Without having any core facts to back this up I’d suggest the new trend is top tier clubs are now hiring managers relatively close to after they retired as opposed to gaining 5/10 years of experience in the industry.
How many managers in the circuit nowadays have never played? It's the way of the development of the game; most players these days appreciate the longevity of their playing career is short in comparison to the length of their lives and so do their badges etc. for life after playing. And then it's probably a fair assumption that a lot of top players will be decent managers, as you don't get to that level of the game without understanding football.
For Ole and Zidane it happened almost 10 years after their retirements. Zidane was a consultant, then sporting director, the assistant coach and then youth coach before getting the job. Bacelona have done that type of things for a while and Arsenal aren't a top tier club.
I could give you that, but management tenures are shorter now too, so the opening comes up quicker. Continental wise, it's simply always been fairly common place. And has been there in Britain too to a lesser degree, it's a far bigger revolving door now.
New is to hire ex players without a lot of experience as managers. Lampard, Arteta, Guardiola, Xavi, Pirlo fit the bill. Ole and the managers you stated had all years and years of experience until better clubs picked them up. One group has 0-5 years experience, mostly a couple of years, and the other by far more than that. There is a trend in general, and that trend is that former (top) players get top jobs quicker, even without necessarily being proven. That can be either good or bad, not judging it.
Ancelotti didn't play for Juventus but he did manage Parma and Milan. Monaco hired Ettori, Jean Petit, Deschamps, Tigana, Henry and Marco Simone.
In 2011, Dalglish was managing Liverpool, Pep was at Barcelona, Conte at Juventus, Kombouaré at PSG, Remi Garde at Lyon, Marco Simone at Monaco, Deschamps at Marseille, De Boer at Ajax, Ranieri at Roma and I'm sure that the list is way longer.
Yeah, no idea why I thought he played for Juventus. Also deschamps and Juventus too.
Yeah that might be true, didn't see the experience when they were hired.
Such a cheap and unnecessary shot about Lampard.
It works a lot of the time.
I think that things in life you must deserve. It is the same if you as a owner of big company hire your son, who just finished college and have zero experience in business, as CEO.
I was against it at the time, but looking back on it now, it couldn't really have gone much worse had we gotten Giggsy, could it?
Bless your heart. That would be nice in a fair world.
It just does not work anymore at big clubs. The players will never give a non-player the same respect. It's firmly in the past now.
It has never really been a thing though, non-players have rarely managed big clubs.
Just once. Sacchi. Still a semi-pro. Don't know how he managed to convinced the stars he had in his team. I would not listen to a guy who never played at my level if I were them.
Some people get a leg up others don't but most of the time they have to actually be talented to survive long term.
To be fair, Mourinho is our most successful manager post Fergie...
I mean, relative to the other guys, sure, but I don't count a Europa league, league cup and a second place finish where we were closer to fourth than first to be worth the soul destroying football, the fracturing of our fanbase, moaning about money spent despite spending more than almost every other club around, and general dark cloud that hung over the club for his entire tenure here. Not worth it for me at all.
It doesn't always work out as good like that. Solari and Julen Lopetegui are former Madrid players too. Valverde was former Barcelona player. Abidal who is at the center of all the smoke regarding Barcelona issue, also a former player. AC Milan went also through a bunch of former players in past few seasons...
The recent trend was started by us wasnt it?
Real and Zidane?
