Liverpool hero Jamie Carragher says Gareth Southgate should leave the England job after the World Cup.

Southgate - who named his 26-man squad to travel to the World Cup on Thursday - is gearing up for his third major tournament in the England hot-seat this month, with the Three Lions set to begin their World Cup campaign against Iran on November 21.

"If I was Gareth Southgate, I would make the Qatar World Cup my swansong as England manager," Carragher wrote in his column for The Telegraph.

"Hopefully England will produce to a strong enough level to ensure that is Southgate's call.

"After his excellence in the job to this point, the least he deserves is to leave on his own terms when he feels the time is right. He is intelligent enough to have sensed a mood shift over the last few months, even if some of the negativity surrounding him during the build-up to the tournament is a joke."