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Tom Victor

Inside Gary Neville's Valencia spell: Alex Ferguson advice, horror run and 'naive' errors

Gary Neville's forgettable stint as Valencia manager finished almost as suddenly as it started, with the Spanish club pulling the plug on his stint after just four months.

Many who followed football at the time will recall their surprise at seeing the Sky Sports pundit given the top job at the Mestalla in December 2015. While his brother Phil was part of the coaching staff, having served under recently-departed manager Nuno Espirito Santo, Gary's experience was just as thin.

The new boss had worked with the England team under Roy Hodgson, but was already better known for his punditry work. He would return to that work after leaving Spain, to the point that his four months at the helm might be easy to forget had he not owned up to the mistakes he made when finding his feet at one of Europe's top clubs.

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