​Bizarre: these 5 managers and their crazy methods 🤯Management genius or crazy ideas?In recent years, coaches’ management methods have evolved enormously, sometimes involving unconventional ideas or an emphasis on extreme discipline.We begin this non-exhaustive list with the inevitable Mikel Arteta.Mikel Arteta and the pickpockets (among other things)Over his seasons at Arsenal, Mikel Arteta has become known for innovative and outlandish ideas to strengthen his team’s mentality. Adopting a dog named “Win”, showing montages poking fun at his players during training—but his best-known method remains the pickpocket stunt.During a team dinner, the Spanish coach hired professional pickpockets to empty his players’ pockets. At the end of the meal, Arteta asked his players to check their pockets, and some discovered that their personal belongings had gone missing.With this idea, the Gunners’ coach wanted to show his team the importance of staying alert at all times, particularly on the pitch.Guy Roux and the nightclubsDuring his years at Auxerre, Guy Roux revolutionised plenty of things, including keeping tabs on his players… quite literally! Eager to see his squad perform and worried about what his players might get up to away from the football pitch, the coach devised a very surprising surveillance system.”This was right at the start of the professional era. The players didn’t know that the bouncers were also the people responsible for protecting referees at stadiums. So whenever players were there, the bouncers would call me at 8:30 in the morning to let me know,” he explained on RMC.Roberto De Zerbi and his training retreatsDuring his turbulent spell at Marseille, Roberto De Zerbi attracted plenty of attention with his famous “ritiros”. During these several-day retreats abroad in the middle of the season, the Italian coach took the opportunity to work on his squad’s mentality.”I’d never done anything like that before, Jonathan Rowe recalls. I didn’t even know it was allowed in football. We went to the middle of nowhere, in the woods, in the cold. We’d wake up at four in the morning and go running or walking through the woods. Then we’d do press-ups, a little strength-training circuit with torches in complete darkness, then another walk. Then we’d do hill sprints. De Zerbi would light a smoke flare and start marching as though we were Vikings,” Jonathan Rowe explained in The Athletic.Guardiola and his players’ weightObsessed with performance, the Spanish coach reportedly imposed a draconian diet on his players when he arrived at Manchester City. The unfortunate Kalvin Phillips recently fell foul of it.But nobody tells the story of Guardiola’s obsession with his squad’s weight better than Samir Nasri. The former Sky Blues player looked back on that period on First Team. Enjoy without moderation.Louis van Gaal and his dropped trousersThe Dutch coach is no soft touch and likes to back up his words with actions. In an interview with Bild, Luca Toni