Mind you,
@ivanwi11iams, if Freddie gets some of his coaching badges (and I don't know the process of how sets about achieving that) between now and February, there is little to stop Arsenal appointing him as interim manager until the end of the season, as I suspect that they wish to take the time to think long and carefully about this appointment - i.e. put the same sort of thought into this, that they had done before they appointed Mr Wenger to the position in the mid 1990s.
Firstly, because - traditionally - this is the Arsenal way - normally, they are a stable and serious club, not given to the abrupt firing of managers, and not remotely interested in anything that might serve to engender instability, and the last thing anyone wants is a sorry repetition of what Manchester United have been enduring in the wake of the departure of the legendary Sir Alex - and secondly, if you recall, they were prepared to wait quite some time for Wenger - they had an acting manager in place while they waited for Wenger to see out and serve out, his contract in Japan.
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Agreed.
But it ensured that people who stumbled into management once their playing days had ended - and some were not remotely fit for such an appointment, indeed, I have long been struck by the number of excellent players who made poor managers - most good managers had been quite mediocre players, there were exceptions (Cruyff, Dalgliesh) but for most, the gulf between playing and managing was far greater than they had ever envisaged when they fancied themselves as dressing room experts - acquired some sort of recognised professional qualification, and some sort of objective notion of training.
Having said that, I'm not so sure that many of the self-indulgent narcissists currently on six figures a week would ever be likely to end up in management.