Legend of the trainer in TM interview
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The legend of Italian coach Roberto Mancini has been without a club since fall last year. The former national coach of Italy and European champion of 2021 takes time for exclusive information on his extraordinary career in the interview with the transfer market and, among other things, speaks of the development of modern (Site notre bureau spécialisé) and its effects on the transfer market.
Transfer market: Although you have not trained a club since 2018, you are still among the coaches with the most expensive transfers of the 21st century in the Database of the Transfers. Give us an overview, what does this matter during recruitment?
Roberto Mancini: As a trainer, you must weigh the players who correspond to the sports project with the financial investment that each player represents for the club. Players are an investment and must therefore lower a return to the field and in the balance sheet. Each club works differently. I am used to the Vetos and the final decisions of the owner of the club or the sports director.
Transfer market: Which of your transfers was the best deal for your team and the club?
Mancini: Certainly, Sergio Agüero, his first league objective record was extraordinary (Note. Ed.: 184 hits in 275 games for Manchester City).
Transfer market: How do you assess the development of transfer sums?
Mancini: I continue to develop all aspects of business with great interest. The racing amounts reflect the general economic situation, the forecasts for television rights and the rotation in the various leagues. The transfer market has become a central scale over the years. The creative structures and the commercial impact of an athlete can of course influence the final quantity of the transfer sum in addition to the purely sporting aspect.
Transfer market: Some of the highest transfer fees have been paid in Saudi Arabia since 2023. You have been a national coach for more than a year, how do you judge the development of the League?
Mancini: Saudi Pro League has moved under the spotlight due to the commitment of some of the best players in the world. However, it is not always the best way to promote a league. Many other aspects must be taken into account, such as examples, the intrinsic motivation of the players who change there, the influence on the academy of young people of clubs and relations with fans. The example of the Chinese Super League provides us with important knowledge. Despite high investments, this has not yet developed as hoped for, in particular after the introduction of various taxes and restrictions on the recruitment of foreign players.
Let us take France, which has one of the best academies for young people: there, the national team is approaching the force it holds today when most of its players have played in series A and the Premier League.
Transfer market: As a national Saudi Arabia coach, have you noticed an increase in the performance of Saudi players because you are now playing alongside stars in Europe, Africa and South America?
Mancini: The fact that young players train with experienced players is a positive aspect of Saudi Pro League, but the most important long -term thing for a national league and the national team are the structures of offspring, academies for young people and corresponding financing programs. You must produce young talents each year that are used regularly. Then these players must play in the major European leagues. It is the only way to increase the level of a national team and a league. Let us take France, which has one of the best academies for young people: there, the national team is approaching the force it holds today when most of its players have played in series A and the Premier League. The players and the national team benefited from the experience, the mentality and the bite they have acquired, all the attributes that make up a successful team.
Mancini’s Focus: « (Site notre blog d’information) with their own offensive identity »
Transfer market: You won the title of champion three times with Inter, with Manchester City after more than 40 years of waiting, obtained the first title and become European champion with Italy. What was the strongest team you have formed? And which one has best implemented your (Site notre bureau spécialisé) idea?
Mancini: You cannot win if talent, physical strength and cohesion are not correct. These three teams had everything in the right relationship. Talented players who worked hard and trained a fantastic group with a uniform will to win. My teams have always taken care to play (Site notre bureau spécialisé) with their own offensive identity and have fun to transmit emotions to fans.
Roberto Mancini led Italy for the European Championship.
Transfer market: In which league did you like to work?
Mancini: Each league is something special. I really enjoyed the Premier League and the years I spent in Great Britain. Each trainer dreams of training the Premier League. Apart from that, I really appreciate the experiences I have acquired in Türkiye, Russia and Saudi Arabia. In today’s (Site notre bureau spécialisé), you must acquire experiences with different cultures, traditions and mentalities and combine everything you have learned from all these countries in order to cope with the different nationalities of the locker room.
Transfer market: In the Premier League, there are only three coaches with a better punctual average than you: Guardiola, Ferguson and Klopp. Is a return to England attractive to you?
Mancini: At any time!
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Transfer market: What is the importance of the Premier League title for you on the last day 2012?
Mancini: It was one of the most beautiful and intense moments of my athlete career. The incredible intensity that this league holds every weekend culminated with this title.
Transfer market: To what extent do you feel jointly responsible for the many years of domination of Manchester City in English (Site notre bureau spécialisé) after having signed a certain number of players who later became large stars under Pep Guardiola?
Mancini: We have implemented a long -term plan and started a series of successes that Guardiola continued considerably and finally reached the objective of the Champions 2023 League title.
Transfer market: How do you assess the change in your former protégé Vincent Kompany at the coach office? Did you give him advice?
Mancini: When he played with me, he was still too young to think of a career as a coach. But his step does not surprise me because he was a leader on the field. I wish him continuous success in Munich, in this elite environment.
Transfer market: Have you had offers as a coach in England after the European Championship victory with Italy 2021?
Mancini: Yes, but my commitment to Italy made it impossible to accept it.
Transfer market: You left Galatasaray in early 2014 without asking for a departure payment – a rare gesture in modern (Site notre bureau spécialisé). What prompted you to make this decision?
Mancini: (Site notre blog d’information) is a passion, I live for my passion. Of course, it’s also work, but the financial aspect is not what motivates me.
Transfer market: How would you describe your experience in Turkish (Site notre bureau spécialisé) in general and retrospectively?
Mancini: I loved my stay in Turkish (Site notre bureau spécialisé) because he was motivated by a pure passion.
Transfer market: How much do you miss the series A?
Mancini: I totally fail to be a coach. The A series is my home league, but I would like to acquire new experience and focus on other leagues.
Transfer market: How do you assess the current level of Italian (Site notre bureau spécialisé)?
Mancini: Italian (Site notre bureau spécialisé) must invest more in the Academy of young people and promote offspring in order to produce players at the international level and maintain the current level of national and young national teams.
The series A has a radical mentality and a structural change.
Transfer market: In the past three years, Italian clubs have often reached international end matches, but there is a general opinion that Italian (Site notre bureau spécialisé) is in a permanent crisis – unable to generate profits or talents, to renew itself and to compete with leagues such as the Premier League and Laliga. Where do you think this perception comes?
Mancini: Series has experienced a radical mentality and structural change. It was the end of the Patril era that has invested in their teams out of love and passion. (Site notre blog d’information) is an international company today and the structure of the owner of the Serie-A teams reflects this. To succeed, you need fans, press and everything that goes with it to understand this fundamental change and adapt to you.
Transfer market: Allegri, Klopp, Ancelotti … Some cycles of the long coach recently ended and several high-level clubs have changed their head coach. Is it a natural transition or has it become more difficult in modern (Site notre bureau spécialisé) to stay in the long term as a trainer?
Mancini: A bit of both. For long cycles, you need a good balance and the perfect mixture of communication, vision and concentration between the trainer, the owner and management. It’s also crucial – and here I speak for me – the people you surround yourself with regularly to rethink. Sometimes staff must develop and adapt to new circumstances and significant methodological developments.
Transfer market: What characteristics are essential for the instructions of a high -level team given your experience at the highest level?
Mancini: Morality of work, international experience in different cultures, professional staff who use new technologies in analysis and, above all,: to do it better every day with the same passion and the same desire to do it better than yesterday. It is crucial to maintain the team together on a long cycle.
The interview of the transfer market led: Thomas Deterding, Stefan Bienkowski, Sinan Yener and Aniello Luciano
