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De Boer would love to manage in the Premier League

Frank de Boer is keen to take charge of a Premier League side as he looks to get his career back on track after an unsuccessful spell as Inter coach.

The Dutchman turned down Liverpool in the past, while he was also linked with clubs such as Tottenham, Newcastle, Swansea and Hull in recent years.

"I would love to manage here (in the Premier League)," De Boer was quoted as saying by Daily Mail.

"But the project has to be right.

"I told Liverpool I was honoured but I was only one year in at Ajax, it was too soon. I needed to achieve more, and I did."

"Leaving Ajax after 25 years as player, coach and manager was hard, but sometimes you are saying the same things, you need a new challenge, like Pep [Guardiola]," De Boer added.

"But at Inter I had to deal with so many things away from football, you lose energy. Every time you thought, 'Finally, a good result, everything has calmed down', then comes Mauro Icardi's book (that caused a storm of criticism) or Marcelo Brozovic is in the discotheque and you have to punish him.

"We only had three months but honestly, it felt like a year."