Over-achievement with Mac v Under-achievement with Clough

[NickLangley12]

One of the big differences with Steve's coaching seems to be team respect. Since he took over we have never heard any rumors about him falling out with any players, which seemed to be a weekly event in Clough's day.

Back in the days when when he was Jim Smith's No 2 I remember reading an interview with SM where he revealed that he was interested in the best way to handle relatively wealthy (compared with the previous generation)young players and how he thought a lot could be learned from American professional sports where big money had been around for much longer.

[Fletch_11]

One of the big differences with Steve's coaching seems to be team respect. Since he took over we have never heard any rumors about him falling out with any players, which seemed to be a weekly event in Clough's day.

Back in the days when when he was Jim Smith's No 2 I remember reading an interview with SM where he revealed that he was interested in the best way to handle relatively wealthy (compared with the previous generation)young players and how he thought a lot could be learned from American professional sports where big money had been around for much longer.[/quote]

Another point linking to this is that Steve McClaren will automatically generate a level of respect - he has been in the game a long time and has won titles and cups in his own right as well as coaching the best ever Man Utd team of a generation! He has been England manager and is respected by senior profession

[triz]

One of the big differences with Steve's coaching seems to be team respect. Since he took over we have never heard any rumors about him falling out with any players, which seemed to be a weekly event in Clough's day.

Back in the days when when he was Jim Smith's No 2 I remember reading an interview with SM where he revealed that he was interested in the best way to handle relatively wealthy (compared with the previous generation)young players and how he thought a lot could be learned from American professional sports where big money had been around for much longer.[/quote]


Thats a very interesting point. It's something sir alex seemed to excel at too so maybe Mac helped with that. Super important in this day and age.

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One of the big differences with Steve's coaching seems to be team respect. Since he took over we have never heard any rumors about him falling out with any players, which seemed to be a weekly event in Clough's day.

Back in the days when when he was Jim Smith's No 2 I remember reading an interview with SM where he revealed that he was interested in the best way to handle relatively wealthy (compared with the previous generation)young players and how he thought a lot could be learned from American professional sports where big money had been around for much longer.[/quote]


Thats a very interesting point. It's something sir alex seemed to excel at too so maybe Mac helped with that. Super important in this day and age.[/quote]



I think your right, Clough came from a non league background where his blunt no nonsense approach worked with p