The Manager: Inside the Minds of Football's Leaders

Great work !! Author very well connects football world to corporate.You should read if you love football and want to know 'how football manager thinks?' and 'why do they do what they have to do'

Good book.

One of the best management books in the modern scenario. At a time when football is a money making machine, and managers are hired and fired, some have created a legacy for themselves.

One of the best books on football. Amazon service as usual. 5 stars! I would recommend amazon and "The Manager" to any football fanatic.

Worth reading it

A good read for introduction to real football. A lot if grammatical mistakes though

Amazing look into the daily headache that these football managers have to go through to manage the club the team and every individual player.

Lovely read, awesome content, well written and very well presented.A compilation worth a read

Buonissima lettura per chi vuole approfondire la materia calcistica relativa alla leadership e alla guida delle squadre (in questo caso squadre di Premier fino ai primi anni '10). Sarebbe bello avere una versione aggiornata ai nuovi allenatori della Premier come Guardiola e Klopp su tutti, ma anche i vari Dyche, Lampard, Arteta, Espirito Santo, Hasenhuttl ecc

Inspiring book! I like the way the author arranged the chapters. All the topic of each chapter is connected to the next chapter as if it's a flow of story.

A must have for coaches. Lots of good tidbits on leadership. It encourages you to develop your own style instead of following someone else.

"The manager" was recommended to me by a friend who is a big soccer fan. I am NOT. However, I have always been very interested in what makes a good leader. So I thought I would read it...I really liked it for several reasons- It is very easy to read and the author does not use complicated/ technical business words- It provides tons of cool examples and stories to illustrate leadership points - even better if are a soccer fan- It makes you think of leadership from a different lens than the usual business world.One piece of advice: you don't need to read the chapters in the order. Some are more about "people skills", some are more about "structures/ hard stuff". Depending on your interest, you may want to read some before others.

I purchased this book at the Amazon discount price, and it proved to be a bargain. As football spectators and supporters, we are reliant on post match interviews or skewed media stories and reports for our information. Yet, clearly, there is a lot more to football management than meets the eye.“Managers” is the word generally banded about to describe the likes of Ferguson, Mourinho, Wenger, Ancelotti and co but Mike Carson through his extensive research and interviews with numerous managers of the ‘great game’ demonstrates how they are in fact more akin to leaders.It is the behind the scenes insights and little gems of information that made this book a captivating read for me – partly one of the reasons why it only took me a couple of days to finish. For example, Fergie’s encyclopedic knowledge of the game that was an inspiration to his fellow peers and players of the game. David Moyes pursuit of professional development, travelling around France on a limited budget, occasionally sleeping in his car in order to observe some international training sessions. Harry Redknapp pouring his heart and soul into everything he does both football and family.The book is not an ode to the stars of the game . It is balanced and unbiased, attributing time to a myriad of individuals rather than just focusing on those running the top teams.It also deals with peritinent issues in an informative and measured way. For example, how has technology affected and enhanced the game? How have managers dealt with this change?After reading this book you will be under no illusions that the day to day job of these ‘leaders’ entails picking the team on match day and leading a few training sessions. Carson shows how there is not a once size fit’s all. Each of these leaders is an individual. Their success can’t be bottled and sold but is the result of oodles of passion, resilience, vision, knowledge but perhaps most importantly, their awareness and acceptance of their own vulnerability in favour of the team.