
good. How any good manager should be. They should never be friends with their players.
A telling bit from his interview last month (mainly Milan stuff then):
“Dialogue is complicated in a locker room. You enter and almost everyone has headphones on with loud music. Nobody talks to anyone else.
“It requires authority, respect and patience. It’s not my style to underline every day that I’m in charge. I point out they are forced to listen to me not because I’m the best, but I am the oldest.
“There are talents like waves, for example Alvaro Morata and Kingsley Coman. They go up and down, so you need to keep an eye on the flow and wait for the right moment.
“Some players need to be taken by the hand and educated, like children, but from others I find collaboration, experience and character.
Having said that, I prefer not to be friends with my players.”