Neville rules out future coaching roles after failing at Valencia

Former Valencia manager Gary Neville says he has no intention to return to a coaching role in the near future due to his involvement in a number of projects in his post-playing career, including a return to Sky Sports as a pundit.

Neville, once the captain of Manchester United, endured a tumultuous spell in La Liga at the helm of Valencia where he was fired after four months after winning just three of 16 league games in that time.

While Neville's ill-fated tenure ended abruptly, he says he isn't looking to jump back into the coaching fray anytime soon.

"I always say 'never say never' because my love of football is too great, but I genuinely believe it will be very difficult for me to go back into coaching because of my commitment now to so many different things," Neville told Sky Sports.

"I can't go back into coaching now in the short term - the next five years - and the reality of it is I don't want to. It could be that I'm no longer ever a coach in football but that's not a loss. Some people might think it is, but the fact of the matter is it's not to me."

Those commitments, Neville explains, include obligations to Salford City and Hotel Football, as well as restaurants with Michael O'Hare and the St. Michael's development project in Manchester.

While quick to point out that while his time at Valencia wasn't what he hoped it would be, Neville says he also learned a valuable lesson that he hopes to apply to his current projects.

"I cannot open that hotel and blame the general manager for it failing. Why? I appointed the general manager," Neville explains. "I can't go to Spain for four months, be coach of Valencia, and blame the fact there was a difficult dressing room, I didn't speak the language, we had bad luck, and we missed some chances.

"Why? Because I knew I didn't speak the language before I went, I knew it was a difficult dressing room, I knew they had sacked lots of managers, and I didn't deal with it.

"People will always look at that externally and think it was a negative experience. For me personally, I lost football matches but what I gained was general experience of life, culture, and appreciation for a different country."