Friday, January 1, 2010

EPL managers allowed to innovate


To be able to build a culture, you need to have the time to develop and innovate your tactics, philosophies and ideals.

Inter Milan manager Jose Mourinho feels that the biggest differences between managing in Italy's Serie A and in the English Premier League is that English managers are allowed enough time to build that continuity.

In an interview with Portuguese weekly paper Expresso, Mourinho again hinted he was not totally happy in Italy by saying Serie A coaches were more concerned about keeping their jobs than developing new tactics.

"When after a third of the Italian championship nine coaches have lost their jobs, who is the coach that wants to innovate?," he remarked.

"The Serie A coach does not want to innovate, he wants to survive."

Mourinho, also upset by the grilling he gets by Italian media among other difficulties he has found working at in Serie A, said conditions were better in the Premier League.

He cited Manchester United's Alex Ferguson, Arsene Wenger of Arsenal and Liverpool's Rafa Benitez as coaches who had been given time to innovate and develop their tactics.

"(In England) coaches go way beyond their first contract, even beyond the second and the third one and continue developing their work," he said.

"Italy is much more results-oriented. Those who win, continue, while those who don't, get out."


http://www.nytimes.com/reuters/2009/12/31/sports/sports-uk-soccer-italy-mourinho.html

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