Hi guys! This is my third post about this book and this post will be about the main problem of the book and the obstacles that Sir Alex faced. So far I read 318 pages out of 350 so I'm almost done with this book.
There are a lot of different problems described in this book and it's really hard to tell which one is the main one. The first problem that he's talking about is when he was young and he had to take care of the pub he was working in. Although he had to fight sometimes to keep people calm and friendly and he had to work from 6 am till late night he said he learned a lot about people's thinking and behavior while working there. Another problem was his retirement from managing. In 2001 he first thought about retirement but his wife told him that he's crazy if he's thinking about retiring at that time. He also had problems with player's behavior. Some of them weren't training as hard as he wished they did, some didn't behave well and some didn't bother to learn English at all. It was ahrder for Sir Alex to help the players that didn't speak English but he was lucky that those players were just great (e.x. Cristiano Ronaldo didn't speak English at all when he joined Manchester United and he still didn't speak much after he left but he's quality as a player helped him and also something that helped him was that the second coach was also Portuguese and he could translate him everything). An example of a bad behavior player was Roy Keane. In his last 2 years at United he turned into a beast. He was swearing at the players, saying bad stuff about them at interviews and just didn't behave as a football player should so Sir Alex finally fired him but he had a regret when he did it because before that happened Roy was an amazing player and he was the captain of the team and Roy Keane is still considered a football legend (if you don't know who he is just search him up). Carlos Tevez was a player that didn't train at the level that Sir Alex was expecting but he played amazingly well when he did. Tevez is still playing but now he's playing for Juventus Torino (go ahead and search him up too if you need). Another problem in the life of a manager is having bad results with your club. Sir Alex had a period of his career when he had really bad results but he was lucky that the club owners believed in him and knew what he can do.
This is my post today! I hop you enjoy it. I included the problems and the obstacles in the last paragraph and I think I did it well :)
Have a nice weekend!
There are a lot of different problems described in this book and it's really hard to tell which one is the main one. The first problem that he's talking about is when he was young and he had to take care of the pub he was working in. Although he had to fight sometimes to keep people calm and friendly and he had to work from 6 am till late night he said he learned a lot about people's thinking and behavior while working there. Another problem was his retirement from managing. In 2001 he first thought about retirement but his wife told him that he's crazy if he's thinking about retiring at that time. He also had problems with player's behavior. Some of them weren't training as hard as he wished they did, some didn't behave well and some didn't bother to learn English at all. It was ahrder for Sir Alex to help the players that didn't speak English but he was lucky that those players were just great (e.x. Cristiano Ronaldo didn't speak English at all when he joined Manchester United and he still didn't speak much after he left but he's quality as a player helped him and also something that helped him was that the second coach was also Portuguese and he could translate him everything). An example of a bad behavior player was Roy Keane. In his last 2 years at United he turned into a beast. He was swearing at the players, saying bad stuff about them at interviews and just didn't behave as a football player should so Sir Alex finally fired him but he had a regret when he did it because before that happened Roy was an amazing player and he was the captain of the team and Roy Keane is still considered a football legend (if you don't know who he is just search him up). Carlos Tevez was a player that didn't train at the level that Sir Alex was expecting but he played amazingly well when he did. Tevez is still playing but now he's playing for Juventus Torino (go ahead and search him up too if you need). Another problem in the life of a manager is having bad results with your club. Sir Alex had a period of his career when he had really bad results but he was lucky that the club owners believed in him and knew what he can do.This is my post today! I hop you enjoy it. I included the problems and the obstacles in the last paragraph and I think I did it well :)
Have a nice weekend!
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