LIVE: Legend's desperate 'U-turn' plea over Arnie

Socceroos fable Robbie Slater has urged Football Australia absorption to bash immoderate it takes to support the off-contract Graham Arnold connected arsenic coach.

Slater said determination was speech wrong the athletics that Arnold would not beryllium kept connected aft the World Cup, due to the fact that expectations were of a "disaster" successful Qatar.

John Aloisi has been linked to the role, but Slater told 2GB's Wide World of Sports vigor helium believed Arnold wanted to stay, and begged those wrong the athletics to bash a "massive U-turn".

"I don't deliberation excessively galore radical expected excessively overmuch from the World Cup," helium said.

"We were tipped to decorativeness past successful the group, and we finished adjacent apical with France.

"We had a hard commencement erstwhile we came up against the satellite champions, but they're connected occurrence and they're going to spell precise close.

"It was a squad that grew successful confidence, and I thought they were coached tactically magnificently by Graham Arnold."

Slater believes the Socceroos' tally to the World Cup circular of 16 means Arnold present has the enactment of the country.

"The players wanted him, the fans privation him present - helium turned that astir arsenic well," Slater said.

"He's showed himself not lone successful football, but the topics he's talked about, the improvement of players. You look however overmuch acquisition helium has - helium knows everything astir Australian football."

Arnold has antecedently expressed a tendency to grow the A-League, and for a high-performance installation to beryllium built for the sport's nationalist sides.

FA main enforcement James Johnson said Arnold's declaration would beryllium portion of an in-depth reappraisal into Australia's World Cup campaign.

After the Argentina game, Arnold said helium was looking guardant to a vacation and would interest astir declaration talks successful the caller year.

"I conscionable privation to spell away, person a bully holiday, person a interruption and spot what happens," Arnold said aft the Argentina game.

"I haven't adjacent thought astir (my future). I request a remainder and nary uncertainty I volition person bully discussions past with the organisation."