David Moyes says he would be open to managing abroad again as he urged more British coaches to take their chance overseas - but also refused to rule out one day returning to West Ham.
Moyes is set to manage the Hammers for the final time when he takes his side to Manchester City for Sunday’s final game of the season, before leaving the club when his contract expires this summer.
It will be the second time Moyes has walked away from West Ham, having also been let go in the summer of 2018, despite having succeeded in the goal of his short-term appointment by leading the club clear of relegation.
On that occasion, West Ham made the ambitious move to appoint former Manchester City boss Manuel Pellegrini, but within 18 months the Chilean was gone and Moyes back in the dugout facing another relegation scrap.
The Scot again kept West Ham in the top-flight before going on to orchestrate the club’s most successful period in generations by qualifying for Europe in three successive seasons and ending a 43-year trophy drought with last year’s Europa Conference League success.
Asked whether he could be tempted back by a similar call in future, Moyes said: “You never say never in this game, I've always enjoyed my time here so who knows?”
Moyes is planning to take a break from management while working on television and radio coverage of Euro 2024 this summer, but revealed he has already had several offers of new jobs, both in coaching and elsewhere in football.
The 61-year-old is something of a rarity among British managers of his generation in having experienced management overseas during a year-long spell at Real Sociedad and hopes younger coaches follow his lead while admitting he could himself be tempted into another adventure beyond home shores.
"If the right opportunity comes up and it suits me and the family, I might do,” Moyes said. “I'm really keen to make sure British managers get opportunities to manage in other countries.
“If you look at the Premier League, we bring in all the best managers from different countries.
“We're not exporting enough British managers to work in the other leagues. But we're quite happy to bring in all the other managers here, which is limiting a lot of the British managers to manage some of the top jobs. The Championship was once full of young British coaches, but it's similar to the Premier League now.
“I want to try and make sure we're pushing young British coaches to get jobs in overseas countries. It's easy to say we've got people working in Norway or Thailand, but in the top big five leagues in Europe we have very few working there."
