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I've played a number of very successful years with my Chelsea club and now a handful of my players are reaching retirement age. I'm looking to see how many of them I can get to become staff members once they retire.
First of all, here's how I operate: once a player reaches age 30 (when they start listing their long-term plans), on the first of every month, I suggest to the player that they would make a good manager/coach/scout. Most of the time, this seems to "move them up a ladder rung", as it were, on the long-term planning (i.e. going from "considering" to "seriously thinking" to "definitely staying").
So here's where they stand now:
[player (age) - long-term plans]
Cudicini (age 38) - definitely staying in the game (manager)
Ballack (35) - definitely staying in the game (coach - looking into management)
Drogba (34) - definitely staying (manager)
Lampard (31) - definitely staying (coach - looking into management)
Terry (30) - definitely staying (coach - looking into management)
A. Cole (30) - seriously thinking about management
J. Cole (30) - considering taking up coaching
S. Wright-Phillips - would prefer a coaching role
Cudicini should be ending his playing career anytime now (though he's still wanted by some lower league Italian team) and Ballack is pretty much useless as a Premiership player (slow as hell and won't stop whining about not being played - at least Cudicini doesn't whine). Drogba is on a serious decline and Lampard is just starting to go.
Results will be forthcoming. Does anybody have any predictions? (Will they follow through with their plans? Will they have decent stats as coaches/managers?)
I can't imagine for a minute that Cashley would make a decent coach... No one would pay him enough.
You would think Terry would probably be the pick of the bunch out of that lot, at least in terms of motivation. I've got a sneaky feeling Lampard might be good too.
Cool. I would like to see the chances of them converting to staff after retirement. Does it affect their possible roles when you try to convince them to be a manager/coach/scout?
Would like to see Lampard and Terry become coaching staff. Keep us posted on the results.
Cudicini has now retired at age 38 at the end of the 2012 season. Despite saying that he was definitely staying in the game, he is not available as a potential staff member. I saved right before his retirement date and asked him to reconsider his retirement, but that didn't result any differently.
In the news release for his retirement, it says under his picture that he's a Chairman (same thing happened when Makelele retired) -- as far as I can tell, he's not with any club though. You can't exactly do a database search of chairmen or directors. Any ideas / theories / similar lamentations that players like to lie about their future plans?
Bought back Ronald de Boer and Richard Witschge in my Ajax game with a view to converting them to coaching staff. It worked for both. Currently trying my bit with Edgar Davids.
If you want to sign players as staff members you should indicate this too them when they get nearer their retirement dates.
did that with Beckham in 06 and i was notified when he had acheived all is badges. Too bad he was terrible
Chelsea retirement experiment 
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