Sunday Sun

Vital management lessons

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from the managers he played under, most notably Benitez’s coaching techniques at Liverpool.

“I’ve definitely taken my own style in what I want to see in terms of the football, but I have also taken dribs and drabs from others I’ve played for,” Kewell told Nottingham­shire Live.

“Rafa Benitez is one as an example. He was the master of you walking into his office thinking: ‘I know, this is what I am going to say.’ And you’d walk out agreeing with everything he said. “How does that work? “I’d gone in there and asked for ‘this’, then agreed to do ‘that’. You’d be like, ‘what?’ But I am their boss and it’s my way or the highway.

“Benitez was fantastic, but he’d say, ‘do this’, and I’d say, ‘but what about this way’, and he’d respond: ‘Fantastic, but this is what I want you to do.’

“It’s little things. When I was with [Frank] Rijkaard and I was 30, he taught me so much about my off-field life, as well as on it.”

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