I have only been here since 1996 but between 1966 and 1996 England had thirty years without foreign players and didn't win any more competitions in that time.

If you buy a man who is half dead, everybody may be happy off the field, but on the field you'll have major problems

I do not think about the national team too much because footballistically it is not of too much interest.

What motivates me is an ideal of thinking about how football should be. And to try to get near this way of playing. And to try to improve all aspects of my personality that can help me get near this ideal way of playing football.

I would be much more annoyed if we hadn't won the game. As a manager, you have to see the positives and I think Pires has a vaccine for the rest of his life.

Private life is private life. Off the pitch, there is private life, and the rest is social life, where of course you have to behave responsibly.

Sometimes now, when I watch continental games on television, I'm a bit bored. I ask, 'where is the intensity?'