David Moyes has been out of work since the summer after his contract at West Ham United ended at the culmination of the season
Former Everton manager David Moyes has hinted a return to management is on his agenda with a move abroad a potential option. The Scottish coach began his career post-playing at Preston North End before making the move to the Blues in 2002.
He would spend 11 years at Goodison Park forging Everton into a top-half team before making the switch to Manchester United following the retirement of Sir Alex Ferguson. Things did not work out for Moyes at Old Trafford and his career looked to be spiralling after poor runs at Real Sociedad and Sunderland.
However, he enjoyed two good spells at West Ham United, winning the Conference League in his second stint at the club which ended at the culmination of last season. Since then, Moyes has worked as a pundit for the BBC at the Euros and holds a role with UEFA as a match analyst but a return to coaching now appears to be on the horizon.
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Speaking on the Stick to Football podcast, brought to you by Sky Bet, Moyes explained: “No case of that [wanting to get back into management] at all, but I’m starting to think about it. For three months I’ve been great, because I wanted the time off.
“It doesn’t sound a lot to say you’ve had 60 games last year, but when you’re the manager and you’re coming back on a Thursday night from Belgium or France, you’re saying: ‘My goodness, I’ve got to get the team prepared – I’ve got to get all the work done.’ There might be debriefs, then you’re trying to get them ready for a Premier League game.
“I found that amount of workload to be really difficult in the last three years, but it was a pleasure to be in that situation. I’ve been going to a few more games, I didn’t want to go for the first month or so because I just wanted to sit back and see how it was going to go.
“I watched Salford at Fleetwood, seen Preston because they are local for me.” When quizzed about returning to management abroad, Moyes was open to the idea but explained why the Sociedad job did not work out for him.
“I would [go abroad again to manage]. I loved it in Spain – I learnt so much,” he explained.
“Real Sociedad were in trouble. Would I have stayed longer? Maybe a little bit longer.
“Sociedad is a great club; they’ve got a history. The way they work is, 16 players from the academy have to be in your squad of 24. [Imagine] if I said that Manchester United had to do that, or Liverpool, or Arsenal?
“[Athletic] Bilbao has to be pure Basque [in their academy], whereas Sociedad allows others in. If [Gary Neville] at Salford said: ‘We can only bring people in from the Manchester area,’ it would be incredibly hard to have teams.
“They have a great philosophy in what they do, but if you’re the manager and you’re coming into a period where there maybe isn’t the best group of young players coming through – I’m not saying that was the case for me – but I found it really difficult learning the language even though I tried.”
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