The Football Manager's Guide to Football Management - Hardcover

Macintosh, Iain

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9781780893532: The Football Manager's Guide to Football Management

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ISBN 10: 1780893531 ISBN 13: 9781780893532

Publisher: Random House UK, 2015

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The ultimate user bible to playing Football Manager.
     Football Manager doesn't need you. Football Manager will happily play on without you, carefully managing and tinkering with its teams, happily playing out an eternity of football whether you are there to watch or not. To play Football Manager, at least beyond your first assignment, you have to prove yourself worthy of Football Manager. And perhaps this is where the source of the addiction lies. From the first moment, the pressure is on. Your team, your tactics, your ideas, your strategy. It's all on you and if you fail, the computer is under no obligation to let you back in.
     The purpose of this book is to follow those ley lines that run between the game and reality. It's to ask the managers of reality about the issues that face the managers of the game. It's to use all that the real world has to offer to give you the inspiration to prevail.
     Want to know how to lay down a club-wide template for free flowing football and boundless success. Ask Brendan Rodgers. Want to know how to advance from the lower leagues to the Premier League while following your instinctive desire to produce intelligent, entertaining teams? Ask Roberto Martinez. Want to know how to quickly improve teams, sometimes with the transfer market, sometimes just be cheering up the players? Ask Harry Redknapp.
     But we're going to go deeper. Do you want to know how to set up a scouting system that serves the needs of a 21st century elite club? Do you want to know how to balance a coaching routine, maintaining fitness while improving technique? Of course you do. That's why you picked up this book.

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About the Author:

A football writer by trade, IAIN MACINTOSH has written for newspapers, magazines and websites around the world including: Sports Illustrated, ESPNFC, The Blizzard and the Irish Examiner. This will be his eighth book.

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