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Following the sacking of Michael Laudrup it got me thinking.Do great players make great managers? I can't think of many if any at all what's everyone else's take on this.

Kevin Keegan.

Brian Clough was a great player whose career was cut short.

Roberto Mancini.

Beckenbauer

Patrick Vieira (in the making)

Johan Cruyff.
Barry Fry.

Obvious one. Guardiola.

Dalglish

Don Revie, Joe Mercer, Matt Busby (apologies).

Answer is yes then?

Define "great."

In answer to the original question, great players don't make great managers and the minority listed don't outway the majority..,Fergiscum, Wenger etc

Shit players make great managers. So do some average ones. And some great ones.

It's more or less totally irrelevant often. There are more average/shit players than great ones though so the chances are the vast majority of managers will appear to be formerly average footballers....and most great players don't go into management cos they've already made their millions and settle into cushy pundit jobs or something.

ps - Ancelotti.

twosips wrote:Shit players make great managers. So do some average ones. And some great ones.

It's more or less totally irrelevant often. There are more average/shit players than great ones though so the chances are the vast majority of managers will appear to be formerly average footballers....and most great players don't go into management cos they've already made their millions and settle into cushy pundit jobs or something.

I think it's simpler than that. Footy comes naturally to the greats, so they never need to become tactics-heads to fulfill their potential.

Players like Barry and Carrick, on the other hand, probably take tactics and discipline very seriously and you can imagine them making good coaches.

Nasser Hussain in his autobiography made a similar point about Ian Botham: he was so talented that cricket was instinctive and he never developed the brain of a good coach or selector.

David Moyes!

Sorry thought it said shit players shit managers.

DoomMerchant wrote:Define "great."

This.

Riijkard, anyone?

chrizzer wrote:Beckenbauer

I would agree but Franz was too canny to try club management