Polish Wolf
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According to the Liam Keen article on Bruno, he was an incredible hard worker, often stayed into the evening, when previous unnamed managers left by 3. Ruddy in his interview said that Bruno was a very good coach, but hinted that he was not a great man manager.
Now suddenly it's being suggested that training was a complete doss and players had stopped bothering.
Doesn't sound right to me.
I have been managing teams, of course in a different area, for a longer while now. From my experience I believe all teams, not only in sport, have two areas that need to be addressed.
One is so-called above the water, which is the visible commitment to their work, the tasks that they have to do and ultimately the results they get. The other one, below the water, is all about relationships, conflict solving, communication etc.
In a longer run, if the things below the water are not sorted, they will impact all the areas above the water.
In other words, my opinion is that one can be the best football coach in the world, but if he's not a good man manager, his teams will disengage from his training methods.