Great club players becoming managers.

[Pilchards]

Listening to talksport this morning and they mentioned Berkamp was doing some coaching at Ajax and would be ideal to take over at Arsenal one day.

 

At Southampton we've never really had a great club player that could come back to manage us since Alan Ball.

The future?

only Marian Pahars is the only one that's going great guns.

 

Why is this?

 

thoughts please....

[Crazy Diamond]

Le Tissier said he and Benali wanted to take over but Lowe offered them pitiful wages, less than the great man would have got from working on Soccer Saturday. He also said he went to do coaching badges and thought it was a massive waste of time!

[Minty]

Great players *might* make great managers, but will have very little to do with their playing ability.

 

The oft-repeated line is that great players command respect as a manager. That is true initially and to some extent, but only until the manager shows whether they deserve respect as a manager, which is judged on their tactics, man-management and results. Plenty of good players have failed as managers, and equally, most of the better managers were not what I would call 'great' players.

[Saint Mikey]

Le Tissier said he and Benali wanted to take over but Lowe offered them pitiful wages, less than the great man would have got from working on Soccer Saturday. He also said he went to do coaching badges and thought it was a massive waste of time!

 

This is not what happened. He was offered a job as a specialist coach, but turned it down as the wages were more on Soccer Saturday. Him and Benali were never even interviewed for the manager's job, which is a good thing, as they both would have been appalling and ruined their 'legend' status.

[Crazy Diamond]

This is not what happened. He was offered a job as a specialist coach, but turned it down as the wages were more on Soccer Saturday. Him and Benali were never even interviewed for the manager's job

 

I seem to recall reading it in Taking Le Tiss.