FA, will continue to pay Sven-Goran Eriksson in full until next year

The Football Association will continue to pay Sven-Goran Eriksson in full until next year and the Swede may end up costing another £3.4million.

While his successor Steve McClaren is being paid a reported £3million a year, the FA are also still having to fork out for Eriksson.

Under the details of the agreement, which have been confirmed by the FA, Eriksson will get his full salary paid until January 31 2007, and then half his salary for the five months until June 30 2007.

Eriksson had been under contract until 2008, so the FA will not have to pay anything for the final year of that deal but effectively agreed a nine-month pay-off of his £4.5million salary, a potential cost of £3.4million.

The settlement also makes clear that if Eriksson gets another job between now and next June, the FA are liable to cover any difference in salary between his England post and his new position.

The FA council met on Friday with some members unhappy that Eriksson has not provided any sort of debriefing on the failure of the World Cup campaign or his five years in charge of England.

The severance deal was agreed between Eriksson and FA chief executive Brian Barwick back in January when it was announced that the Swede was to step down following the World Cup.

At the time, Eriksson said: "Hopefully it will not cost the FA one penny. You can't be sure of absolutely everything in life but I am quite confident it will not cost the FA.''

At the moment, it is costing them £85,000 a week - and counting.