The Manager

Inside the Minds of Football's Leaders

By: Mike Carson

Narrated by: Kyle Munley

From the post room to the board room, everyone thinks they can be the manager. But 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? What’s the best way to build long-term success? How can you lead calmly under pressure?

The issues are the same whether you’re managing a Premier League soccer team or an FTSE 100 company.

Here, for the first time, some 30 of the biggest names in soccer management reveal just what it takes. With their every decision, remark, skill, and success or failure under constant scrutiny from the media and the fans, these managers need to be the most adroit of leaders. In The Manager they explain their methods, give examples of lessons they’ve learned along the way, and describe the decisions they make and the leadership they provide.

Each chapter tackles a key leadership issue for managers in any walk of life and, in their own words, shows how the experts deal with the challenges they face in an abnormally high-pressure environment. Offering valuable lessons for business leaders and fascinating behind-the-scenes insights for soccer fans, The Manager is an honest, accessible and unprecedented look at the day-to-day work of these high-profile characters and the world of top-level soccer management.

©2013 The League Managers Association (LMA) and Mike Carson (P)2013 Audible Inc.

Bad Narration

Absolutely shocking pronunciations of names, team and places. Please in future when you narrate a book, prepare and do your research on the local pronunciations

Brutal

What did you like best about The Manager? What did you like least?

The narration was horrific

Who would you have cast as narrator instead of Kyle Munley?

Anyone else. Sounded like I was getting driving directions and couldn't pronounce one person or team's name.

Was The Manager worth the listening time?

Yes for the content, but had to suffer

Great look into manager’s mindset

I really enjoyed this book. It gave a look into a variety of Managers and covered a wide variety of topics. Great stories and situations throughout. The narrator was a little dry/ monotone and mispronounced some of the names, but I didn’t find it too distracting.

Good book brutal job of narration

This was really a very interesting and insightful work on English football managers. My big complaint is that they should've gotten somebody who was either British or they could've at least coached the narrator on how to pronounce a bunch of the names of the cities in the clubs that were in this book. He missed pronounced a ton of them. That said, the book is well worth it and was very very interesting.

Good management book

Loved listening to this management book. The insights given into the minds of footballs best managers are unique. The book shows what makes a great manager. Loved listening to the book. Would highly recommend.

Scattered

As a coach listening to this, I will need to listen to it atleast twice. The information is superb, however it is scattered and tossed at you so fast. Huge details scattered without a lot of depth at the given time. The depth comes later, but it makes it hard to connect everything at the time. I feel once I listen the second-third time, everything will start to settle in. Performance is dry.

Worst book ever

What would have made The Manager better?

Better narrator

Has The Manager turned you off from other books in this genre?

Almost

Who would you have cast as narrator instead of Kyle Munley?

Anybody that knows the game. I mean he sounds like a robot and he calls Celtic "Keltik" if u knew the game you would know how to pronounce it correct

What reaction did this book spark in you? Anger, sadness, disappointment?

Anger and disappointment

Any additional comments?

Get a better narrator

Narrator is terrible!

Lord help me! I tried and tried to get through this book, only to finally turn it off after Celtic was pronounced Keltic.

Every single name was mis-pronounced. I got confused as to who was Coach Van Gaar - It's bloody Arsene Wenger!