Outgoing PSV Eindhoven coach Guus Hiddink is not in the running to be the next England manager, his agent said today.

"He definitely won't be the England manager," Cees van Nieuwenhuizen told the BBC, adding that having a short-listing process was "a sort of an insult" to the Dutchman.

"In spite of all the rumours he has not been in England and the FA have not been to Holland for a serious interview."

Hiddink had been mentioned as a contender to take over from Sven-Goran Eriksson when the Swede quits after the World Cup, which begins in June.

Van Nieuwenhuizen said the English FA had made an initial approach to Hiddink, who leaves PSV at the end of the season, but had not followed it up.

"There has been some contact with me but the way it was done was, for us at least, not so serious," he said.

"They were interested in having a coffee or tea and finding out if he could be a potential candidate to be put on the short-list.

"We did not take it too seriously because you expect that if you are in the world of football then you know who Guus Hiddink is and what he has achieved on a club level and on a national level.

"If people have to find out if he could be a candidate to be put on a short-list then I think this is sort of an insult to Guus and his achievements so far."

Hiddink is part-time coach of Australia, who qualified for the World Cup for the first time in 32 years. He took the Netherlands to the World Cup semi-finals in 1998 and repeated the feat with South Korea in 2002.

The FA said last week it was on course to name Eriksson's replacement before the World Cup in Germany.

Former Celtic boss Martin O'Neill is the bookmakers' favourite in a race that began in January when Eriksson, England's first foreign manager, announced he would stand down two years early.

Middlesbrough boss Steve McClaren, Charlton Athletic's Alan Curbishley and Bolton Wanderers' Sam Allardyce are the other main candidates.