He's doing conferences as an England manager, regardless of where in world it is if he's doing anything shady or underhand it would be pounced on straight away so I don't imagine he could've been too vague with what he told his bosses.Surely though given what's available in the transcript seems to suggest he was telling the FA he was doing a couple of conferences in the far east as an advisor. However at least one of the things what he was actually doing was advising on loop holes and ways around rules set out by his employer and as such looking likely he'd have been in part deceiving the FA or at least advising on how to flaunter their rules means in fact it was potentially very shady?
There's also a big difference between sitting chewing the cud and musing over the possibilities of doing what was suggested to actually doing it as well.