“When a player isn’t behaving the way you’d like, you send in a jerk, a mean guy, usually me to give him a piece of your mind. Then the coach steps in: “What he’s telling you is for your own good; you need to improve that. I’ll help you.” With this generation that doesn't have much passion anymore, the coach has to have the right approach to get through to them [know how to stroke their egos]. Now, they’re able to run and score.” “If you’re too blunt: 'Ah, whatever with the coach, we have a five-year contract anyway; they’ll fire him in six months.” “When I talk to sporting directors, it keeps coming up. It's a new generation. With this (he points to his phone), their ability to stay focused is very short, even in meetings. With Pep (Guardiola at Bayern Munich), we used to have meetings that were, pfff, forty-five minutes long. Today, if you hold a fifteen-minute one, you feel like you’ve ripped their heart out.“ “Out of the pre-season programs you hand out, how many of them are actually going to hire a personal trainer and put in the work during their holidays? When you lose and it was your fault, whether you're the striker who misses a sitter or the defender who loses his man, how many of them actually feel bad about it? They just move on. Not all of them, mind you, but 80%.”   submitted by   /u/Sparky-moon [link]   [comments]