by Victor Meldrew »
09 Oct 2016 18:13
tmesis From Despair To Where? Someone like Giggs is absolutely the last sort of signing a club in Swansea's position should be making.
There's no way of telling what sort of manager Giggs would make, but there is a strange assumption that being a top player will mean you'll be a really good manager. Such a player "might" command respect of the players, but that depends a huge amount on their personality.
Overall though, how many really good managers have had excellent player careers? Look at Guardiola, Wenger, Mourinho, Ferguson, Klopp for example - all were footballing journeymen at best.
The idea that being a famous player is all the qualification anyone needs to be a good manager is daft. I think it was a few years ago that Gareth Southgate was told he needed to get his coaching badges before being a manager, and you had pundit s saying that playing for England was all the qualification you needed.
And today you have Robbie Savage ask what Bob Bradley knows about fighting a relegation battle. What does Ryan Giggs know about fighting one?
Agree with most of this (apart from Guardiola not being a top player).
I have always felt that top players often don't need to think about the game too much as their own ability carried them through as a player.
Classic cases of Booby Moore, Bobby Charlton, John Barnes, Shearer etc are amongst the many not to have made it in management.
I do admire the likes of Ince and Hasselbank starting at a low level and Giggs ought to do the same rather than expect to move into a Premier League job having no experience of club management other than holding the fort at Old Trafford for a few weeks.
