Former Tottenham Hotspur and QPR manager Harry Redknapp is looking for the right club with which to make a return to management and says he turned down an "incredible" offer from a side abroad earlier this week.
Redknapp resigned from his post at QPR in February after a knee problem meant he was required to undergo surgery. And in the thick of a relegation battle in the Premier League, the 68-year-old felt that meant he could not give his all to the R's cause.
Now the former Spurs manager, who led the White Hart Lane club into the Champions League during his time in charge, is eyeing a return to management. But it must be a move which appeals and he will not simply answer the call of big money, he says.
Speaking to Press Association Sport via ITV, Redknapp explained: "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.
"But unless it was the right job I would not bother. It has got to be something which I really wanted to do.
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"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."
Redknapp also revealed that he would be quite willing to drop down into the Championship, while mentoring a younger manager is something which appeals too.
"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; that is something which would interest me but we will have to wait and see what comes along", Redknapp added.
The veteran manager counts Bournemouth, West Ham, Portsmouth, Southampton, Tottenham and QPR as his former clubs in management.
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