GIGGS SAYS HE HAD NOTHING TO DO WITH MANCHESTER UNITED'S COACHING PLANS DURING DAVID MOYES ' SPELL

Former Manchester United midfielder Ryan Giggs revealed that he had nothing to do with the club's coaching plans during David Moyes reign, despite being named as part of the coaching set-up.

Moyes took over from Sir Alex Ferguson at Old Trafford in 2013 with heaps of pressure on his shoulders, following on from United's greatest ever manager. The Scot did not see out the 2013/14 season with the Red Devils and was sacked after a poor run of form.

Whilst Giggs did take over in temporary charge of the club after Moyes' sacking, he admitted he had nothing to do with the coaching before the former Everton manager's departure.

'It was a little bit different,' Giggs told 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?'

Giggs' tenure in the United hot-seat was short-lived, as the club appointed then-Holland manager Louis van Gaal during the summer of the 2014 World Cup.

The Welshman took on a much more active role under van Gaal's leadership, which he hails as a 'really good experience'.

'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.'