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McManaman is currently retired from his playing career after being released by his final contracted playing club since 2003, Manchester City F.C., on 20 May, 2005. McManaman has personally reported that he has been working on Goal! 2, the sequel to Goal!, a movie which stars Alessandro Nivola becoming a fictional superstar at Newcastle United. McManaman wrote the following in the Daily Telegraph in February 2006: "The second part follows his move to Real Madrid, filmed with my former team-mates at the Bernabeu. I'm helping to choreograph the training-ground action shots, check for authenticity in the dressing-room, and so on. The director (Danny Cannon) gave me a cameo role. I was told to do lots of manic high-fives..."

McManaman has since also been active as a media commentator and pundit, and has provided analyses for ITV media for the 2005 Champions League Final, and for ESPN Star in Asia in 2006, where McManaman's experience both as a former Premiership star as well as in Spain have enabled him to analyse the game in Europe in depth. In an interview with ESPN in 2004 he also expressed interest in being a club manager and claimed to be obtaining his coaching badges.