The best managers and coaches have often not been very distinguished players. Successful players do nit necessarily make good managers. It's a different skill set. If it's the path they want to go down, they might be well advised to start coaching at Academy level and then take an assistant manager role. Wayne Rooney arguably went into top level management too quickly. I also argued in an earlier post that he was not a particularly good fit with Plymouth Argyle. They need a coach who knows how to make the best of limited resources. The sad scenes that accompanied Rooney’s final game at Oxford felt a long way from the surge of optimism that greeted his arrival in Devon on a three-year contract in May. While some fans had misgivings over whether Rooney was sufficiently experienced to steer a squad that had finished 21st in the Championship the previous season into safer waters, the club seemed well set up. Rooney already had a relationship with Argy...