Gary Neville has no intention of returning to coaching in next five years

Gary Neville endured a difficult time as Valencia manager last season

Gary Neville has revealed he will turn his back on coaching for at least the next five years while expressing his regret at not being able to continue his work with England.

The former Manchester United right-back endured a difficult four months after taking his first managerial post at Valencia last season, before then resuming his role as assistant manager to Roy Hodgson with the national side at Euro 2016.

That disappointing campaign, which ended in defeat to lowly Iceland, saw Hodgson and Neville leave their roles and Neville has since returned to Sky Sports to resume his punditry on Monday Night Football while he is also joint-owner of Vanarama National League North side Salford City.

Neville and Roy Hodgson left their England posts after Euro 2016

"I've committed now. I put two or three things on hold while I was in Valencia and in the summer," he told the Mail on Sunday.

"And obviously, after the summer I was, 'Right, these projects go and we go with them now'. And they're going. And I'm too integrated into them and at the forefront to go and do something else."

On a potential return to coaching, he added: "You can never say never but I think it is unlikely you'll see me step back into a coaching role, certainly in the next five years. So the reality is that I probably am consigning myself to no coaching position, unless in five years I wake up and say, 'Actually, I'd like to do something locally' and something happens.

Gary Neville and Jamie Carragher preview Monday Night Football's Liverpool v Manchester United game. Gary Neville and Jamie Carragher preview Monday Night Football's Liverpool v Manchester United game.

'But, honestly, at this moment I can't see it at all. I'm far more passionate about those things I'm doing and Salford City than I am about coaching."

Despite England's miserable failing in France during the summer, Neville insists they were going in the right direction under Hodgson - though he accepts their position was untenable after the Iceland defeat.

"Absolutely - and unless you don't qualify, you're only ever be judged on a tournament," he added.

Neville has since returned to Sky Sports

"And the sadness for me watching in the last couple of months and since the tournament is that it definitely was the right direction. But when you lose a game like Iceland, you lose the right to have a say any more.

"The reality, what people will work out in time, is that the direction of travel was correct, the identification of the right players was correct, the system and the style of players was correct but not always the end result."

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