New Year’s honor recipient David Moyes has described his former players at West Ham as “brilliant” and suggested he would not return to a job at the top or bottom of the Premier League.

Moyes won the Conference League with the Hammers in 2023 but ended his 44-year professional career in the game after leaving the London Stadium at the end of last season.

“I’ve had a fantastic time at West Ham – big thanks to the people there who helped me get the OBE,” said Moyes. BBC Sport About his reign of over five years in two spells.

“The players there were great and to win the trophy there was special. We have some brilliant managers in this league, but not all of them run the course.

“Some of the best managers in the world haven’t made it in the Premier League for different reasons.”

👏 David Moyes receives an OBE in the King’s New Year’s Honors List!

“I am thrilled to be in this position,” he says. pic.twitter.com/1kt2oeU1yH

— Match of the Day (@BBCMOTD) December 30, 2024

Moyes OBE ‘Incredible’

Former Sunderland, Real Sociedad, Manchester United, Everton and Preston North End boss Moyes has followed in the footsteps of his father David to earn the honour.

“It’s a wonderful honor, it really is,” he said. “I don’t think when you go out in life, you expect to be rewarded with these kinds of things.

“I am thrilled to be in this position. I think first of all about the journey I’ve been on and the people who have helped me, whether it’s been recently or early on, like the teachers at the school letting me go and train with Celtic one day a week. When I was 15 years old and let me drop out of school.

“People have the insight and belief in you to achieve things. Behind all of this, if I have to thank anyone, it would be my family and wife for their unwavering support. My father has received an MBE and is very happy that now He has a son who has received an OBE.”

Congratulations to our former player and manager David Moyes on being awarded an OBE. 💙#pnefc pic.twitter.com/i6sLFF5VyW

— Preston North End FC (@pnefc) December 31, 2024

Moyes ‘not done yet’

Now 61, Moyes experienced one of the most pressured jobs in football during his brief spell at Manchester United – the most successful team in English top-flight history – as he succeeded legendary manager Sir Alex Ferguson in 2013/14.

He kept Preston, Everton and West Ham out of danger since his appointment but faced relegation at the end of his season with Sunderland in 2016/17.

“I don’t consider myself done yet, but I’m definitely enjoying some time,” Scott said. “Football is in my blood, since I was young.

“If there’s a second part to come, so be it. I don’t want to get into something that is too difficult.

“It’s very, very difficult, maybe, to be a top team, (and) I don’t want to be at the bottom of relegation and fight relegation, which I have many times.”