'I'm not done yet - but I don't want to fight relegation'

David Moyes says helium is not acceptable to discontinue from shot absorption conscionable yet - but is prepared to beryllium much picky with the jobs helium chooses successful future.

The 61-year-old Scot has been appointed an OBE successful the New Year Honours database for services to football, with his full of 697 Premier League games arsenic a manager lone exceeded by Arsene Wenger and Sir Alex Ferguson.

His managerial vocation has lasted much than 1,100 games crossed six clubs, having started astatine Preston successful 1998 earlier moving connected to Everton, Manchester United, Real Sociedad, Sunderland and West Ham United.

Moyes has been retired of the crippled since his 2nd stint arsenic Hammers brag came to an extremity successful May. He has been linked with galore jobs and fielded immoderate approaches this play - but for now, is contented to bask a break.

"I don't see myself done yet but I americium surely enjoying immoderate clip off," helium told BBC Sport.

"The 1 happening I won't bash is enactment immoderate manager nether unit personally, due to the fact that I don't judge successful it. I person not liked it erstwhile I person been successful that presumption myself.

"We are each getting a small spot older and I person to marque definite I americium doing the close happening for myself.

"Football is successful my blood. It has been since I was a boy. I emotion watching shot and I person enjoyed my career.

"If determination is different portion to it, truthful beryllium it. But I would lone privation it to beryllium a bully part. I wouldn't privation to beryllium coming successful and doing thing which is precise difficult.

"I don't privation to beryllium astatine the bottommost of the league and warring relegation which I person had a fewer times, truthful we volition spot however things go."

Moyes is completing a household treble arsenic his father, David Sr, already has an MBE.

Pictures of Moyes celebrating with his begetter successful Prague, aft West Ham had won the Europa Conference League to springiness the Glaswegian the archetypal large trophy of a managerial vocation spanning a 4th of a century, tugged astatine the heartstrings.

Moyes is speedy to wage tribute to the enactment helium has received from his household passim his career, though helium did not consciousness that azygous nighttime should find whether helium has been a occurrence oregon not.

"It was a large moment," helium said. "But it was instinctive. I hadn't won thing earlier truthful I didn't person thing planned.

"I ne'er thought I should beryllium defined if I won that nighttime oregon not. My vocation had already been a bully one. It had been a agelong 1 with galore ups and downs successful it.

"But I deliberation that goes for astir people. I don't deliberation anyone's beingness conscionable goes 1 way. You person to unrecorded with difficulties.

"There are times erstwhile you person to excavation heavy and amusement resilience. I person surely had to bash that implicit the years, but winning successful Prague was brilliant."

Moyes is simply a longstanding subordinate of the League Managers' Association (LMA) and portion helium inactive has ambitions of his own, is keen to assistance younger bosses if helium can.

He realises it is becoming progressively hard for British managers to get jobs successful the Premier League.

Moyes himself was replaced astatine West Ham by erstwhile Spain and Real Madrid manager Julen Lopetegui, portion British trio Steve Cooper, Gary O'Neil and Russell Martin person each mislaid their top-flight jobs successful the existent campaign, and been replaced by coaches from the Netherlands, Portugal and Croatia respectively.

Asked if the deficiency of accidental for home-grown coaches is simply a concern, Moyes replied: "Absolutely.

"It is becoming overmuch much hard for them to get the accidental to negociate the clubs who triumph much and springiness them a accidental to beryllium successful. Eddie Howe is doing a superb occupation astatine Newcastle.

"The Premier League is unique. It is seen passim the world. Every manager wants to person a spell astatine being successful the Premier League due to the fact that of the intensity, enactment and sum and the level of players.

"We person had immoderate superb managers successful this league but not each of them tally the course. Pep [Guardiola, Manchester City boss] is doing a large occupation but determination are different managers, immoderate of the champion successful the world, who person not been capable to instrumentality it retired successful the Premier League for antithetic reasons.

"Part of my relation astatine the LMA I consciousness is to effort and find oregon assistance young coaches get jobs successful the large leagues successful Europe.

"We person to get much managers managing successful Italy, Spain, France oregon Germany due to the fact that we person not been peculiarly bully astatine getting British coaches successful those leagues."

Moyes, famously, was fixed a accidental astatine 1 of England's biggest clubs but lasted little than 10 months astatine Manchester United.

The issues which United person encountered since past overgarment Moyes' hard Old Trafford tenure successful a somewhat much favourable light.

While his seventh-place Premier League decorativeness was deemed unacceptable, it was amended than Erik 10 Hag managed past play - and overmuch higher than wherever his aged nine presently find themselves.

However, helium resists the thought that existent Red Devils brag Ruben Amorim should find himself nether unit aft lone 11 games.

"To accidental to a manager 'We are giving you six months oregon a twelvemonth successful the occupation to spot however you do', I don't deliberation that is correct," Moyes said.

"I deliberation the radical who enactment managers successful spot person to basal by their judgement, support their managers and springiness them a accidental to bash the job.

"Let's beryllium fair, Manchester United successful immoderate ways is simply a one-off.

"The unit you are nether astatine Manchester United is greater than it is astatine astir clubs. When you are successful that role, you person to judge that is however it is going to be.

"But it is not the manager's responsibility astatine the moment. The manager is inactive uncovering his mode and trying to tiptoe into the job."