Following Brendan Rodgers' sacking earlier this month, Martin O'Neill has revealed he held interest in the vacant Leicester City job.
The former Republic of Ireland manager previously enjoyed a successful five-year spell with the Foxes from 1995-2000, winning two league cup titles and reaching another final.
He later went on to achieve further success at Celtic and Aston Villa before becoming Ireland boss in 2013, a role he held for five years.
Although he had a brief stint with Nottingham Forrest in 2019, O'Neill has been without a job since then.
Despite not having been in contact with Leicester, he acknowledges that he would have been tempted to take the role on a short-term basis had he been approached. However, the job ultimately went to former Norwich boss Dean Smith.
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"If they had asked me, which they didn’t, I think that would have been interesting because you feel as if you could have got some points on the board," said O'Neill at a media conference to promote Viaplay TV’s coverage of Sunday’s Scottish Cup semi-final between Celtic and Rangers
"I'm not saying it would have been a long-term thing. I would have thought about it anyway. And since Roy Hodgson is now 114 and Neil Warnock is 112, I think I am quite young!
"But, listen, I have not been proactive in any aspect of that and I’m actually kind of semi-enjoying myself."
Just last month the former boss also was asked if he had held talks with Leicester about a possible return, O’Neill told talkSPORT: “It’s interesting, no. The answer is no, there wasn’t any contact.”
City next play Everton at the King Power Stadium on Monday in a relegation six-pointer. (8pm kick-off),
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