Current top managers, who where the best players?

[dirty_sanchez]

Bruce was a good player.

[JaminKibbler]

Gus Poyet. Can't believe he's not been mentioned yet!

[Code]

Most managers these days have been good footballers, so what exactly is the thread starter looking for here?

 

Guardiola is the one to stand out right now, immense as a player and superb as a manager.

[ScouseJim]

Even though he's out of work, I'd add Zola. But I'd remove Bruce - a prick as a player who's even worse as a manager.

 

Can anyone think of any ex-Manc whose done well and shown some class?

 

Coppell wasn't too bad! Spoke well about Liverpool few times I saw him interviewed.

[WrongIslander]

Rinus Michels was the architect of the dutch "total football" and no doubt was a huge influence on Cruyff.

 

If we're talking great players who were ex managers, Franz Beckenbauer was pretty special too.

 

Read a few interesting books on that subject that suggest that he and Cruyff perfected it but didn't infact invent it and even weirder that some of the credit for it goes to some bloke called Jack (surname escapes me) who was Ajax's only English manager.

 

Can't believe no one has said Zico.

[WrongIslander]

Even though he's out of work, I'd add Zola. But I'd remove Bruce - a prick as a player who's even worse as a manager.

 

Can anyone think of any ex-Manc whose done well and shown some class?

 

Busby but then he had us to show him the way.

 

Ironic they are called the red devils because that's what that story reminds me of. He left heaven to find his own way but adapted what he was taught for evil and set up his own personal hell. Still well thought of by many who played alongside him though apparently.

[IamTheWalrus]

Even though he's out of work, I'd add Zola. But I'd remove Bruce - a prick as a player who's even worse as a manager.

 

Can anyone think of any ex-Manc whose done well and shown some class?

 

Hughes ?

[DJLJ]

Ruud Gullitt has taken the job as manager for Chechnyan club Terek Grozny. That seems a strange place to go.

 

FC Terek Grozny - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

[Lee909]

Daniel Passarella,ex manager now president of River Plate

Ruud Krol manager of orlando pirates in south africa

Siniša Mihajlović-manages Fiorentina

Dragan Stojković manages Nagoya Grampus in japan

Robert Prosinečki manager Red Star

[Mike D]

Most managers these days have been good footballers, so what exactly is the thread starter looking for here?.

 

nothing really, just for a laugh

 

basically so we can have a list of prem managers with Dalglish at the top, Funguson at the bottom and the rest in the middle :smile:

 

wouldnt have wanted to do it a few weeks back ;)

[Mojo]

Is the Kaiser still managing? I think the holy trinity in footballing history are our King, Cruyff, and Beckenbauer, for those who have been hugely successful as both player and manager.

[Lee909]

He is involved with the Bayern board,he is the president i think

[grandrake]

Maybe not top managers or managers of top clubs/countries, but certainly good/great players:

 

- Thomas Nkono, Cameroon

- Eric Gerets, Morocco

- Alain Giresse, Mali

- Roberto Donadoni, Cagliari

- Dan Petrescu, Kuban Krasnodar

- Jan Ceulemans, Westerlo

- Andrei Kanchelskis, FC Ufa