STAFF at a Bournemouth addictions treatment centre have sent their congratulations to football legend Paul Gascoigne after he was offered the manager’s job at Garforth Town.

The offer from the non-league West Yorkshire club comes just weeks after 43-year-old Gazza completed an alcohol rehabilitation programme at the Providence Projects in Boscombe.

Speculation that the ex-England, Tottenham Hotspur and Newcastle ace had been appointed the new boss of Garforth Town was dismissed yesterday by his agent who said the deal had not yet been finalised.

The Daily Echo talked to Gazza when he was in Boscombe

Keith McStea insisted that all talk of a deal being completed was premature with Gazza – who had a 39-day spell in charge of non-league Kettering Town in December 2005 – still considering the offer.

McStea described the offer as “pretty good” but stressed that Gazza had yet to officially put pen to paper, adding: “Talks are ongoing. The deal is not done.”

Gazza spoke exclusively to the Daily Echo after becoming the latest celebrity to check into the Boscombe centre and claims that he had groped a Boscombe shop worker after falling off the wagon in July.

Shop assistant Rowena Ross, 22, later apologised to Gazza, through the Echo, claiming she had been misquoted by a tabloid newspaper.

Yesterday Providence Projects’ founder Steve Spiegel said: “When I heard about Paul being offered the manager’s job I emailed him to offer our congratulations.

“He is a delightful guy and we are very proud of him; he left here because he had to have a hip replacement operation. Paul had completed his course and people said he was looking the best he’d been for 15 years. He still stays in touch and has said how much he is missing everyone. We are thrilled by what he has achieved and wish him well.”

During his stay in Boscombe, Gazza played football in a local park and was caught on camera at Dean Court while watching AFC Bournemouth in their first home game of the new league season.

As well as attending meetings to help him conquer his alcohol addiction, he shared a house with three others attending the clinic.