Best Manager and Player 12:41 - Jan 4 with 3163 views | Dr_Parnassus | The thread on Russ being a lower league player got me thinking. Who is the best player to ever make a top manager? So that’s greatest football and managerial career combined. I can’t think of too many who have excelled as truly world class in both, not in the modern era anyway. Pep I guess, but after him it’s very thin on the ground in terms of managers who have dominated the managerial sector AND playing. | |
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Best Manager and Player on 12:43 - Jan 4 with 3151 views | NotLoyal | I would definitely say Alex Ferguson. Clough ? Depends on the caveat for world class. [Post edited 4 Jan 2023 12:44]
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Best Manager and Player on 12:43 - Jan 4 with 3149 views | lifelong | I would suggest John Toshack as being a good candidate. | | |  |
Best Manager and Player on 12:46 - Jan 4 with 3134 views | Dr_Parnassus | Hmmm only seems to have had 4 international caps for Scotland and didn’t play outside the Scottish leagues. | |
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Best Manager and Player on 12:57 - Jan 4 with 3116 views | theloneranger | Zidane, Toshack. | |
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Best Manager and Player on 13:06 - Jan 4 with 3091 views | grabsplatter | Ancelotti, Guardiola should get a mention but I'd go with Cruyff [Post edited 4 Jan 2023 13:13]
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Best Manager and Player on 13:13 - Jan 4 with 3071 views | Cleddau | Cruyff, Beckenbauer, Zidane and Deschamps all have impressive CVs as player and manager. | | |  |
Best Manager and Player on 13:18 - Jan 4 with 3065 views | GixerJack | Roberto Mancini or Antonio Conte. For a good few years now what we’ve been seeing is that managers are being brought in from Europe so many are less aware of their playing careers. Dalgliesh is probably worth a mention albeit from a few years back | | |  |
Best Manager and Player on 13:19 - Jan 4 with 3062 views | lifelong | Kenny Dalglish. | | |  |
Best Manager and Player on 13:22 - Jan 4 with 3051 views | GixerJack | That’s the fella… I never could understand his accent 😂😂 | | |  |
Best Manager and Player on 13:22 - Jan 4 with 3050 views | theloneranger | Vicente del Bosque and Jupp Heynckes. | |
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Best Manager and Player on 13:30 - Jan 4 with 3030 views | Joesus_Of_Narbereth | Both respected and successful players as was Pep but I don’t think anyone would count them amongst the elite like Cruyff or Zidane. | |
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Best Manager and Player on 13:49 - Jan 4 with 3005 views | KeithHaynes | Kevin Cullis could have been so much more than he was. | |
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Best Manager and Player on 14:08 - Jan 4 with 2981 views | Robbie | Swans point of view , Toshack and Michu , and I can go back to Tony Millington days . Latterly Messi and Sir Alex must be up there at the top . | | |  |
Best Manager and Player on 14:23 - Jan 4 with 2967 views | onehunglow | Top man is Kenny. Spoken to him several times. You do get his accent after a while when one’s ears have attuned | |
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Best Manager and Player on 16:44 - Jan 4 with 2914 views | STID2017 | Got to give a shout to Jack Charlton ? World Cup medal winner, honours with Leeds plus took the Republic of Ireland to the WC Finals knockout stages? | |
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Best Manager and Player on 17:07 - Jan 4 with 2899 views | Kilkennyjack | Great shout big Jack. Cruyff you might think though ? | |
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Best Manager and Player on 17:09 - Jan 4 with 2897 views | STID2017 | Probably the greatest yes | |
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Best Manager and Player on 17:29 - Jan 4 with 2879 views | JACKMANANDBOY | Bobby Robson, whilst only 20 England caps success at PSV, Lisbon, Barcelona, Porto, Ipswich, Newcastle and a decent run with England | |
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Best Manager and Player on 18:01 - Jan 4 with 2867 views | onehunglow | All a bit of fun but this is like GOAT boxers ,which is dumb but fun. | |
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Best Manager and Player on 18:33 - Jan 4 with 2848 views | 1462jack | Both sugar Ray’s | | |  |
Best Manager and Player on 19:08 - Jan 4 with 2835 views | STID2017 | Best GOAT is Billy - by a mile. Or at least by a bridge | |
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Best Manager and Player on 21:22 - Jan 4 with 2790 views | Kilkennyjack | A top man. Decent bloke. Produced a stand out England team in 1990. | |
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