Plus there was the footgae of BR copying alex fergusons old '3 envelopes trick' - psychology for the under 7s?
well it worked for fergie so why cant brendan use it as it is proven to be a good tactic ?????
.... I'm not sure it was a good motivational tool as it emphasizes the negative and promotes fearmongering and scapegoating. I just hope the envelopes are either empty or contain the names of already transferred players.
Good grief!!!! ;-)
The basic psychology behind that trick is indeed to have 3 empty envelopes. However, Brendan has shown several times that he likes to publicly humiliate/berate/criticise his players so I wouldn't be at all surprised if he actually did have names in the envelopes. We won't find out though unless there's a follow up series.
Has he really done this, ie, publicly humiliate etc? I think he did it for Downing recently and I think Sterling in the US, I don't remember for others? In any case, IF the players do not perform because of his management skills then the team will under-perform and probably there would be somebody holding an empty envelope with his name in it.
