Dubai: Ryan Giggs risks never being seen or heard of again if he picks the wrong managerial job, according to former Liverpool midfielder Jan Molby.

Manchester United legend Giggs, 42, was in talks to replace sacked Francesco Guidolin at Swansea City recently but turned down the Premier League strugglers prompting them to opt for American Bob Bradley instead.

After his successful Liverpool career, where he won three league titles and three FA Cups, Molby, 53, was briefly player-manager of Swansea in the mid-nineties when they were in the fourth tier, but his managerial career never picked up despite later stints at Kidderminster and Hull.

“You take a job as a manager hoping in some way that your managerial career can match your playing career,” said the Dane at ‘An audience with Jan Molby and Peter Reid’ at McGettigan’s in Jumeirah Lake Towers on Saturday.

“That’s the big ambition isn’t it? To take a job and move up the ladder where you will hopefully end up at a big club.

“If you start in the lower leagues you have no chance though, over the last 25 years or so they [managers] just don’t come through anymore.

“That’s why I’m so interested in Ryan Giggs because obviously he’s desperate for a job and I think he’s got to be careful because if he dives into a mediocre Championship club you will never see or hear from him again.

“You have to hold your nerve and wait for an opportunity because unless you start in the Premier League it’s very rare you’ll make your way in.

“That was my mistake, I should have gone to play at [then Premier League] Coventry instead of dropping down to Swansea as a player-manager.

“But Ron Atkinson’s assistant at Coventry at the time was Gordon Strachan and I knew if Big Ron left, Gordon would run me to death, I could see he couldn’t wait to get his claws into me. So, I became a player-manager at Swansea.

“It’s a long time since I walked out of my last managerial job in 2004 and it’s a long way out of my system believe me.”

Molby took over at Swansea in February 1996 and led the side to the division three play-off final, which they lost 1-0 to Northampton. A bad start to the following season saw him sacked in October 1997.

Giggs’ excuse for turning down Swansea recently following an “underwhelming interview” was that “their ambitions did not really match mine.”

Swansea are currently 17th in the Premier League on four points from the first seven games of the season.