Valencia head coach Gary Neville has revealed in an exclusive interview with Sky Sports that the current focus is Valencia, but his long-term future does not lie in management.
The former Manchester United defender is in charge of the La Liga club until the end of the season, but is yet to win a game in the league.
His side face Real Madrid - live on Sky Sports 3 HD at 7pm on Sunday - following the 1-0 defeat by Villarreal on New Year's Eve. Valencia currently sit 11 points off the Champions League spots.
But the Englishman's long-term future is clear in his head, and speaking with Sky Sports' Geoff Shreeves, Neville said: "I'm not going to say where I want to end up, and it isn't in management or head coaching, so I want to be clear about that.
― Jebtsundamba Khutuktu (nakhchivan), Sunday, 3 January 2016 11:54 (eight years ago) link
Gerrard thinks deeply about the game that has enabled him to fulfil his dreams and it is when the conversation moves on to management that his opinions strike a chord; he, after all, is one of a generation that includes Jamie Carragher, Frank Lampard and Rio Ferdinand with so much to offer.
'Would the likes of Carra and ex-players like Robbie (Fowler)? Keep them about. Find roles for them. They have too much to offer to just be let go. I have regrets now that I didn't start my badges at 21-22. All that time I wasted in hotels being when I was watching The Office and The Sopranos.
'I wish I could be doing my 'Pro' licence now. I know many players who get to the end of their careers and get handed a C licence pack, which is about four inches thick, and say "Nah, I'm not doing that". He could have 70/80 caps and 600 career appearances. They have so much to offer.'
― Jebtsundamba Khutuktu (nakhchivan), Sunday, 3 January 2016 11:56 (eight years ago) link
the neville stuff is p ridiculous, like he had to distance himself from england and man u this week, when the valencia job, which he basically got due to being friends with a millionaire, is almost certainly a doomed project.
― japanese mage (LocalGarda), Sunday, 3 January 2016 12:05 (eight years ago) link
'I wish I could be doing my 'Pro' licence now. I know many 70/80 caps and 600 career appearances players who get to the end of their careers and get handed an elite club level job, which is about having to do work, and say "Nah, I'm not doing that". They have so much to offer.'
― Jebtsundamba Khutuktu (nakhchivan), Sunday, 3 January 2016 12:09 (eight years ago) link
zidane at real madrid is going to be a disaster
― Cuombas (jim in glasgow), Monday, 4 January 2016 21:20 (eight years ago) link
afaik he is not very clever
― Jebtsundamba Khutuktu (nakhchivan), Monday, 4 January 2016 21:22 (eight years ago) link
charismatic megafauna
― Jebtsundamba Khutuktu (nakhchivan), Monday, 4 January 2016 21:23 (eight years ago) link
it's the opposite of a nascent appeal of managerial competence appointment
combining galactico signing policy with "good madrid man" appease-the-plebs-populism
― Cuombas (jim in glasgow), Monday, 4 January 2016 21:28 (eight years ago) link
http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2016/01/04/19/2FCBEDBD00000578-3384157-image-a-61_1451936033479.jpg
― r|t|c, Tuesday, 5 January 2016 08:45 (eight years ago) link
It's like an elite version of replacing Villas Boas with Tim Sherwood.
― Matt DC, Tuesday, 5 January 2016 09:43 (eight years ago) link
lol right
― sounding like a silly Iain Banks on a track (imago), Tuesday, 5 January 2016 09:59 (eight years ago) link
down to the ballyhooed not-sign-zidane-already-got-sherwood.html tales of yore
― sounding like a silly Iain Banks on a track (imago), Tuesday, 5 January 2016 10:00 (eight years ago) link
like the idea of tuchel getting his defenders to play practice games while holding tennis balls in their hands to discourage shirt pulling.
― pandemic, Thursday, 7 April 2016 14:49 (eight years ago) link
https://www.theguardian.com/football/blog/2016/may/14/quique-sanchez-flores-watford-departure-explained
― nakhchivan, Saturday, 14 May 2016 13:44 (seven years ago) link
vg
― Daithi Bowsie (darraghmac), Saturday, 14 May 2016 14:20 (seven years ago) link
Conte, Pochettino, Guardiola, Klopp, Mourinho, Wenger, Koeman, Pellegrino, Howe, Bilic, De Boer, Clement, Silva, Benitez.
Not all perfect by any means, especially at the back end of that list, but this probably represents the single best crop of managers to have all been working in the Premiership at once?
― Matt DC, Tuesday, 27 June 2017 10:21 (six years ago) link
ffs you missed Wagner, who is as the chant goes "better than Klopp"!
― calzino, Tuesday, 27 June 2017 10:31 (six years ago) link
Hard times for the Huddersfield fan: chased out of the EFL thread by angry Charlton hard-lads, unconsidered by the Prem lot.
― Tim, Wednesday, 28 June 2017 14:28 (six years ago) link
Lol! It is hard out there when yr upstart club has just won the Euromillions jackpot.
― calzino, Wednesday, 28 June 2017 18:06 (six years ago) link
xp We might be getting Ince jr from Derby, so it will probably be our fault if they bid for Ollie Watkins. But at least they aren't shy of paying big transfer fees.
― calzino, Wednesday, 28 June 2017 19:17 (six years ago) link
― Cuombas (jim in glasgow), Monday, January 4, 2016 1:20 PM (one year ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
um
― -_- (jim in vancouver), Wednesday, 29 November 2017 22:07 (six years ago) link
Draw against a 3rd tier club yesterday in the Copa tbf
― Le Bateau Ivre, Wednesday, 29 November 2017 22:09 (six years ago) link
lost to girona in the league a month ago too and currently 4th in the league.
but still won the champs league twice and la liga once so perhaps not the worst disaster
― -_- (jim in vancouver), Wednesday, 29 November 2017 22:12 (six years ago) link
Champs league don't mean shit nowadays. Just look at Spurs.
(he's not that bad though, I agree)
― Le Bateau Ivre, Wednesday, 29 November 2017 22:13 (six years ago) link
Fp ya cuntcha
― moyesery loves kompany (darraghmac), Wednesday, 29 November 2017 22:15 (six years ago) link
I'll take it on the chin.
― Le Bateau Ivre, Wednesday, 29 November 2017 22:16 (six years ago) link
hadn't heard of this guy
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TxGz1nWwCaw
speedrunning managerial competency like never before
― imago, Monday, 20 February 2023 14:23 (one year ago) link
i listened to wengers desert island discs the last night and hes a good charming speaker so he is
― close encounters of the third knid (darraghmac), Monday, 4 September 2023 20:53 (seven months ago) link
Unfortunately no Magma or Heldon among his picks.
― Monthly Python (Tom D.), Monday, 4 September 2023 20:54 (seven months ago) link
alas Lorraine
― close encounters of the third knid (darraghmac), Monday, 4 September 2023 20:55 (seven months ago) link