Valencia boss Gary Neville admits his long-term future is not in football management

GARY NEVILLE has surprisingly revealed he does not view his long-term future in football management.

 

Gary Neville is the current coach of Valencia

 

Neville, 40, took his first manager's job at Valencia a month ago and the move was regarded by many as being a stepping stone towards becoming a future boss of England or his former club Manchester United.

But the England coach says that while he is fully focused on the job at the Mestalla, where he has been appointed until the end of the season, he does not want to be a manager in the long term.

 

"I'm not going to say where I want to end up but it isn't in management or head coaching, so I want to be clear about that," he said in an interview with Sky, for whom he worked as a pundit for four years. "That's not my ultimate goal of where I want to be.

"I was really enjoying what I was doing, the multiple things I had on, even though I knew it was coming to a point where I had to make decisions at the end of this season.

 

"This [Valencia] came at the right time, because it has allowed me to think, 'Okay, in the four, five years I've had out of football, I've experienced a lot in the different facets of football'. Whether media, broadcasting, head coach, assistant manager with England, being a part-owner of a football club and seeing it from that side, and the other business stuff I do.

"I didn't want to look back having missed the opportunity to go and coach in this league, at a big club. It is something from my point of view that I wanted to do."

Neville is still looking for his first La Liga win his first La Liga win after Valencia drew with Rafa Benitez's Real Madrid last night.