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PART ONE: What constitutes success for a Premier League manager?

The Athletic FC Tactics Podcast

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How Long Does a Manager Have a Session Within a Club?

I think on the note of the class teacher and head teacher analogy, I do think it kind of feeds into how long a manager has a stint within the club. If you're asking a manager to get across their philosophy, their ideas or the sort of cliches, then if they'd be given a matter of months, then that's just not going to happen quite in the same way. A team that plays good football but is really good at winning games that we don't really care too much about the long term. It's great in the short term and I see why that must really galvanize players, especially off the back of maybe poor performances. But I think that's just

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