SAM ALLARDYCE HAS SAID THAT HE DOES NOT WANT ANY JOB NOW

Sam Allardyce has claimed it is a “little hasty” for him to return to Premier League management.

But the former England boss declined to rule out a return to football as he admitted he is only on a “break” from the game.

Allardyce has been linked with a comeback at Crystal Palace with Frank De Boer under pressure after three opening defeats without scoring a goal.

The former West Ham and Newcastle boss quit the Selhurst Park job in May and said he was going to retire after saving the club from relegation.

Asked if he would be interested in the job, Allardyce told talkSPORT: “Any club at this early stage of the season wouldn't be of any interest to me at the moment.

"I have been relaxing this summer. I have just had a trip to Hawaii, just watching afar. Went to watch Manchester United on Saturday.

“I wouldn't associate myself with any job at this moment in time. Three games in to the Premier League.

It is a little hasty when people start talking about you coming back into football or me personally.

“At this moment in time, I am very comfortable in my life. My time in the Premier League over many, many years has been tremendously exciting and I have enjoyed every minute.

But taking a break out of football at that time was the right thing for me to do.

I am just watching Premier League football with great interest and watching how it is panning out.

"And not living under the great pressure that every manager in the Premier League is living under today.

And those pressures are gettting bigger and bigger because of the size of the money, the size of the transfers, the size of the wages.”

Allardyce was paid a £2m bonus for keeping Palace up last season – but he would have to repay that sum if he took another job within two years of leaving the South London club.

And he called for Dutchman De Boer to be given more time as his successor.
“Do I have sympathy for Frank De Boer? Yes absolutely,” he said.

"All managers who don't start the Premier League very well, speculation evolves almost immediately.

And of course the pressures of the job and the expectations for every club starting this season.

"Time is of the essence. You have got to try and find whoever is down there – West Ham are down there at the moment as well – find the right solution with the players that you have got to get the club going. One win can trigger you going into another.

“If you look at Stoke last season, I think it was seven or eight games before Mark got his first win on the board and then they finished in one of their highest places in the Premier League.

“It is early days. I think people need a little bit of patience. It will obviously worry those clubs but they all have to work together to try to get it right.”