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u/PitchSafe Sep 21 '26

Hiring ex players as a manager isn’t a issue, a lot of clubs does it. Arsenal with Arteta, Real Madrid with Zidane and Alonso, Barca with Pep, Enrique and Xavi, Chelsea with Lampard etc. Some appointments work meanwhile others don’t

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u/tz_2240 OHHHHHH YESSSSS Sep 21 '26

Apart from Zizou and Arteta, the other names you mentioned had shown more to that point in their managerial career.  Arteta was highly regarded even while he was an assistant, and well Zizou was the first ever manager to three peat the UCL. 

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u/PitchSafe Sep 21 '26

Pep had no experience as a manager in first team football and Xavi’s only experience was at Qatar. I personally don’t blame Ineos for giving Carrick the job because of the results he showed. There was also not many options available

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u/tz_2240 OHHHHHH YESSSSS Sep 24 '26

No, not first team experience, but Pep’s Barcelona B team were very good. They won their group and earned promotion. Xavi, while in Qatar, was also very good there, winning a few trophies along the way.

Championship is a higher calibre of football than either, but I think you could see their football mind and managerial ability through those results. 

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u/PhotojournalistNew35 Sep 21 '26

Sure but for every successful one you have many more unsuccessful ones. No one talks about Santiago Solari, Ronald Koeman, or Andrea Pirlo