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“And pick up some lunch from ‘Pizza by Alfredo’ on your way back from the signing”

Xavi who? Doesn't matter. He's Spanish. Give him the job.

This is reading like a Roy Bhaskar treatise (Verso, 2007)

I’m actually a little triggered by this because I just went out of my way to procure a book by a famous coach and so far it’s all just been tedious stuff like this: defining things that actually need to be simplified (if they need to be defined at all) in ways that actually render them 100% useless

The needing to hit the 2,000 word requirement on a college essay experience right there

Look, I love being pretentious about coaching philosophy as much as the next guy, but at least my unhinged ramblings in my tactics notebook aren’t formatted like a college paper desperate for word count.

Chapter 1: 50,000 words to say "soccer is complicated" Chapter 2: Open your eyes to the secret cabal of super agents on the dark side of football