Champions League 25/26

[serghei]

Do you count Ancelotti's career as a player? It's also part of his trajectory as manager. He won 2 CLs with Milan as a player. I'm fairly sure they knew he had the right temperament to be a top managers for them. And they were right.

 

[Birdy]

Do you count Ancelotti's career as a player? It's also part of his trajectory as manager. He won 2 CLs with Milan as a player. I'm fairly sure they knew he had the right temperament to be a top managers for them. And they were right.

What ones does as a player has nothing to do with what he can do as a manager.

It's precisely this privilege and entitled mindset that has to change, and it's already changing...

BTW, you lump all 'greats' without even realizing who is who.
Klopp Simeone Mourinho all of them worked up through the ranks to rise to tier 1 clubs. Klopp started at Mainz, Mou at Braga, Simeone at San Lorenzo and Racing. They had to eat shit first and work their ass off to earn the chance to coach first a tier 2 club, and after tremendous showings there a tier 1 club.
(The next Klopp or Mourinho will be someone like Frank who you are refusing to acknowledge )

Nothing to do with privileged folk like Ancelotti, Zidane, and Xavi, who had showed absolute shit before being handed a job they never deserved.

 

[serghei]

Of course it does. Clubs value their legends all the time and give them chances as manager. It's not gratuitous, it's because of what those legends achieved with their clubs. We did it with both Pep, Lucho, Milan did it with Ancelotti, Madrid with Zidane and now with Alonso. Arsenal with Arteta, Atletico with Simeone, and so on.

Pep, Lucho, Ancelotti. Last 4 CL winners were also players of a high profile level. You think that's a coincidence? Experience you gain as player serves you as a manager without a doubt, managing a collective and asserting yourself as leader, being able to learn from previous managers while working for them as players like Ancelotti with Sacchi for example, and so on. Everything you can learn from counts, and as a high profile player you learn a lot.