article_snippet: Many top players from the previous generation were chewed up and spat out having been through the usual routine: use your name to get a job, discover your name’s damn hard and totally different to being a player and either get disillusioned or sacked or both.
article_snippet: no longer a star footballer but a failed manager.
article_snippet: In the spirit of the football culture in this country, many good players are impatient, convinced many good players should bypass the qualification process.
article_snippet: many good players would rather learn on the job but the job is too insecure on which to learn.
article_snippet: Why would millionaire footballers trade footballers comfortable lives to start at the bottom of a profession struggling for identity?
article_snippet: The obsession with rushing big-name players into high-profile jobs was more probably part of the problem.