Toshack, after being given the job ahead of Dean Saunders and Phillipe Troussier, Toshack said in a Press Conference:

"I think 10 years ago I felt I was helping out in a difficult moment," said the Wales new man. I was under contract with Real Sociedad and was given permission by the club to take up the offer with the FAW, where I did not have a contract and was paid on a match-by-match basis. When I was here I saw there were greater difficulties and issues I could not address under those circumstances. It was probably a mistake upon my behalf." Toshack said.

"The time was right for a change, but unfortunately it was not to be for me. This time it is different in the fact that I don't have any further commitments. We are 10 years further on, and I have more knowledge of the game. I feel inside now it is the right time for me. After 26 years in six different countries, I have won honours as a player and manager, but taking a national team to a European finals or World Cup finals is something I haven't been able to do. It is one of the few things left which motivates me, and I hope this time around I will be able to do it. I would be bitterly disappointed if I was not able to produce the goods this time around."

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