Former Manchester United midfielder Owen Hargreaves isn't ready to hang up the boots just yet.

He will join BT Sport's coverage of the Barclays Premier League and begin his coaching qualifications, but has no desire to rush into management.

"Too many managers go in and coach too young," he told the Daily Mail. "The American football way is for a lot of those guys to learn their craft over a 10-year period.

"Clubs can take players and develop them and let them see different parts of the management side, like Patrick Vieira at City, and slowly give them more responsibility rather than just, 'Here, you take the reins'.

"There are many examples of hugely successful players taking that responsibility and being out of the game before they've started - Gareth Southgate, Alan Shearer, Roy Keane, Bryan Robson, some of the best players this country's ever seen.

"For them not to be given the opportunity to do it longer I find quite remarkable. Germany is pretty sensible. It's a very structured environment. I learned so much being there. I picked up good habits."