Going back the years a great many managers who had success as a manager had been pretty good players. Joe Mercer, Don Revie, Matt Busby, Bob Paisley, Joe ***an, Stan Cullis. Though the original great managerial in this country , and a great innovator, Herbert Chapman never had any great success as a player. Seems to have altered in recent years, at least as far as English managers go. Not that Mourinho was any great shakes as a player.
Zagallo, Beckenbauer. Puskas did ok at management. Di Stefano not a great manager. Del Bosque was a good player. Bobby Robson. Alf Ramsey.
Jose Mourinho on Ryan Giggs, who has left the club: "I never run away from my responsibilities. The reality is it is not my responsibility Ryan is not in the club. The job Ryan wanted is the job the club decided to give me. "It's not my fault. Ryan wanted to be manger and the club, for reasons they can tell you, they decided the job was for me. He made a decision where you need to be brave. If one day he wants to be back to the cub while I am here I would never stop him from coming back."
