Report: Bayern denies Paul Clement additional England coaching role

Sam Allardyce's efforts to freshen up his England backroom team have fallen short after Bayern Munich reportedly blocked assistant Paul Clement from juggling club commitments with those for the national team.

The Allianz Arena hierarchy decided a job share for one of the brightest young coaches on the continent isn't ideal as it undergoes preparations for the 2016-17 season and a new era since Pep Guardiola's departure, according to the Guardian's Daniel Taylor. This comes despite incumbent boss Carlo Ancelotti apparently being open to the idea.

Clement was sighted as a replacement for Gary Neville, who worked as No. 2 under Allardyce's successor Roy Hodgson, but Neville reportedly caused friction in the England camp as the side embarrassingly bowed out to Iceland at Euro 2016.

Forty-four-year-old Clement is working alongside Ancelotti for the fourth time following stints in the coaching staff at Chelsea, Paris Saint-Germain, and Real Madrid, and helped Gareth Southgate at the England Under-21 level on an informal basis last season.

The Londoner oversaw a side for the first time in 2015-16 at Derby County, but was sacked in February despite the club being well in the mix for promotion to the Premier League.

Allardyce is reportedly reluctantly beginning to look towards other options to assist him in his new role, but it's believed the Football Association is still trying to persuade Der FCB's boardroom that the Clement arrangement can work.

So far Sammy Lee, the brash Scouser who worked alongside Allardyce at Bolton Wanderers, has joined the coaching team ahead of the first competitive outing of the new regime in Slovakia on Aug. 4.