West Ham boss David Moyes has ruled himself out of the running to take the Celtic job following Neil Lennon's departure earlier this week.
The Hammers are flying high in the league, sitting in fourth place, and Moyes has no intention of heading to his former club in Scotland.
Moyes was a Celtic player between 1980 and 1983, winning the Scottish League title with the Parkhead club in 1982, but the lure of a return to his homeland is not enough to see the Hammers boss head back up north:
"I’ve got no intentions of going anywhere," said Moyes. "I’ve already spoken to David Sullivan, we’re up to date and things are quietly ticking along.
"I don’t want anything to get in the way of what we’re doing just now. I’m not going to come out and say I’m signing a big contract or doing anything else that in any way might change things around. I just really want to go about the job and try and be professional.
"I am really happy here, I enjoy the people I work with and there has been great improvement on and off the field here at West Ham. I’m hoping to continue making them better and hopefully, we can start to sustain a level of League position that we’re in at the moment."
Moyes provided a further update on his West Ham contract situation confirming that there is a clause that is bound to be activated provided his team avoids an unlikely late-season collapse:
"The truth is that I’ve got something if we finish I think it’s above 13th where automatically it kicks in anyway if I choose - it’s still my choosing," Moyes added.
"As I said, there’s no big panic, and I don’t feel under any pressure with it. I don’t want anybody at the club or anybody else to feel under pressure by it because it’s not, we’ll get it sorted."
West Ham are currently 13 points ahead of Crystal Palace in 13th and Moyes is most certainly looking up the table not down as he aims to qualify for Europe next season:
"We have got ourselves in a position where we are not going to get relegated this season and we are not going to be talked about as a relegation side, we are now being talked about as a European side in some way, which is a remarkable turnaround from where we have been, so I am enjoying that. We want to try and hang in there," he said.
The final third of the season starts for the Hammers on Saturday with a visit to league leaders Manchester City, the only team in the league with a better record in 2021 than West Ham and Moyes is aware of the challenge ahead:
"Everybody knows the quality of Manchester City, we see it week in and week out at the moment. Pep [Guardiola] has a full squad, he can pick whoever he likes, he can chop and change.
"Obviously, they have a really full schedule because of the amount of games they have got, So we have to make the most of that. It is slightly different for us as we don't have European games, I hope we do in the future, but we don't at the moment but we have to try and make the most of us having a chance to prepare for the game and be as good as we can and go there in a positive mind frame."
