How many top players have made good managers?

[Icy Gull]

Not too many that I can think of. Weren't Ferguson and Wenger average footballers?

Bobby Charlton, Bobby Moore, Jimmy Case, were crap

Souness, Graham and Strachan are not bad

Tony Adams - The jury is still out, unless you follow Gareth Glover's tips when you are looking at a future England manager

Micky Adams has yet to prove it at the highest level and just how good was he as a player?

 

[BensGrandad]

Bobby Robson ex England wing half while at Fulham.
George Graham
Terry Venables
Glen Hoddle

to name just afew

 

[CHAPPERS]

Bobby Robson
Dino Zoff

 

[¤DãŃn¥ §êãGüLL¤]

Keegan, although I wouldn't call him a great manager

 

[Icy Gull]

Jimmy Hill anyone - he did get Coventry into Div 1 and they'd been there for longer than anyone except Arsenal I think, before they went down again

 

[Wilts]

Steve Coppell! Superb winger and quality record as a manager!

 

[Marshy]

Steve Coppell! Superb winger and quality record as a manager!

How did i know that was coming !

 

[Wilts]

How did i know that was coming !

If I didn't then I'm sure Brighton Rock would have got in quick!

 

[On the Left Wing]

Brian Clough

 

[JJ McClure]

Keegan, although I wouldn't call him a great manager

I'd call him an utter shite manager

 

[Icy Gull]

Brian Clough

Good call - the best imo and no mean player either

 

[Life After Bobby]

certainly Brian Clough
Kenny Dalgleish
Martin O'Neill
potentially Steve Bruce

 

[On the Left Wing]

certainly Brian Clough
Kenny Dalgleish
Martin O'Neill
potentially Steve Bruce

I think the jury is out on Dalglish .... A brilliant player ... one of the best but in IMHO as a manager he inherited a great squad at Liverpool, bought the title at Blackburn with Jack's cash in a piss poor season, then f***ed up Newcastle United and did the same at Celtic.

Also remember he walked out of two of those jobs when the going got too tough for him.

 

[Life After Bobby]

I think the jury is out on Dalglish .... A brilliant player ... one of the best but in IMHO as a manager he inherited a great squad at Liverpool, bought the title at Blackburn with Jack's cash in a piss poor season, then f***ed up Newcastle United and did the same at Celtic.

Also remember he walked out of two of those jobs when the going got too tough for him.

know what you're saying, but even with a great squad, you don't necessarily win and boy did he win, being the first player/manager to do the league/cup double (at a time when it still meant something)

 

[Uncle Buck]

I think the jury is out on Dalglish .... A brilliant player ... one of the best but in IMHO as a manager he inherited a great squad at Liverpool, bought the title at Blackburn with Jack's cash in a piss poor season, then f***ed up Newcastle United and did the same at Celtic.

Also remember he walked out of two of those jobs when the going got too tough for him.

Ummm, I think you still have some work to do, however good the squad and he managed that. Also it was an ageing squad at Liverpool.

Agree to an extent regarding Blackburn, but then he still had to find a system and motivate the players, look at Chelsea, all the money in the world and yet last season they never looked like winning the league under Claudio.

Newcastle is an odd one. He had sorted out the defence and when he was sacked after 2 games they were unbeaten and it seemed the board fancied more attacking football and went with the joke that is Guilt. This backfired on them. If Dalglish had been given more time there, I suspect they would have been a Champions League side a lot quicker than it took, as Robson had to sort out a lot of problems left behind by Guilt.

Cannot disagree with Celtic, other than it is always funny when that lot f*** up.

 

[The Wookiee]

Alan Mullery

 

[Strike]

The one and only Sir Alf Ramsey

Donkey player/ manager nomination Bryan Robson.

 

[(was)DBS]

Our very own MM

 

[Seagull over NZ]

I would have thought this argument is exactly why people say Hoddle ultimately is not a good manager.

Used to get frustrated that the players couldn't learn things he could do in his sleep.

Think average players like Ferguson always had to work hard and thus can transfer that onto the training ground.

 

[On the Left Wing]

Jack Charlton