Just give him whatever he wants...
Within just a week, however, Wagner had made his mark.
Training schedules were changed to mirror kick-off times. Players were instructed to move within 15 miles of the training ground. And a high-intensity playing style - which the hipsters call 'gegenpressing', Wagner prefers 'Terriers identity' - was vigorously enforced.
'It has worked!' exclaims Wagner,
Wagner certainly did not know how his players would respond to a pre-season trip around a chain of uninhabited islands off the Swedish coast.
Okay, so the trip was into the wilderness. Canoeing from island to island. Eight hours a day. We built tents. We found water. We found food. We had to fish.
We cooked it. There was no electricity. No toilet. No mobile phone coverage. It was great!' he finally exhales, somehow making the notion of such primitive isolation sound like a five-star resort.
'This was the training, for four days. No balls. We made it uncomfortable, because in the Championship there is no comfort zone.
Wagner studied biology and sports science at Darmstadt University for five years when he retired from playing in 2005. Why? 'I wanted to understand why a manager did something with me in training,' he explains.
'What happens inside my body when he tells me to run 6 x 1000m with 90 seconds break? Why? Why is this good? I did it as a player, because I trusted my manager.
'But, after studying, let me just say that not everyone was right… I can now talk with my medical team on a different level and we are able to find new ways. It gave me a greater perspective of a manager's work.
'It's good if you know what you are doing to your players!' Five years at university for the father of two young girls was also a test of Wagner's discipline, not to mention his ability to study a new subject.
'To be honest, if I'd known how hard biology was, I would not have done it,' he says. 'The first part was only chemistry, and I hate chemistry. One and a half years studying chemistry!
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