Basic People Management Skills

[Didsbury Dave]

Just when I was getting all warm and fluffy about how the team is coming together, I read this:

On Thursday Given was left out of a match in the Europa League although he had thought he would start: “I thought I’d have played but I don’t know what the manager’s thinking because he hasn’t told me,” he said.

I despair, I really do. That is basic and simple people management.

Talk to the fucking players, let them know where they fit in and keep them motivated. If they're not first choice, let them know that if they work they will get a chance.

It's not difficult. If you're too aloof to do it, get one of your staff to do it. There must be someone on our staff who's job it is to liase with the players.

I worry deeply about this message which we've heard time after time now.

I actually suspect he didn't say that. i suspect the intervewer asked him "What's the manager's thinking?" And he said "I don't Know" and the interview said "Has he told you?" And he said "No".

That's how press interviews work - it is accepted that the journalist paraphrases like that. Some press use this to their advantage but in this instance it appears to be just buried in the interview so you can't throw accusations at him (or her). If the headline was "The manager never talks to me - Given" as you might see in some newpapers then you can call it press sensationalism.

That is some leap in the space of one thread.

It seems

On Thursday Given was left out of a match in the Europa League although he had thought he would start: “I thought I’d have played but I don’t know what the manager’s thinking because he hasn’t told me,” he said.

I despair, I really do. That is basic and simple people management.


So the original point of your despair of Mancini's people management is based on a question that may not have related to that subject.

You've lost me.

 

[robbieh]

More insider info from the wisest man in christendom.

Do you have a nurse who presses the buttons on your keyboard for you Rob...? Do you actual have use of any of your motor skills since the procedure? Anyway, it's good to know that even without a brain, you still are fighting to have a personality, no matter how bland it may be...

Billy you really are one condescending, arrogant sob.

You couldn't take a bit of sarcasm despite having labelled me as being lobotomized. And now you spout this childish drivel.

 

[Soulboy]

Interesting comments on his thread. Personally Im pretty pissed off that Given decided to spill his guts yesterday - the journo was even the clown who accused Kolarov of feigning injury at the Spurs game.

However, the facts are this. Given did not want to leave in the Summer - and was not interested in going to Fulham. He is very settled in the area and is the second highest paid GK in the PL. Now a month later, he decides to spill his guts. He even resorted to cheap digs like 'Mancini doesnt speak good English'.

What he now wants is a loan move where City pick up half his wages. Well it aint gonna happen. If anybody wants you in January let them offer the club a transfer fee - and then you toddle off and earn half the wages.

Whatever he thought he would achieve with this article, its made him look a twat.

Its no coincidence our defence looks far stronger with Hart in the team. I really hope we keep Hart in goals on Wednesday.

As for the manager not talking to players. Who cares. Mancini is a winner - and he is surrounding himself with winners.

Given wants to have a good look at himself, and have a look at the £400k a month he earns, and then shut the **** up.

This reads spookily like the way Bellamy manipulated the situation into getting a freebie transfer to his home town club to be with his family.

Wind the press up, wind the manager up, let everyone know you want out and will become a pain in the arse if you don't get your way...

Yeah, sounds just like the Bellamy deal.

 

[Anonymous]

Dunno mate, as I don't know of any players who get their mates to post things on the internet at their behest...

Post of the day! I doth my cap sir.

You did sort of set it up...and I was telling the truth...so it was winner on two counts...;- )

 

[KenTheLandlord]

That is some leap in the space of one thread.

It seems

On Thursday Given was left out of a match in the Europa League although he had thought he would start: “I thought I’d have played but I don’t know what the manager’s thinking because he hasn’t told me,” he said.

I despair, I really do. That is basic and simple people management.


So the original point of your despair of Mancini's people management is based on a question that may not have related to that subject.

You've lost me.

Now you know how we all feel.

You are basing your theory on answer Given may or may not have given, to a question he may or may not have been given.

People are sceptical of your theory.

 

[Didsbury Dave]

Whether he gave the information in one sentence or in two, or even three. doesn't change the fact that he gave the information.

You're all over the place, Ken.

 

[levets]

but privately a bully
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Say's who? A model pro or a story teller?

Actually, a few people have said it. None of whom had any reason to lie as they weren't the people being bullied...

Well, I personally know people who have worked with him and under him and a 'bully' he was never described as. A real friendly unassuming guy was how he would be described.

 

[Damocles]

When did somebody posting an opinion, then over the course of an 18 page discussion hearing other's opinions, thinking about them, considering them and adapting their own opinion to this new way of thinking become a bad thing?

 

[Anonymous]

Do you have a nurse who presses the buttons on your keyboard for you Rob...? Do you actual have use of any of your motor skills since the procedure? Anyway, it's good to know that even without a brain, you still are fighting to have a personality, no matter how bland it may be...

Billy you really are one condescending, arrogant sob.

You couldn't take a bit of sarcasm despite having labelled me as being lobotomized. And now you spout this childish drivel.

Bearing in mind that I do generally avoid you like I avoid unsigned bands during In the City, and I even generally ignore your comments when they are aimed directly at me, don't you think you'd be much happier by taking a leaf out of my book and leaving me the fuck alone? We could both get on with enjoying Bluemoon, safe in the knowledge that neither of us does, or will, have even a modicum of respect for the other...almost like a mutual foe'ing but without having to click the button.

Just a friendly suggestion...

 

[1_barry_conlon]

Post of the day! I doth my cap sir.

You did sort of set it up...and I was telling the truth...so it was winner on two counts...;- )

And you've resorted to Zins 'street speak' innit! :)