Michael Beale hits out at ‘snakes’ who have apparently undermined him as a manager as he defends his record.
He’s described on the podcast as one of the best young English coaches in the country, having had incredible career which has has seen him work at all academy age groups at Chelsea and Liverpool.
He has been first team assistant coach in Brazil, in the Premier League at Aston Villa and at Rangers. He also been Head Coach at QPR, Rangers and Sunderland.
Beale joins the podcast to discuss development from the very youngest all the way to the first team, development from Pre Academy to First Team, the coaching family, the way he does things, criticism, social media, and many other topics.
👀🐍 wonder who he’s talking about pic.twitter.com/FCizehc7ne
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Interviewer: What about I mean remember Dave Collins who to be a sports psychologist at Chelsea, talk about the rocky road to success, tell us about the rocky road to success in terms of coaching, I mean, how I mean you know how is it for you?
‘How do you deal with for example you know the crowd getting on top of you you know you’re getting criticism of you know the disc jockeys whatever on the radio and then then in one minute you’re up here next minute you’re down there what’s that like person need to deal with and tell us that must have been a real shock to the system imagine coming from you know Academy football.”
Speaking on the Inside the Academy podcast, Beale said: “Yeah it’s not listen it’s not nice and also you can shut yourself off from it but no one else is shut off from it do you know what I mean.
“I think the biggest thing with social media is we get so influenced by it positively and negatively you know you know social media you can go on and find like the interview Cole Palmer did the other day and you can use that with your players on a real positive but also you can see a manager getting hounded.
“What I’ve seen stepping back and having this time out is I’ve seen some of my friends as managers and they’re really getting it as well even when they’re doing well do you know what I mean.
“And there’s a lot of fan media, does it exist if, you know I remember the first fan media was maybe Arsenal Fan TV and they obviously didn’t oust Wenger but they made his last few months more difficult it’s fair to say and if Wenger was winning if Arteta wins now is there any fan media cuz you know you ain’t all a praise it’s a game of opinions but now the opinions are on you.
“You can shut yourself off from it but if everyone else in the building’s reading it it does influence everyone else if your family’s reading it does influence so it’s difficult it’s difficult and there’s no real way of knowing how someone’s going to react to it until you’re in the middle of it .
“I think some’s really unfair you know I think some things really unfair does anyone care about my story there’s no point me coming on here and talking about, no one cares, like so you just have to yourself down.
“I think what you have to remember is what do you love about what you do what makes you jump out of bed every day.
“For me it’s about helping someone do something that I couldn’t do so I I failed at trying to be a professional football player I fell short so any young kid that I’ve coached or been around or seen that’s gone on to fulfil their dream to play at whatever level you know there’s quite a lot of unhappy Championship and League One players cuz they were trying to be Champions League playoffs there’s a lot of players like that that sort that you see them and they’re like they’re distraught cuz they or they’re embarrassed cuz they didn’t make it to play for England but they’re paid to be a professional football player it’s like you saw them at seven or eight the journey they’ve been on is unbelievable but they don’t see any of the achievement.
“And so I’ve had that sort of the last year been thinking about what do I love about the game, what do I not like about the industry.
“So I have to keep my focus on the bits that I love so coming on here and talking to you about development for you guys is great for me like even thinking about coming on and then having a chat I’ll make a phone call to someone later go for a walk and I’m buzzing, if I can talk about the positivity of the game and the journey that’s my concern with first team football you know.
“So also I always work to travel and go overseas and learn the second language learn with the game even if it’s not working just going and listening to other people so I’ve really pushed myself back on that journey so it’s I’ve got a couple of projects next year coming out one on this Player Development journey in terms of like at each stage like you versus yourself that journey of like how could you help as a coach guide a player or be there for the parents is quite complex because I think I finished and then I think of another chapter.
“So it may it may end up being something that never come but then also the coaching the ones twos and threes something that we’re all passionate about in terms of hard drive and out playing so one’s more off pitch one’s more on it but I think they ultimately they’re together and so no it’s, that’s the big thing I think with the outside media it’s not going away.
“I just think that we have to as a as an industry think about abuse because me as a 40 year old man I can take it I’m worried about no you’re talking about Brennan Johnson a couple of weeks ago coming off social media because it’s too much you know when you keep seeing players come off like how are people getting away with making people feel about themself for want of better words, do you know what I mean like, where people get off doing that and it’s never people that are achieving if you noticed that it’s and again.
“So how do you prepare our young players if we’re talking about players coming out of under the radar because you want to keep them under the radar as long as possible but then all of a sudden they poke their head out and they’re top top player and they take off like the amount again that comes back to like the awareness of keeping your support network small because it does just swell like.
“Around a couple of the moves I’ve had as a manager, I saw loads of snakes and people come out of the woodwork. And I didn’t like it.
“It made me uncomfortable, and perhaps I would’ve made better decisions if those people weren’t around, but that’s for another time.
“Ultimately, I’m very, very fortunate that I’ve been a manager at QPR, Glasgow Rangers, 52,000, Sunderland, 44,000 in the Championship.
“I’ve worked in the Premier League, I’ve worked in Serie A and I’ve worked in over 60 games in Europe across the Europa League and Champions League.
“So I have 257 games in the system, 77 games as a manager and at 44 years of age I feel like I’m at the start of my career. In that sense, I still feel like I’m a young coach.”
🚨 Exclusive: Al-Ettifaq have appointed ex-Rangers boss Michael Beale as Steven Gerrard’s assistant. Announcement imminent with full agreement already in place.
Beale was also Gerrard’s assistant at Aston Villa and Rangers.🟢🔴 pic.twitter.com/X0m1TaHU2D
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