But we're not asking him to play.. . We've signed him as a coach.
He probably wouldn't get into our first team squad today...
But since when did the best players make the best managers...?
Ferguson, Wenger, Mourihno... bang average players, yet you can't doubt their credentials as Managers/Coaches!
I reckon Parker has a decent future as a coach... whether it's with us or not remains to be seen... but he's definitely got what it takes to get the best out of players.
Oh come on, I'll put that down to it being Saturday night and you've hopefully been drinking but Mourinho in a list of great managers/coaches whose credentials you can't question? Please let's not perpetuate that bullshit construction.
Mourinho and Guardiola are two of the greatest frauds to ever have managed football clubs, Keyser Soze wearing the Emperor's new clothes.
I challenge you to name one player who Mourinho has coached/managed to become a better player - you've only got to look at what he's done to Shaw and Rashford's careers, not to mention a host of other promising youngsters like Fosu-Mensah who's potential has been stifled by a reliance on overpriced overhyped short-termism.
Honestly Mourinho convincing the world that he's a half-capable manager is proper Derren Brown/Penn and Teller level shit, he won the league with Porto, OK that's like suggesting Brendan Rogers is the second coming because of what he's achieved in the northern Mickey Mouse league, then he's been at Chelsea, Real and Man United where he's spent 200/300 million on transfers and God knows what in wages and managed to scrape together a few trophies.
Can you really imagine him keeping Sunderland in the premiership for however many seasons they managed, or winning the league with the players Leicester had, or God forbid even at our place a few years ago? Rose and Walker would have been straight out the door to be replaced by 34 year old 'big names' for 30 million a pop; Kane, Winks, Dier and Alli would be nowhere near the first team if they were even at the club, and we'd have a crippling defecit hanging over us like the executioners blade.
Apologies for the Saturday night rant but it's the casual dropping of his name into lists of 'great managers/coaches' that perpetuates the myth that he's somehow anywhere near half capable...