To achieve great things you have first to believe it.

Everyone plays the ball over the top and, at the moment, we only concede goals from crosses or balls over the top. I feel we will adapt to that.

If I go into a season and I say, 'For f***'s sake, if we don't win anything, they will all leave,' I have already lost. The problem of the media is always to imagine the worst. The problem of the manager is always to imagine the best.

I am supposed to take the bullets and absorb them. Like a bear, a polar bear.

If you don't question the officials' role then you've got to ask what they are doing

As a coach you can influence the diet of your players. You can point out what is wrong.

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.