Daily Mirror (Northern Ireland)
WARNE ADMIRES CARLO A LOTTI!
Millers boss is a fan - but won’t ask for an autograph
ROTHERHAM ROT boss Paul Pau Warne can’t wait wai to meet his idol Carlo Ancelotti – but won’t ask him to sign his copy of the Italian’s Italian book.
Warne claims Ancelotti’s ‘Quiet Leadership’ is the best sports book he has read because beca it chimes with his managerial philosophy. p
He i is s thri thrilled l le about facing Ancelotti today at Goodison Park and rates him as the game’s greatest manag manager because he is such a class ac act.
“I ’ ll be a bit star struck, I can’t help it,” i said Warne. “I love meeti meeting legends. They say never meet your heroes, but I don’ don’t see life that way. “It’s gr great to see these people in person and I will probably look at him with envy and think his shoes look more expensive than mine. They look like very good Italian I shoes and not something off o Amazon.
“He rates as the greatest. I’ve read his book ‘Quiet ‘Q Leadership’ and I think it ’s th e b e st sports book.
“It’s about how to lead and manage people and he is my idol more than anyone else.
“I’m not a shouter or screamer. I try and create the right culture and speak to people how I want to be spoken to. From reading his book, he leads i n a s i mi l a r way. I ’m not saying I’m taking his book and making him sign it, I won’t go that far. But I will definitely tell him I have thoroughly enjoyed it.
“Then he can read my six pages in a few years’ time.”
Warne, 43, who is the EFL’S fifth longest-serving manager having been in charge at Rotherham since November 2016, hopes to get the chance to pick Ancelotti’s brains.
“I want to chew his ear off, I want to tell him he’s great and hopefully he will reciprocate with even more love,” he quipped. “Hopefully he will say, ‘What a job you’re doing at Rotherham, what a guy you are’!”
Warne needs a boost and
Rotherham have slid to next to bottom of the Championship following a run of one win in nine games.
He admits he is enduring the hardest spell of his managerial career but says his new Red Fox Labrador, Chief, lifts his spirits.
“I had a ver y long day on Thursday, two players came in to discuss their situations, which were very uncomfortable conversations,” he said. “Then I had a very long recruitment meeting and a couple of uncomfortable conversations with agents.
“But when I got home my dog was like ‘Wow, you’re home!’ A dog is like a dream for me.”