'I've worked with Roberto Mancini and sons of legends - but Wrexham's boss is the best'

Michael Williamson has worked with some Phil Parkinson and Roberto Mancini aft the Wrexham main enforcement spent respective years astatine Inter Milan

Wrexham brag Phil Parkinson has received precocious praise aft being compared favourably to Roberto Mancini.

The erstwhile Sunderland and Bradford manager took complaint of the Red Dragons successful the summertime of 2021, soon aft Hollywood actors Ryan Reynolds and Rob McElhenney bought the club. He has since led the Welsh nine to 2 promotions, and they are present challenging for an unprecedented 3rd successive rise, this clip retired of League One.

Even with 5 promotions nether Parkinson's loop and much than 1,000 games successful shot management, describing him arsenic amended than Mancini mightiness look similar a stretch. The ex-Inter Milan and Man City brag has won aggregate titles successful an illustrious vocation arsenic a subordinate and coach, besides lifting the European Championship with Italy successful 2021.

However, Wrexham main enforcement Michael Williamson has acquisition moving with some managers aft spending respective years astatine Inter. He has besides teamed up with the sons of 2 respected British managers aft holding roles with DC United and, astir recently, Miami FC successful the United States.

Williamson provided an penetration into wherefore helium thinks Parkinson is superior to each of them during a unrecorded lawsuit hosted by Wrexham instrumentality podcast Fearless successful Devotion aft praising his man-management skills.

"I've worked with a batch of antithetic managers astatine antithetic levels," helium told supporters astatine the Maesgwyn Hall successful Wrexham. "Roberto Mancini is inactive a bully friend. I've worked with Anthony Pulis, who's Tony Pulis's son, and I've worked with Paul Dalglish, who's Kenny Dalglish's son… but Phil is by acold the astir enjoyable and the champion manager I've ever worked with.

"I accidental that due to the fact that helium has an attack astir however helium develops and builds the dressing country that I've ne'er seen. He is idiosyncratic who understands personalities, understands people, understands characters, and builds an situation and a mentality. You've seen the results. He's conscionable mostly idiosyncratic I bask being astir and talking to, truthful we've established a large relationship."

Williamson opened up further connected his rapport with Parkinson, whom helium worked with intimately during the January transportation window aft archetypal taking up his station past summer. Last month, Wrexham made 3 signings: erstwhile Premier League prima Jay Rodriguez, Reading's apical scorer Sam Smith, and Hull City winger Ryan Longman.

The model saw the nine interruption the seven-figure obstruction for the archetypal clip ever aft the owners sanctioned a large wealth determination for Smith. Discussing the cardinal to the spot of his narration with Parkinson, Williamson said: "Part of that is due to the fact that I said to him that I volition ne'er unit a subordinate connected you that you don't want, truthful don't deliberation that volition ever happen.

"However, I volition enactment parameters connected what we tin do, whether it's budgetary, whether it’s looking astatine the property illustration and making definite we cognize that erstwhile we put successful a player, determination is simply a crushed for it. That could beryllium that we request to put successful a subordinate to assistance america get promoted, oregon we request to put successful a subordinate due to the fact that erstwhile we get promoted, we request to marque definite that we person a squad that's been built on the way."

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