Essien isn’t the one face habitual to Premier League fanatics who has labored below the Proper to Dream umbrella.

Djimi Traore, a Champions League winner with Liverpool in 2005, coached on the academy’s bottom in Ghana prior to taking fee of AS Monaco’s adolescence crew this month. Creating coaches comes a similar 2nd within the hierarchy of priorities throughout the academy’s multi-club set-up.

“We are happy when coaches leave us,” says Flemming Pedersen, Proper to Dream’s technical director, who in the past served as Brentford’s B crew supervisor.

“It’s the same with our players. Then we hope our best coaches will one day come back home again.

“I used to be away for a month and a part at Brentford. You all the time be informed one thing unused while you meet a unused tradition. That’s remarkable for us.

“We will be stronger if some of our coaches leave for big clubs in other countries. Our philosophy is: when we help each other, we will get a lot of good things back.

“Good fortune for us is the mixing of avid gamers from our academies. If we don’t get that, we will be able to by no means get effects.

“We are measuring the development of our style of play. That will give us better results. We are also measuring our coaches and how we educate our coaches.”

For now, regardless that, Essien has negative plans to elude the Nordsjaelland nest searching for managerial alternatives.

“I’m not thinking about being a head coach. Not yet,” he says.

“But when I get there, I will develop my style of play around the FCN model of what we’re doing here. I have a few more years to go. Let’s see. Maybe I will get there.

“When I used to be enjoying, I by no means concept I’d leap into this move. However coming to the tip of my profession, I used to be considering one life, ‘I’ve finished soccer my complete past and I believe that’s what I do highest. I must get started doing one thing simply to stock my regimen going.’

“I also wanted to get the ideas and strategies of how to be a coach, to learn how to be a coach. That’s how it all came about.

“And in addition as a result of I really like the sport. I’m all the time getting to be in and across the sport.

“I try and do my best to help the young boys coming up so they can do something with their careers.

“This week, on occasion they may be able to be rather tough. Now and again they believe they know the arena, however if truth be told they don’t know the rest.

“To have me around, it’s easy for them to come and ask me a few questions and I give them a few guidelines and some advice.”

Up to he protests, alternatively, it kind of feels Essien is making ready for a shot at control. Simply as he as soon as mastered the artwork of midfield play games, he’s now loading up on concepts for easy methods to break training.

“I’ve just finished one football management course,” he says. “It’s given me some ideas on how football clubs are run, the organisation and everything.

“I’m simply accumulating some wisdom in regards to the sport as a result of soccer is going past the sound.”