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West Ham boss David Moyes is full of pride over his work with the club.

Moyes will leave West Ham at the end of the season.

He stated: "As someone who has come in, done a job as expected. Stopping the club getting relegated the second time was difficult and you can see how football can change really quickly.

"Then we've become a European team, now we're expected to become a European team which is some change even for 'journos' in here that'd speak to me regularly, from when they came watching a relegation side to a side which questions are mainly asked around 'Can you qualify for Europe?'.

"I think we've done a really good job that way. I think we've built the club and there's stability there now.

"I've done over one thousand games, I've been in it a long time. I think there's only Sir Alex [Ferguson] and Arsene [Wenger] who have managed more Premier League games than me so that's something to be quite proud of in some way.

"I use the word longevity quite often. It means people thought you were good enough to stay in the job. A lot of mangers come and go very quickly, good managers. To be at that level and do it so long, in a league we consider the best in the world, I'm quite pleased I have done that.

"I hope now I can give a lot back to younger managers. I'm keen on coach education, keen on working with coaching side of it. I'm involved with the League Managers' Association so there's a lot of things hopefully later in life I can choose to do - I'm not sure yet if I want to give up.

"First and foremost would be a break, I want a break from it. When we started last year we won the final on June 7 and we were back on July 1 to go to Australia with three weeks off last year.

"If you look at the amount of games we've played in the last couple of years, little time we've had of a break. I strive to work as hard as I can at every club, I've tried to do that at West Ham as well.

"There's been a lot of hours and effort. The first and most important thing is to have a break. I'm looking forward to working for BBC, TalkSport at the Euros. I want to keep really involved in football. I really love football."

Moyes added: "There are a lot of things in football which can always be done better but I'm really comfortable with the situation, I'm comfortable with the board so at the moment everything is fine... it's football."

This article first appeared on Tribal Football and was syndicated with permission.

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