NoPace
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I know the money wouldn't be great and that there aren't often specialist position coaches like in say American football, but I was listening to Shearer commentate and then Rooney at halftime and it's just so obviously clear that if either was going to be a decent manager, it would probably come after a good few years of coaching strikers (say they could work with the first-team strikers and also the academy ones at a club) and learning the job and being an assistant to a better manager and then maybe eventually take on a #2 role and then manage if they do well there.
I know in those specific cases (or really for star players) the money and lack of prestige might not appeal, but in general for players, the American football system where a player tends to be the coach in college or the pros for their position group for a few years and if they do well they get poached by a bigger team for the same role and then if they do well eventually gets to be in charge of an offence or defence (and it does seem like occassionally managers do effectively have a coach they charge with organizing the defence for instance).
I guess we are doing this with Benni McCarthy, but it really should be the model for guys who want to manage but aren't geniuses.
I know in those specific cases (or really for star players) the money and lack of prestige might not appeal, but in general for players, the American football system where a player tends to be the coach in college or the pros for their position group for a few years and if they do well they get poached by a bigger team for the same role and then if they do well eventually gets to be in charge of an offence or defence (and it does seem like occassionally managers do effectively have a coach they charge with organizing the defence for instance).
I guess we are doing this with Benni McCarthy, but it really should be the model for guys who want to manage but aren't geniuses.