I hope Roman sacks AVB

get him in a few years when Kenny steps down

I'd like to think that we're destined for a decade of competing with two Manc teams instead of none.

Kenny's not that old and if his tenure is successful then I can see him sticking around for at least 5 years, if not then yes I think Gerrard and Carra are still too young and inexperienced to take on the job, I'd rather see them in some form of coaching capacity first.

In terms of winning the league, competing with the two Mancs is going to be extremely difficult and only if we buy incredibly well in the transfer market can I see us having a chance. It's a million to one shot, but it just might work.

Maybe SC would take over from him.

I think you shouldn't worry about the future; que sera sera.

Just enjoy the moment.

I think it will be steve clark with either carra or gerrard as assistant (more likley carra, for some reason i see stevie as becoming a pundit)

yeah MOTD in 2025...Shearer presenting with Carra and Stevie doing the punditry

MOTD2 - Anchored by Joey Barton with guests Emile Heskey and Titus Bramble...can see it now!

I'm in my 5th year of Youth coaching, with another 5 to go. By the end of it I'll have my FA coaching badges, so I can do it if no-one else wants to? I can only do Sundays and training on a Friday night though.

Hope that helps?

i would gladly have Rushies Moustache in the dugout - bit worried about training being so close to a matchday, i've heard you give your players a right roasting in practice!

It's the only day I can get off work early. Don't really want to use my holidays for European travel either, so someone else will need to do them?

dont be hasty - you cant beat a good trip to Kiev in November.
we'll get patrick berger on the case in europe then...

Good article about an interesting topic. And I would defintely prefer it (and hope the Liverpool board will take this to heart ho hum) if people like Gerrard and Carra would get some experience as a head coach - not assistant - at a smaller club first.

The team I love over here in the Netherlands, Ajax, have tried a lot of ex-players as head coach over the last 12 or so years, and mostly this has not been a success. The idea behind it was that ex-players would know the culture of the club, would understand the system Ajax play (with 2 wingers in a 4-3-3 or 3-4-3) etc.

So great ex players, like Jan Wouters, Danny Blind and Marco van Basten have tried - and failed miserably!

At the moment it looks like we have finally a winner in Frank de Boer, who took us to our 30th title (and first one in 7 years) after taking over from Jol in november after a dreadful start of the season and loosing Suarez in the January transfer window.

The thing is, every beginning coach will make mistakes. Will need to make mistakes to learn from them. And at a club like Ajax in the Netherlands, or Liverpool in the PL, mistakes might cost you winning titles, or qualifying for champions league football etc.

Better to make mistakes and learn from them at a smaller club, where mistakes will not cost that much (unless you are sent down to the second division, as happened to Frank Rijkaard when coaching Sparta, the first time that team went down in the 100 year history of the club).

This is a good point - I agree a player should earn his stripes elsewhere, rather than be assistant manager or team coach and then step up when the manager retires....

I hate to say it but I think Carra will make a poor manager. Much like Souness I think he will pretty much bully players.

I don't think Stevie will ever be a manager. Bit like Hansen who Kenny said never loved the game enough to manage in it.

This really only leaves Biscan but I'm okay with that.

Igor!!!! With Erik Meijer as his assistant.

Do agree about Carra tbh. Would Sami be interested in a future coaching career I wonder.....

He's only been in the job five minutes and already people are thinking about who's next. Extremely silly article.

I see sami as a future manager.
you could see when he played that he knew the tactical side of the game.

Ive done my level 1 badge and my basic first aid. If you need a mannequin resuscating then Im your man.

Ha! The first aid course is hilarious, we had a REALLY strict woman doing ours, we had to stay in character during the whole thing, otherwise she'd freak out and make us start again...

We had to set up a 'situation' where people out of the room would walk in, assess and treat as necessary. For some reason there was old piano with no working innards, so I took the lid off and got inside with just my legs sticking out. She wasn't impressed...

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I think Rudolfo Borrell and Mike Marsh will be contenders.

If we have stream of players from the academy, which is of course the aim, then these two would have managed all of them.

If Gerrard and Carra are contenders with no managerial experience then Borrell and Marsh have to be.

Promote from within should be the aim.

As for Man United, Solksjaer will take over.

He managed their reserve team, and is now manager of Molde in Norway. They are 9 points clear at the top of the table so far in his first season.

After a few more years managerial experience, assuming he is successful, he will be in the perfect position to take over from Fergie.

Villa-Boas of however you spell his name, is too much a Mourinho clone and just wouldn't fit in. My choice? As ever, if he's British, there's only one: David Moyes. JimmyTheRed

>>Villa-Boas of however you spell his name, is too much a Mourinho clone

he's humble and plays attacking football

he's the anti-mourinho

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Sami is already coaching now with Leverkusen. Love to see him come back one day. The other ex-player who said he'd love to come back as manager one day is Didi Hamann, but he said he didn't fancy his chances of getting in ahead of Carra!

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I'm still kind of a big deal round here to be honest but I'll put my name forward when the time comes. First order of the day will be to bring back Igor Biscan as President for Life.