Yet he is after a coaching badge, studying in Wales and throwing his managerial hat in the ring for FC Halifax Town.
When asked at the weekend whether he fancied cutting his immaculate teeth at the non-league outfit, the tricky former winger replied: “Why not? I mean it’s a learning process anyway.”
A sign of the Frenchman’s continuing love affair with English football and his hunger to get in the dug-out.
Ex-Barca "world star" Edgar Davids has popped up at Barnet FC for a spot of lower league coaching ... and that probably inspired Ginola.
Ginola: “I passed my CNB licence in Wales, I need to spend some time at Spurs doing my hours for the A licence this year.
"It will take some time and hopefully next year I will be able to be involved with a club and wind up being a manager in the next year or two.
“There’s not so many former players who have been successful as managers, there’s just a few.
"It doesn’t mean a thing, you just have to learn, you just have to understand, it’s a different position, a different attitude, you’ve got different issues.
“As a player you think about yourself, as a manager you think about others."
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