Not every professional football player wants to get into coaching when they retire from the game.
Some of them go into punditry, some go into a directors role, some leave the game completely. For others, coaching is just not for them.
Being a top quality player does not always mean that you will be a top quality coach, and in fact we have seen many examples of this fact.
But for former Chelsea midfielder Cesc Fabregas, he looks like he could prove to be a top coach as well as a top player.
Fabregas is currently the assistant manager at Como in Italy, but he did also have a stint there are caretaker manager. He has now been tipped to become a ‘top category’ head coach by the current manager of Como, Osian Roberts.
Roberts has worked with and mentored a few bright young coaches, Mikel Arteta, Patrick Vieira, Thierry Henry, and Pep Lijnders, but he thinks Fabregas will be even better!
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