**The Scottish FA will offer Craig Levein the vacant Scotland manager’s job, but only if he is happy with the remit, BBC Scotland has learned.**The Dundee United manager is due to meet the SFA in the next few days to discuss the possibility of succeeding George Burley as national team coach.
Levein said last week that he wanted to manage the national team at some point in his career, but he wasn’t sure when.
And on Saturday he said that he was keen to find out more about the role.
One concern he has about the job is his fear of becoming bored when the Scotland team is not involved in matches, something that former Scotland boss Walter Smith has warned about.
On his meeting with the SFA, Levein said after the postponement of Dundee United’s match at Hamilton: "The purpose of the meeting in my eyes is to find out a lot more about the job itself and find out what it entails.
“If it’s just seven games, six games, five games a season, I don’t know what I’m going to do for the rest of the time - if I get offered the job.”
Stephen Thompson, the Dundee United chairman, has reluctantly given the SFA permission to talk to his club’s manager.
BBC Scotland believes that a clause in Levein’s contract demands that compensation of around £250,000 be paid to the Tannadice outfit should he be poached by another club or national football association.