THE MANAGER: Inside the Minds of Football`s Lead

However, The Manager finally allows high-profile football managers to explain themselves and to describe the decisions they make and the leadership they provide. How do you manage outrageous talent? What do you do to inspire loyalty from your players? How do you turn around a team in crisis? By asking key questions in detailed conversations with some of the most successful managers in the history of football's Premier League, Mike Carson uses stories, quotations, reflections and pictures to illustrate key management issues. The book is conceived as an informative, practical commentary on the leadership skills and style of top football managers especially chosen to illustrate specific areas of leadership.

Each chapter will build around material gleaned from face-to-face meetings with the managers, who include Sir Alex Ferguson, Arsene Wenger, Jose Mourinho, Roberto Mancini, Harry Redknapp, Walter Smith, Mick McCarthy, Sam Allardyce and Roy Hodgson. Aimed at football devotees, professionals, and business managers generally, The Manager will look at how managers handle their emotions, their failures, their team, the media, their employers and their life-style, in an abnormally high-pressure environment. Published with the full support of the League Managers' Association, it is an honest, accessible and useful examination of the managerial styles of high-profile characters.