Former England manager Glenn Hoddle rules himself out of running for vacant West Ham job

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Glenn Hoddle has ruled himself out of becoming the next West Ham manager following Avram Grant‘s dismissal.

The Hammers were relegated on the penultimate game of the Premier League season and Grant was sacked in the aftermath, but Hoddle has distanced himself from rumours touting him as a potential successor.

He said: “At the moment I don’t think the timing is right, put it that way.”

The former England boss has spent much of his recent time working on The Glenn Hoddle Academy, a venture aimed at giving young footballers a second chance after being released by their clubs.

Despite his work with his academy, Hoddle is not ruling out an eventual return to management.

He continued: “I’ve never said that I have finished with football management at any level. That is something that might be for the future and I didn’t replace that with my football academy.

“The guys needed something of a second chance to get back into the game and we’re proving we are doing that quite reasonably well.”

Hoddle added that managing a national side is a particularly tempting proposition for him but reiterated that his academy was his most pressing concern at the moment.

“In the future, I’ve always said international football would be interesting for me after doing it with England,” he continued.

“And who is to say at some stage in some way, shape or form in the future going back into mainstream management is not something I am saying no to.”