Louis van Gaal targets Premier League job

Netherlands manager Louis van Gaal has revealed that he sees the English Premier League as the next step in his career.

The Dutch coach said that Tottenham Hotspur have contacted him in the past, but admitted he could join a different club after this summer's World Cup finals.

"I am mostly interested in England because I have been a coach in Spain, Germany, in the Netherlands, so I think England is the next step in my career," The Mirror quotes him as saying.

"Spurs? It could be another club - it depends on the vacancies, because Spurs was already with me.

"I prefer to be focused on this World Cup and now there's another coach [at Spurs], so as coach you cannot say I go to that club or that club, it depends on circumstances and the vacancies."

Van Gaal was heavily linked with the Spurs job prior to the appointment of Tim Sherwood on an 18-month contract.