David Moyes is ready to return, but where?

Newcastle and West Ham seem like clubs who could attract Moyes

David Moyes spoke to the BBC last week and has said he is ready to return to football management, but where might he land?

Things did not go according to plan for David Moyes last season but he is looking to get back into football after an enforced absence.

David Moyes wants to return to top level management at a club involved in European competition, but where could the former Everton and Manchester United boss resurface after six months of recharging his batteries?

The fairly disastrous ten months he had at Old Trafford are fresher in the mind than the successful eleven years that went before at Goodison Park while the improvement that can be seen at Everton under his replacement Roberto Martinez has also hurt his legacy.

Top clubs have not exactly been beating his door down to offer him a chance for redemption.

The Scot has not been idle in the last few months, although he did spurn offers from the BBC and ITV to cover the World Cup as part of their commentary and punditry teams in Brazil.

He instead chose to offer his expertise on the tournament to beIn Sport in Doha, sitting alongside Richard Keys and Andy Gray, the former Sky Sports duo who have faced a similar fall from the top echelons of Premier League coverage.

It looks like being a long road back to the very top for 51-year-old Moyes and he may never get as good an opportunity as the United job ever again.

While in Doha in June, Moyes heard that Roberto Mancini had been sacked by Galatasaray and the Turkish giants were looking for a new foreign coach.

He re-routed his return to Manchester through Istanbul to offer his services to the Gala president, a meeting that was officially described as an "exchange of ideas" so as not to damage Moyes' standing further when the Turks eventually chose ex-Italy coach Cesare Prandelli.

Over three months later and the Glaswegian is still out of work. There have been stories in the media, where Moyes still has many friends, linking him to vacancies at Celtic and Tottenham, but both clubs opted for less experienced, foreign coaches.

And, in this era where overseas influences on the Premier League have made foreign appointments fashionable, you could ask - is David Moyes too British to get a top job now?

Seven of the top eight clubs from last season are now managed by foreign coaches and opportunities for home-grown coaches appear to be limited to mid-ranking sides, albeit there are a couple with huge potential.

Newcastle United and West Ham United appear to be those most likely to move for Moyes if they seek a change at the top.

It is more than two years since Alan Pardew led the Magpies to a superb fifth-place finish and a couple of points away from a Champions League return.

Since then, the North East giants have been in the wilderness and with fans demonstrating in a bid to oust the manager, Moyes could soon be in line for a call from Mike Ashley.

The West Ham job appears to be off limits to Moyes at the moment, not least because Sam Allardyce has ridden out the fan flak and taken the Hammers to the lofty heights of the top four.

But he and Big Sam are known to be friends off the field - making any potential move to fill Allardyce's shoes ahead of a move to the Olympic Stadium seem like an act of treachery that a man of Moyes' principles would not countenance.

The Scot was pictured shaking hands with Hammers co-owner David Sullivan before West Ham's game with Burnley on Saturday, but his presence there was not to stalk a fellow LMA member in trouble, but to meet up with a friend to celebrate Allardyce's 60th birthday.

Premier League chairmen usually get trigger happy in the winter months when patience can wear thin and managers pay the price for the failings of squads assembled last summer so, until then, it's a waiting game for Moyes - a man who has never been out of the professional game for as long as this in 35 years as a player or manager.