Right. And ideally you'd hope they understood that and knew they would soon be back with the youth team or whatever with thanks for keeping the seat warm, helping out in a tight spot and no hard feelings, rather than entertaining lofty notions about walking into the job full-time.
The upper reaches of the Premier League, if that's where we're going, is to be reserved for the best; careful, committed men. These are not entry level positions for popular ex-players who might fancy it, or might not.
Serious professional players (and many of ours are, whatever anyone may think of them) want a serious professional manager and not a callow trainee. Yesterday's team selection strongly suggested that FL8 may be taking the thing in the wrong way, so to speak
"Plenty of strikers can score goals," he said, gesturing to the famous old stands casting shadows around us.
"But a lot have found it difficult wearing the number 9 shirt for The Arsenal."