PART TWO: Potter, Conte & A New Manager Bounce - How important is the manager?
The Athletic FC Tactics Podcast
The Importance of the Manager in Football
I think the role of the manager over and above all of those other things is the thing that I think we do maybe inflate the importance of. But like you say, in football, there's so much variance. There's so many things at play. And it really is a form of performance. They're doing the same thing as players where this isn't generally how they are as a person. A lot of people were quite surprised by how Mourinho came across on the Spurs all on nothing documentary. He turns out to be a nice decent bloke. That clip where he sits down with Delhi Alireally openly says, I think you'll regret stuff if you don't explode and become amazing
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