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 s t hri l l e ed about f acing Ancelotti today at Goodison Park and rat e s him as t he game’s greatest manag manager because he is such a class ac act.
“I ’ l l 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 i t ’s t h e b e s t sports book.
“It’s about how to lead and manage people and he i s my i dol more than anyone else.
“I ’ m n o t a s h o u t e r o r screamer. I try and creat e t he r i ght culture and speak to people how I w a n t t o b e spoken to. From r e a d i n g h i s book, he leads i n a s i mi l a r way. I ’m n o t 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 n e e d s a b o o st a nd
Rotherham have slid to next to bottom of the Championship following a run of one win in nine games.
He admits he i s enduring the hardest spell of his managerial career but says his new Red Fox Labrador, Chief, lifts his spirits.
“I had a ver y l ong day on Thursday, two players came in to discuss their situations, which w e r e v e r y u n c o m f o r t a b l e 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.”