Thierry Henry has not ruled out heading back into club management after spending five years in the international game with Belgium and France. The former Arsenal academy coach and legendary forward has, largely, spent time with France, the nation's youth set-up, and Belgium.

Since retiring, Henry has found numerous ways to remain involved in football. Primarily a TV pundit these days, he has been a regular contributor for Sky Sports and America's CBS coverage of the Champions League.

Now, after leading France to the Olympics final over the summer, Henry is still open to following Steven Gerrard and Frank Lampard back into the domestic game. His last job for a club was the brief stint at Montreal - where he lasted just 29 matches.

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"I don't have a problem with testing myself at club level," he told Jamie Carragher on Monday Night Football. "It's going to have to be something that's right, which before like I said to you because I was looking to tick [the box], like I knew I could but can I [prove it]. It's a bit different now."

Henry went on: "I'm going to have to assess the situation and see what is going to be and where it's going to be. You need to understand something because it's like, you saw [Jurgen] Klopp stopping, obviously we're talking about the greats here, I don't even know why I'm doing this but I'm just saying, Pep [Guardiola] stopped also [with] a sabbatical year."

It has almost been 10 years since Henry called time on his playing career, but he has already returned to Monaco, where he made his name in the mid-1990s before signing for Arsenal. That experience in Ligue 1 was poor, though, with it being another disappointingly short spell.

Instead, employed as assistant for Belgium, Henry has taken another route into management. Speaking honestly about the issues he faces, he continued: "You know how tough it is for a coach. It is tough.

"People don't take all that into consideration, how tough it is on your family, how tough it is on moving your kids somewhere and then you get the sack and then you go home and people don't care what's happening to you and your family because often people don't care about culture.

"Before, the caring for a coach is before. 'Are you going to do that? Are you going to take care of your family'?

"Once you go in, like I always say, you have got to keep the engine running. You never know when you're going to need that car to go to the airport or to the train station. I'm open to anything, anything, but it's going to have to be something that makes sense for me and my family. That's very important."

A host of Premier League jobs have become available in the last month with Wolves and Southampton sacking Russell Martin and Gary O'Neill over the weekend. Leicester City also moved on from Steve Cooper - but they've already replaced him with Ruud van Nistelrooy.