#football-management

#football-management

Everyone at the London Stadium as well as millions around the world saw the criticism, abuse and ridicule Slaven Bilic was subjected to last Friday night as we recorded a superb win over West Ham [then managed by Bilic]. What they didn't witness was that same man standing outside the Brighton dressing room afterwards, waiting for each and every one of our players and coaches to offer congratulations and a warm handshake.

Before and after every game, Premier League managers speak to reporters and journalists, through the good times, the bad times and even the times when they're close to getting sacked. But how important are commitments to the media and can an interview make the difference between winning the support of the fans and losing it? Former Rangers, Brentford and QPR manager, Mark Warburton tells John Bennett how it can be difficult to control your emotions immediately after a match and how they can be used as a way to get messages to both supporters and players.

I am very much looking forward to this new role. I am convinced that with strong teamwork and a focus on RB Leipzig's strengths, we can tap into significant potential. I can't wait to get started in January and to get to know the club on a deeper level. Together, we want to continue on what is already a successful path, and achieve our ambitious goals.

"I'll know when the time's right to retire - but I haven't reached that stage," he tells BBC Sport.

I needed to do the press and I guess I felt it my responsibility to let people know,

I've known of this club for a long time and, whilst we are not in a good moment at this time, we are excited to work together with the players and staff to turn things around," Clement said.

I suffer from impostor syndrome quite a lot. I didn't turn pro until I was 23 so I never 100% believed I was good enough to be a professional footballer, but weirdly that motivated me to train harder than anybody else,

It means different things at different stages. The older I get, the more I think about the importance of joy within it, especially when it's your job. You have to always deal with the realities of trying to get a result every week. Enjoy it. That's the reason you loved it, it's the reason you grew up playing, it's the reason you coach. Joy is what it means to me.

"I've done everything at Chelsea and for me now, the one thing that is missing is being manager of the football club hence why I went into coaching after I finished, because my dream was to go out and learn my trade a little bit."

Hughes' CV is not too shabby - more than 600 appearances as a player for the likes of Manchester United, Chelsea and Barcelona. Then as a manager more than 450 top-flight games at Blackburn, Stoke City, Southampton, Fulham and Queens Park Rangers, as well as an 18-month spell at the Etihad Stadium just as City were coming under their transformative Abu Dhabi ownership.

"I haven't been ready because I haven't got that (coaching) team set around me. And the timing hasn't been right," he explained. "My daughter's just had a baby. I've just become a granddad. I wasn't ready. I haven't got my staff ready. "So unfortunately, those opportunities have come at the wrong time, if you like. "But if the right call comes my way, the right club, the right challenge, and I've got my people set, which I will have at some point, I'll take that challenge on because it's in me."

I believe we had the football IQ and intelligence to adapt and make it work together, Gerrard told his former England teammate Rio Ferdinand on the Rio Ferdinand Presents podcast. But there was a bigger problem with England in my opinion. I think we were all egotistical losers. I watch the telly now and I see [Jamie] Carragher sitting next to Paul Scholes on this fan debate and they look like they've been best mates for 20 years,

F**k knows! he smiles when asked by FourFourTwo how he ended up as Hornets skipper. For the first game of the season, the armband was on my seat, no-one had said, You're going to be captain', it was just there. I thought, Oh, OK'. I bluffed it for two years, remembering what Tommy Mooney, Michael Ricketts and Michael Dobson did for me when I was at Walsall, and John Eustace at Watford. I thought OK, let's try to blag it'.

"He's done a good job in Ireland, and he's just left a job," said Keane. "It's his dynamics; the way he speaks, the way he comes across. "Duffer's been up at Celtic, he's done his coaching with Ireland. He won the league with Shelbourne last year, but then he just left recently."

Ger Brennan's transition from managing Louth to Dublin occurred over a five-week hiatus, while Dermot McCabe moved from Westmeath to Breffni immediately after leaving.

Southampton fans endured a wretched Premier League season, finishing with just two wins, a total of 12 points, and suffering relegation, the earliest in Premier League history.

Will Still reminisces about his early days as a video analyst at Sint-Truiden and the sense of fulfillment he found during that time, stating, "Best time of my life, to be honest. It was like the dream was coming true."

Rival managers Ole Gunnar Solskjaer and Stephen Kenny demonstrate different styles and approaches in their respective football environments, highlighting contrasting philosophies on the pitch.

The whole system is lubricated by agents: how they work and how they make things work. At my club, we have closed the door to that now.

A good FPL manager plays the game like chess. It isn't about who to pick this week or even next; a good manager looks at blocks of fixtures and targets players with good medium-term fixture runs.

Pep Guardiola expressed that he needs a break from football to focus on himself, indicating uncertainty about the duration, which could be anywhere from one to fifteen years.