Ryan Giggs admits he "didn't really get involved" with coaching under David Moyes at Manchester United, despite becoming a member of the Scot's backroom team shortly after his appointment.
Moyes took over from the legendary Sir Alex Ferguson in the United hotseat in 2013, but the former Everton boss failed to see out the full 2013/14 season as the Red Devils struggled under his stewardship.
Indeed, it was Giggs who took temporary charge after Moyes was sacked, but he says he hadn't do much coaching prior to his temporary appointment.
“It was a little bit different," Giggs told the new episode of the UTD podcast.
"I was already distancing myself from the players, but I was 39, 40, so did I have anything in common with the younger players? Not really, but obviously you’re in the dressing room and still teammates.
“I was doing my Pro Licence in Turkey when David Moyes rang to ask me to join him as a coach. I thought ‘this could be my last season’ and I wanted to concentrate on that, but I also realised this was my next step, so I took it.
“But actually I was really still a player, I didn’t really get involved (with the coaching). I didn’t take one session because I was playing, so you can’t.
“I was involved in the meetings and went in early to training, but even that became difficult because you’d arrive an hour and a half before and I had a routine in which I’d get ready for training, so even that was getting more and more difficult.
“My relationship with the players didn’t change, I’d just come down from the meeting and they’d ask me ‘what are we doing today?’”
After his retirement at a player, Giggs went on to form a much more active member of the coaching staff under Moyes' successor Louis van Gaal.
Giggs, now the manager of Wales, credits Van Gaal with helping him evolve as a coach, and says he enjoyed his time with the Dutchman.
"They [Moyes and Van Gaal] had a different approach, they were different people with different personalities and that’s why I always talk about Louis really regarding my coaching, because for two years I was in the meetings with that responsibility," he continued.
“I talk so fondly of him because that was my first proper coaching role. When you’re playing, you don’t really know about all the preparation or what the manager has seen on the videos, watching the opposition.
“The coaching staff would watch hours and hours of it. It was completely different, including the man management and the sort of things Sir Alex would do that I picked up on.
“But with Louis I could see first hand the different systems and why he’d play the different systems. The reasons for this and the reasons for that, it was a really good experience.”
