AI predicts the jobs all 24 EFL Championship club bosses would be working if they weren’t managers | OneFootball

Championship bosses are some of the least secure employees in football – here's where AI thinks they could be if they embarked on a new career

Managers regularly bounce from job to job within the football world, but rarely do they take on different job roles in other industries.

But it has happened before, with ex-Swansea City boss Luke Williams nobly popping up as a customer care assistant at Bristol Airport earlier this year.

Could any current managers have a different career path in the offing? We've ran all 24 Championship bosses through AI to see what they might be most suitable for.

Here are the results...

Chris Davies (Birmingham City) – University Lecturer

Birmingham City boss Chris Davies had his playing career cut short and never made it beyond youth football, later going to study Sport and Exercise Science at Loughborough University.

It is that link to higher education that led the AI to predict that Davies would have been a university lecturer or researcher had he not found success in football.

The software even predicted that he might have managed a students team on the side for a bit of fun.

Valerien Ismael (Blackburn Rovers) – Corporate Coach

AI predicts that Valerien Ismael would be some sort of leadership coach, based on his career as a non-nonsense centre-back and then transferring into management.

It reckons, based on his ability to handle high-pressure positions and his experience in football, that he’d either be coaching corporate professionals or sports tech executives.

Gerhard Struber (Bristol City) – Insurance Consultant

Gerhard Struber is unique in that he has had a job outside of football, which understandably gives an insight into what he’d be doing if he weren’t involved in football.

After finishing a relatively low-key playing career, Struber pursued a career in insurance, before being brought back to the game by Ralf Rangnick, Red Bull Salzburg’s sporting director at the time.

AI therefore predicts that he’d be back in insurance, possibly heading up a team in that industry or working as a consultant.

Nathan Jones (Charlton Athletic) – Translator

Nathan Jones had a storied playing career, starting in Wales and ending at Yeovil Town, with stints in Spain with Badajoz and Numancia in between.

Jones has revealed in the past that he is fluent in Spanish from that time, and so AI believes he’d be working as a translator or a cultural liaison officer for a football club.

Frank Lampard (Coventry City) – Children's Author

Given Frank Lampard is a household name from his time with Chelsea and England, the obvious answer would be for the former midfielder to go into some kind of punditry work.

That’s not the path AI has picked for him, with the software predicting that, based on his previous ambassadorial post with the National Literacy Trust, and with a range of kids’ books already produced, that he would be a children’s author were it not for his management career.

John Eustace (Derby County) – Academy Director

It seems that John Eustace was always set for a career in football, as if he were not a football manager, it’s predicted he’d be an academy manager.

With hundreds of games under his belt as a player and now as a manager, he’s believed to have the knowledge of the game and the different pathways to guide young prospective players.