Which current United player could have a career as a manager?

I think only Evans and eriksen and that's a maybe. I cannot say any of them really have shown something to suggest they can manage.
 
Johnny Evans is the only one . Rest not a chance. Maybe Casemiro but world class players rarely make top managers
 
None of them, at least not a successful career. Someone actually suggested Rashford, and that's just taking the piss.

Our most "intelligent" players who seem to understand the game are players like Mount and perhaps Evans and Dalot. Yet I don't think either of them will be successful managers.

Many are suggesting Bruno. He is not a tactician by any measure. He plays on instinct, and often those instincts are misguided and wrong.
 
It’s impossible to predict who will make a great manager. We have seen in recent years players who everyone thought would be good managers , Roy Keane, Steve Gerrard. The most successful Managers mostly were not top players, even to the extent of not playing at a very high level at all. Bertie Mee, Arsene Wenger, Jose Mauriniho to name but a few who never played, or played at minor levels had been successful managers. I always believe that most successful managers, whether it be sport or everyday work life have to have Man Mangement skills supported by good coaches, who, generally don’t make good managers when they step up.
 
JackRowley said:
It’s impossible to predict who will make a great manager. We have seen in recent years players who everyone thought would be good managers , Roy Keane, Steve Gerrard. The most successful Managers mostly were not top players, even to the extent of not playing at a very high level at all. Bertie Mee, Arsene Wenger, Jose Mauriniho to name but a few who never played, or played at minor levels had been successful managers. I always believe that most successful managers, whether it be sport or everyday work life have to have Man Mangement skills supported by good coaches, who, generally don’t make good managers when they step up.
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Agree with this.

I think part of the issue is that the top players get put into bigger jobs to early. It doesn't give them time to cut their teeth and make mistakes. Not saying that Lampard is a great manager, but he did a good job at Derby and then gets the Chelsea job at a time when the club were in a mess. Then goes back at caretaker for 10 games or so, at the end of an already terrible season for them. Must be tempting to grab the big job, but maybe it is about waiting for the right job at the right time.

Plus, there is a lot of luck involved. You could be a good manager, but the circumstances at the club you manage are not great at the time.

I dont think there are any "bad" managers in the Premier League currently, but inevitably, someone will get sacked because an owner needs to see a change in fortunes.
 
JackRowley said:
It’s impossible to predict who will make a great manager. We have seen in recent years players who everyone thought would be good managers , Roy Keane, Steve Gerrard. The most successful Managers mostly were not top players, even to the extent of not playing at a very high level at all. Bertie Mee, Arsene Wenger, Jose Mauriniho to name but a few who never played, or played at minor levels had been successful managers. I always believe that most successful managers, whether it be sport or everyday work life have to have Man Mangement skills supported by good coaches, who, generally don’t make good managers when they step up.
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Mauriniho, y'know.

Good post, though. I think you're right.
 
Eriksen and Evans strike me as players who give off that coaching demeanour. You can’t really tell until you see the players at the prime age of late 20s and early 30s.

Bruno comes across as well spoken but I’m not sure he’s got the temperament to be a manager/head coach.
 
Red the Bear said:
You make a great point in regards to the available positional pool for managers although the discrepancy must have somewhat diminished in recent years as most teams play in the 433.

In a somewhat related note can't help but notice how your striker manager list skews much older, it would be interesting to know how the positions have fluctuated throughout the years if at all.
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Until recently most clubs were playing a variant of 4-2-3-1, which we are seeing the effects of now (in terms of strikers managerial pool).

With 4-3-3 being more popular in recent years, as you say, we should see more managers in future who used to be strikers/forwards.

The list of managers are just the top of my head, I excluded managers such as Ole and Ruud because there is no collective agreement on how "good" of a manager they are. Klopp, Pipo, Montella, Mancini are rather young (for a manager) no?

Again, the main point I was trying to make is that in your original post there is some insinuation that defenders and midfielders usually demand players who are more tactically savvy and therefore more likely to become managers, while I'm saying that being a striker doesn't necessary mean they are any less tactically savvy (most of the greatest managers are ex-strikers) and it's simply just that statistically you get less strikers to managers because there are less strikers to begin with.
 
Hardly any. We’ve made them so incredibly wealthy that they don’t need to take the stress. At a pinch Evan’s, and maybe Maguire
 
Maguire and Evans could have solid managerial careers in the bottom half of the Premier League or top of the Championship.

Eriksen, I feel, is destined for a Technical Director style role.
 
Not one single player in our squad strike me as having the intelligence, temperament, desire, work ethic or know how to progress into management.
 
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