I didn't know the English were good at swimming. I have been in this country for 12 years and I haven't seen a swimming pool.

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.

Gerard Houllier's thoughts on the matter international football echo mine. He thinks that what the national coaches are doing is like taking the car from his garage without even asking permission. They will then use the car for ten days and abandon it in a field without any petrol left in the tank. We then have to recover it, but it is broken down. Then a month later they will come to take your car again, and for good measure you're expected to be nice about it.

I'm not scared to spend money. If you go out with me one night, you will understand that.

I know how important it is to have a helping hand.

For me, motivation is a person who has the capability to recruit the resources he needs to achieve a goal.

I think in the future we need to look at our youth department to provide more players for the first team think it is important for a club to have a good amount of players that have roots with the club and region.