LIVE: FA boss spills on Arnold contract talks

Socceroos manager Graham Arnold looks acceptable to beryllium offered a caller declaration aft Australia's breathtaking tally astatine the Qatar World Cup, but Football Australia's main enforcement isn't convinced the mentor volition proceed successful his role.

Arnold's woody expired aft helium oversaw Australia's astir palmy World Cup campaign, successful which the Socceroos bushed Tunisia and Denmark to scope the circular of 16.

FA main enforcement James Johnson says helium won't sermon the presumption with immoderate different imaginable candidates earlier speaking with Arnold upon his instrumentality from a European holiday.

"We are successful interaction with Graham astir what his engagement implicit the adjacent 4 years volition look like," Johnson told AAP.

"Sure, having immoderate stableness with this team, fixed the rise, is simply a bully thing, and we volition speech to Arnie astir that.

"We won't speech to others until we person finished talking to Arnie.

"But ... we person got to beryllium realistic; Arnie's worth has accrued but truthful has the Australian game, and the Socceroos ... let's spot wherever we land. But I indispensable accidental I americium precise arrogant of Graham."

FA is carrying retired a reappraisal of the World Cup run and is expected to finalise it successful January.

Australia won 2 matches astatine a World Cup for the first clip and precocious to the past 16 for lone the 2nd time, matching the heroics of the 2006 Socceroos coached by Guus Hiddink.

Arnold is yet to uncover if helium wants to stay Australia's coach.

"We're successful regular contact, we person a large relationship," Johnson said.

"I person conscionable said, 'Mate, spell and person a break, we're not going to market, we volition beryllium talking to you but fto america decorativeness our reappraisal ... and past we volition get unneurotic and person a brew and person a speech astir your aboriginal erstwhile you get back'.

"That is what we mean to do.

"We don't privation to unreserved the decision."