The Manager: Inside the Minds of Football's Leaders

Great book

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

Weak. I expected a book filled with more insights and breakdown of the various managers and their styles. Instead it's a (very) conventional business book using the managers as foils to explain selected features of "leaders" and leadership. Crap. It has such a generic feel to it, I think I could have written it cobbling together the managers' bits from public interviews. Don't buy it.

Really enjoying this book. If you are interested in both business and football (which is a reasonably common combination!) I think you'll find it a fascinating take on the normally rather hidden world of football management. The book draws heavily on extensive quotes from recent candid interviews between the author (Mike Carson) and many world class football managers, which are interesting in themselves (amazing how he managed to get access to them all!). Mike then does a good job of drawing out "management themes", which have various parallels with the regular challenges in day-to-day business that we all face, helping making the whole topic accessible and bedded in reality for us the fans. Wouldn't surprise me if it ended up in a number of blokes' Christmas stockings this year ;-)

Insightful and powerful, Carson's personal interviews with the best football managers in our time, provides valuable insights into the leadership qualities that make theses men successful. Carson bridges the leadership qualities that succeed in managing football, to those that succeed business. Based on his extensive experience, Carson provides sage advice on how to succeed as A leader. If you are a football/soccer fan, you will love this book. If you are a leader of leaders, you will appreciate and gain much from the study of what drove these leaders to the top.