17 Jan 2022 09:18:07
Remember reading a book about Harry Catterick, and Alan Ball was talking about the players during training. He said that Catterick would very rarely take training, but that the players knew that if the blinds in his office moved you went flat out, or you were in trouble.
That wouldn't happen theses days. Players today have all the power, and agents move them around like pawns to maximise their profits.
So managers these days can't be dictators, players simply down tools or move on, or wait for the manager to lose his job. Either way they keep making money.
So good managers now have to be good negotiators, have to be good at encouraging their players, and have to be able to work with them, and build up mutual respect.
So before we appoint another manager can we make sure he ticks all these boxes, because regardless if we like it or not this is football today.
17 Jan 2022 09:31:06
A good Manager is able to delegate you have to trust people around you and let go.
17 Jan 2022 10:17:58
Same for good owners too.
17 Jan 2022 12:00:49
Not sure I agree with you Bob. I don't think for one minute Pep. Klopp or Tuchel don't demand their players put a shift in and they get it from them
It might not look like it at times but I also believe the vast majority of players want to do well. I don't think they want to have fans on their backs, they want to be applauded not booed
If we get the right manager in who gets the team playing to their strengths and raises the players confidence we will have a team that we can be proud of
It's finding that right manager that our board of non football people have a problem with.
17 Jan 2022 12:42:31
bw I would agree if it wasn’t for the fact Salah now asking for 400k a week to stay at Lpool, and the three managers you mentioned clubs pay huge wages to keep players happy. Utd players on huge wages, do half of them look that bothered?
18 Jan 2022 00:34:43
Hi Woburn. you probably won't read this with all the posts about the new manager but in some ways the money proves my point. Yes - there is obscene amounts of money being paid to players all over the Premiership but it's not just that what keeps the players of City, Liverpool Chelsea and I'll add another - Leeds playing to the max
It's the managers insistence of them putting in a shift - every game - or they are out
I wish wages weren't so high - football is losing its connection with the fans partly because of it, but these players are dedicated professionals driven on by their managers, their own desire to be successful and admired and also by their fans.