I am not against being pragmatic, because it is pragmatic to make a good pass, not a bad one. If I have the ball, what do I do with it? Could anybody argue that a bad solution like just kicking it away is pragmatic just because, sometimes, it works by accident?

English players are as easy to coach. The problem is that the Premier League has the best players in the world, and statistically not all of them can be born in England. But we don't have enough English players: we are working very hard on it.

I think generally the Japanese players have more intensity in practice but generally I do the same things.

Of course, we also have the responsibility to win games and the difficulty in the job is to combine both.

Some are wrong because they are not strong enough to fight temptation and some some are wrong because they do not know.

Of the nine red cards this season we probably deserved half of them.

In a competitive world, not everybody can follow the pace; you will leave people out. We now accept that we must take care of these people. You cannot let them die in the streets; people will not accept it. And that is right, too.