With Frank Lampard said to be on interested in a new job, it’s a good time to consider the ever-increasing list of great players who have struggled as managers
Steven Gerrard is having a hard time living up to his employers' expectations as manager of Saudi Arabian side Al-Ettifaq. Photograph: Francois Nel/Getty Images. Al-Ettifaq, the Saudi Pro-League team he manages for a reported salary of €18.2 million a year, have won just three of their opening 10 league matches, and sit 12th in the table, 17 points behind the leaders.
Having suffered further reputational damage Lampard said that he would need to choose his next job “carefully”. Coventry, who sit 17th in the Championship, have had 80 applicants for the vacancy. Lampard and Gerrard both won more than 100 international caps and were part of what was dubbed England’s “Golden Generation”. Ultimately, that group of players was crushed under the weight of hysterical projections. Knocked out at the quarter-final stage of three successive tournaments, they failed to even qualify for Euro 2008, by which time their sobriquet was a source of bitter ridicule.
Of those, Neville had an ill-starred 28-game spell as manager of Valencia, and spent four seasons as assistant manager with England, but there is no suggestion that he will return to the dugout. As a pundit, being wrong enjoys much better indemnity. Rooney is manager of Plymouth Argyle now, in just their second season back in the Championship after a long hiatus. Expectations are modest, and Rooney has done nothing so far to raise their hopes. But if he doesn’t show a spark with Plymouth, how many more chances can Rooney expect?
At Southend he couldn’t save them from relegation to League Two. They had no money either. That was his last job in management, four years ago. In 2021 he told the football writer Henry Winter that he had applied for 16 jobs in 11 months and had been granted just one interview, at Sunderland. Campbell said in the same interview that he believed being black “inhibited his opportunities”.
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