Sam Allardyce is open to remaining in charge at Leeds despite the club’s relegation from the Premier League.

Big Sam was unable to pull off a great escape at Elland Road and their season ended with a 4-1 defeat against Tottenham despite Jack Harrison’s goal.

The 68-year-old plans to hold discussions about his future “in the next few days” and insists that if he remains in management, it will be at Leeds.

“There's lots of opportunity when we can sit down and when we get over the disappointment of getting relegated,” he told Leeds Live.

“The last thing I wanted is to be the man that took Leeds United down. I tried all we possibly could try to get the players to do and get better results – me, Karl (Robinson) and Robbie (Keane), who came alongside me at a short period of notice. I’m very grateful for that.

“Even though I'm hugely disappointed, I’m still grateful for the opportunity. What we've tried to do hasn't been good enough in terms of the results.

“But I thought we tried all we could try to get to get better results out of the players, we’ve just not been able to achieve it.”

Southampton and Leicester have also been relegated from the top flight, with Everton narrowly surviving following a dramatic 1-0 win against Bournemouth at Goodison Park.

“I think overall you need to sit down and discuss the whole infrastructure of the club and how you can take what you've got and build on it,” Allardyce added. “That will have to be in the Championship now.

“But there's many things and many factors that have to be put into place for a football club to reap long-term success. There is short term and long term, and most of it comes down to how good your players are.

“These players have tried very hard while I’ve been here and I can't fault their efforts. But as a squad, they haven’t been good enough by the fact that they're in the bottom three in the Premier League.

“I would have hoped I could have gotten a little bit more out of them, so I take responsibility for that.

“But it's a tough old world when things start failing and confidence starts going, then it's very difficult to claw it back on we've been unable to do that.

“You have to just put that behind you, come back and be more determined in terms of what we're going to achieve next year, in terms of what and how you get out to the Championship.”