- Jul 24, 2005
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You can be a club legend lets say at Fulham or Saints ETC middle tier clubs and go on to fail or succeed it all depends on your ability.
The legends like Zidane or Pep have taken over what was at the time probably the two best and successful clubs in the world who had loads of money to splash on the top talent.
For myself until one of these so called mega star managers do something like Clough did at forest then to me they are taking over at clubs where success is almost nailed on.
The real top managers to me are the ones that succeed at lesser clubs with little if any transfer funds the likes of Warnock and fat sam.
It would be hilarious to see Zidane or Pep at Cardiff or Brighton ; no money no superstar players and fighting relegation they would not have the guts to go near such a quest.
Clough
Nicolson
Revie
Mercer
Shankly
Paisley
Wenger
Ferguson
These are managers that really built something out of very little with lasting success.
Pep/Zidane/Mourino/Allegri/Ancelloti/Van haal/these are men that jump from one uber rich club to another uber rich club where the millions of pounds available to spend give an almost guaranteed chance of trophies.
That's fair enough, but in this particular context we're talking about Lampard taking over at Chelsea so the comparisons to Pep and Zidane are pretty reasonable.