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Gary Rowett is the former manager of Stoke City, taking up the job in the summer of 2018 after leaving his post at Derby, before suffering the sack in January 2019.

Rowett began his managerial career with Burton, while he went on to steady the ship at troubled Birmingham City, before controversially getting fired in December 2016, in one of the worst decisions in recent memory.

Managerial Career

Gary Rowett Quotes

When you look at the likes of Mourinho's Inter Milan when they beat Barcelona and Bayern Munich to win the Champions League, they literally gave the ball away on purpose so they could maintain their defensive shape when they were 1-0 up, and I think a lot of teams at this level are looking at those types of aspects and seeing that as a feature of defensive play.

I love Dortmund's ethos and the ethos of Jurgen Klopp, Klopp says it himself: 'if we run more than the opposition, we will win' - and he's quite unashamed about that. It's all about effort and desire.

[John Beck's Cambridge of the early 1990s] was the first time I saw how an effective, solid, organised team could achieve things.