Sam Allardyce has confirmed that he turned down the chance to talk to Crystal Palace over a return to the club.
Frank de Boer was sacked from the post at Selhurst Park on Monday morning after suffering a fourth successive Premier League loss.
The job will now go to Roy Hodgson , who has agreed a two-year deal to join Palace and is set to be announced in due course.
But Allardyce, who left Palace earlier this summer and was succeeded by De Boer, has admitted that he received a phone call from chairman Steve Parish.
Former England boss Allardyce says that Parish contacted him to find out whether he would be available.
But he claims that he is enjoying his life too much to consider a return to management at this time.
Speaking on Monday Night Football, Allardyce said: "Just to make it clear for everybody and stop the speculation, I spoke to Steve late this afternoon and said that for me, I wouldn't be ready to come back.
"I've made the decision and I wouldn't feel comfortable at this time taking any position as a football manager... as I am enjoying my life too much at the moment, with watching everybody else with the pressure of the Premier League.
"There is certainly great pressure more than ever as we have seen with Frank going so early."
Asked to clarify his conversation with Parish, Allardyce added: "No, he didn't offer me the job, he just asked me, 'What are your thoughts?'
"There is obviously a clever question there, it's not, 'Will you come and take the job?' It was, 'What are you thinking?'
"Obviously, I told him what I was thinking at the moment if he was to offer me the job.
"At this moment in time, I wouldn't want to go back in.