continent of Asia. After his six-year stint at Monaco where he won the French title, in 1994 he arrived at Nagoya Grampus, owned by car manufacturers Toyota. Wenger took the reigns for the 1995 season and despite a tricky start managed to finish second, eight points behind leaders Verdy Kawasaki. Silverware did follow in the Emperor’s Cup but most importantly Japan is where Wenger developed the cornerstone of his nutritional diets that would later revolutionise Arsenal and English football. Describing his time in Japan, the Frenchman said: "It's something that changed me profoundly as well. The vision I have of life changed in Japan. It was absolutely a deep, profound and very, very positive experience. I'm very grateful that I went. Perhaps it was a bit crazy of me at the time to decide to go, but I'm thankful for that moment of craziness. "Maybe [my time in Japan helped me succeed at Arsenal], because I took a distance from the pressure in Europe and came back with a different viewpoint. I can take more distance from decisions now than I could before. " This service is provided on talk SPORT Ltd's Terms of Use in accordance with our Privacy Policy.