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The Class of '92 have planted a tank on Manchester United's lawn with Hotel Football but they might have to wait a while to complete their coup.

Ryan Giggs and Gary Neville's names are high up on bookies' chalkboards to succeed Louis van Gaal, however United are unlikely to make another idealistic and blinkered managerial appointment so soon after David Moyes'.

"I have not bought Martial for me, I have bought him for the next manager of Manchester United," Van Gaal said at Old Trafford cricket ground in September, introducing Giggs. Van Gaal has been blowing a lot of hot air as United blow cold and it extends to the matter of who could replace him. Unlike Sir Alex Ferguson, Van Gaal will not be choosing the next United manager.

Just as well, some Reds might think, but the likelihood is when Van Gaal goes, so does his assistant Giggs. Pep Guardiola and Carlo Ancelotti are the prime candidates to become the 23rd United manager, with Argentines Diego Simeone and Mauricio Pochettino lower down the list.

As the suits in those east stand offices that overlook the forecourt where Sir Matt Busby and his Holy Trinity are immortalised ponder who the club's next manager should be, Giggs' future appears to lie away from Old Trafford. United simply cannot afford to select someone who is less qualified to manage the club than Moyes.

Giggs might, in time, have his own statue outside of Old Trafford and the reception he enjoyed when he emerged against Norwich in 2014 was reminiscent of the days when the ground was louder than the roar of a jumbo jet preparing to take off. Giggs, though, is also a relic of not just the feted Ferguson era but the Moyes error. The Welshman is tarred with both brushes and Ferguson's own legacy has, despite the amount of books he has released, been marred by Moyes' handling of his squad and Van Gaal's dismantling of it.

Had he been aware of Ferguson's retirement plans, it is debatable whether Giggs would have extended his playing career, never mind countenanced Steve Round's training sessions. When Giggs signed his last playing contract in March 2013, Ferguson had decided that season would be his last and, ironically, he did his protégé no favours by saddling him with Moyes and his men. Giggs is close to the throne, but so is Prince Andrew.

One United supporter on Wednesday tweeted a poll that asked: What's the best preparation for managing Manchester United Football Club? The choices were 'Number 2 at MUFC' and 'Manage Valencia'. The latter earned 76 per cent.

As a pundit, Neville struggled when defending Moyes. His appointment was 'a result for sanity' and United were implored to 'stand against the immediacy of modern life' and not sack him. Neville was compromised by his brother, Phil's involvement at the club, however he was not officially associated with United and he was not as reckless an analyst as Paul Scholes.

He might be a pupil of the Class of Peter Lim, but Neville has taken a commendable plunge by moving to a new country to coach a club in danger of Champions League ejection next week. Others continue to spout their agenda, rather than manage Oldham, while Neville prepares to scrutinise his players against Barcelona.

Neville is about to undertake a crash-course is management. Lim might be his co-owner - and now employer - but he is worth $1.91billion and previously showed interest in taking over Liverpool and United. Valencia are ninth and behind Eibar. Lim demands better.

Irrespective of how Valencia finish under Neville, he is better poised to manage United than Giggs. Giggs has played second fiddle to two managers who have exasperated supporters and is in danger of stagnating at United.

Judging by the interactions and activity in United's dugout, Albert Stuivenberg might even be the de facto assistant. Neville has kept his distance and, despite his mates' coaching stints at the club, is not tainted. A more experienced coach, he has the edge on Giggs. He has played the political game as well as he did as a right-back.

The Nevilles earned the nickname 'busy c***s' at United and Valencia's players might have already translated the moniker. Neville is a hotelier, eco-architect, businessman, pundit, father, columnist, England coach, club owner and now a manager. He has that relentless drive Ferguson possessed, rising at 6am, first in at The Cliff and then Carrington, and the last out. Neville's wife, Emma, complained in the recent Salford City documentary about being awoken by her husband's flashing iPad. "You don't want to know what time it is," she said.

England might also beckon for Neville after his stint in Valencia. He is, arguably, the most exciting English-born candidate to replace Roy Hodgson after Euro 2016 and will have had the benefit of spending four years working with the players.

Neville is such an unabashed United fan his CV might be penned in red ink, and the continental and international experience would polish it.

It could be Red Nev planting the flag in United's lawn.