West Ham have now announced him as their new manager.
The thing I would ask is if you had a company and there was someone who was extremely talented in one particular part of the business would you give him a job running the whole company. As much as I liked him as a player and as much as I have no opinion of West Ham as a club I find decisions like this astonishing. He has no managerial experience.
I know everyone needs to start somewhere but a Premier league side seems astonishing.
I'm a Celtic fan and we took on John Barnes and a bigger disaster as a manager you have never seen.
Good player doesn't mean good manager. In fact it's almost the opposite. Average players seem to make the best managers
Jock Stein
Alex Ferguson
Arsene Wenger
George Graham
Fabio Cappello
Jose Mourinho (He didn't even play football professionally)
Bobby Robson
Matt Busby
Bob Paisley
Bill Shankley
the list can go on and on
Couple of great players who became good managers are few and far between
Kenny Dalgliesh and Brian Clough spring to mind
The thing I would ask is if you had a company and there was someone who was extremely talented in one particular part of the business would you give him a job running the whole company. As much as I liked him as a player and as much as I have no opinion of West Ham as a club I find decisions like this astonishing. He has no managerial experience.
I know everyone needs to start somewhere but a Premier league side seems astonishing.
I'm a Celtic fan and we took on John Barnes and a bigger disaster as a manager you have never seen.
Good player doesn't mean good manager. In fact it's almost the opposite. Average players seem to make the best managers
Jock Stein
Alex Ferguson
Arsene Wenger
George Graham
Fabio Cappello
Jose Mourinho (He didn't even play football professionally)
Bobby Robson
Matt Busby
Bob Paisley
Bill Shankley
the list can go on and on
Couple of great players who became good managers are few and far between
Kenny Dalgliesh and Brian Clough spring to mind