General Football Nonsense

How many world class players have also made it as great* managers?

I put the asterisk in there because there is always a debate about King Kenny, whether he was a great manager or simply inherited a great side and then built another one at Blackburn with endless funds.

I can think of:
Johan Cruyff (European Cup win with Barcelona)
Kenny Dalglish
Franz Beckenbauer
Zidane
Mario Zagallo
Diego Simeone
Pep Guardiola/Antonio Conte/Carlo Ancelotti/Didier Deschamps (were they truly great players in the class of the above? Debatable, although all won a lot of caps)

I’ll throw Mancini and Vialli in there, being a little bit generous.

I’ll also throw in Mark Hateley as a player manager.

Actually no he was fucking shit.

I reckon Kenny did more than enough with that Liverpool team to call it his own. Three titles in six years, signed Barnes, Beardsley, Aldo, Houghton, McMahon etc. He did plenty of his own work.

Anyone at Real and Barca can fuck off, it’s difficult to lose with that much cash in such a pony league. they’re not proving anything.

So, basically, Kenny and Beckenbauer. No idea how good a player Zagallo or Simeone really were. I know they were internationals, but so was Carlton Palmer.

bosstrabs Zidane was a good fit for Real but I am not convinced he is a great manager. He had peak CR and world class players in every position.

Brentford playing right through Arsenal. Outstanding at home

Good game so far.

Arsenal will win 2-1.

As always you heard it here first.

Smallman1 my mate went for 1-2 about 2pm today, so unfortunately you weren’t the first to predict that score. Soz

alistair

RichM my mate went for 1-2 about 2pm today, so unfortunately you weren’t the first to predict that score. Soz

I actually went for it at 11am Rich so I was.

Soz.

alistair It’s a game of two half’s young Alistair.

Nwaneri looks like a hell of a player, shades of Messi.

Amps Can see it now, hard life without Big Virg next to him, so they stick him in midfield, but it doesn’t work out, because, he’s not a midfielder, and then he realises their league is a load of old shite and the milf supplied lemo is Hugo grade crap. One way ticket to the John Lennon Chicken Shed please!

@Old-Dutch Any odds on Trent going in the summer and then being resigned by us for the 26/27 season?

Haha you’d probably need to go to a bookies shop for that one

Old-Dutch If the odds were decent it’s got to be worth a tenner. We must be looking at some buy back clause of some sort.

Amps why don’t you think it will work for him there? I think his long ball passes will enable him to do well there, and his lack of defending ability will be less of an issue. And he will probably love playing with some of those players.

RichM Bellingham took to it like a duck to water. Trent will too. He’s a proper baller.

Trent is absolutely made for Real Madrid, they’ll love him.