Former Saints manager Harry Redknapp feels he still has plenty to offer football – but only after turning down a “mind-blowing” offer to coach abroad.
The 68-year-old handed in his resignation at QPR in February, citing knee problems behind the decision to leave the Premier League strugglers.
Redknapp later claimed “people with their own agendas” had a hand in his departure and described the situation at the west London club as “a bit of a soap opera”.
Redknapp will return to the dugout on Sunday, May 31 when he leads a star-studded Men United XI against Leyton Orient Legends, as O’s youth coach and Prostate Cancer UK ambassador Errol McKellar hosts a charity football match at The Matchroom Stadium.
The well-travelled former West Ham, Bournemouth, Portsmouth, Saints and Tottenham manager feels “fit as a fiddle” again following knee surgery and would relish another crack at a full-time job.
“It is difficult to know whether you want to go back in again, but if the right offer came along for the right job then I would consider it, because I do love the game and certainly do miss it,” Redknapp said.
“But unless it was the right job I would not bother. It has got to be something which I really wanted to do.
“It would not be a case of the money. I had an offer earlier this week to go and work abroad where the money was incredible, a mind-blowing offer, but at the moment it did not interest me.
“'I have my wife here, my grandkids and everything else, so it has got to be something I wanted to do.
“I don't have to work any more if I don't want to at my age, but I feel fit as a fiddle and if I could go into a club somewhere, maybe try to get them up from the Championship or somewhere in the Premier League, then I might be interested.
“I could even work with a younger coach to help them and they could then take over as manager in a year or two, to help build the club up.”
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