On the playing side, a lot of guys I played under were pretty good managers.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
I got even with all the bad management I had by being a good manager.
I've played quite a few good guys.
Bad ballplayers make good managers.
When you've been in the game as long as I have, you know the managers you've played for, the good ones and the bad ones. Even the good ones get fired.
The best, most successful managers in the modern era are those who can keep a player happy even if he is not in the team. Given the size of the squads and the use of rotation nowadays, that's tougher than it's ever been.
I'm not a defender of old or new football managers. I believe in good ones and bad ones, those that achieve success and those that don't.
I've been around some really good guys from different teams.
You know over 20 years I played for a number of managers and dozens of coaches. I don't know any of them that I didn't learn something from to help make me a better player.
We made some mistakes. We had some managers we didn't like and had to get rid of, and that cost some money. Stuff like that. But overall, we did really well.
All the managers in the world, it doesn't matter how good you are, if your players don't understand what you are looking for or what you want, it makes no sense.
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