I intend to give my best, to improve things and to create the football team in relation to my image and my football philosophy. I'm not a defender of old or new football managers. I believe in good ones and bad ones, those that achieve success and those that don't. Please don't call me arrogant, but I'm European champion and I think I'm a special one.

The only way to stop Messi is to double mark him. One player to stay on him and the other to help out.

Football is a game about feelings and intelligence.

There are only two ways for me to leave Chelsea. One way is in June 2010 when I finish my contract and if the club doesn’t give me a new one. It is the end of my contract and I am out. The second way is for Chelsea to sack me. The way of the manager leaving the club by deciding to walk away, no chance! I will never do this to Chelsea supporters.

The way I use to develop an aerobic condition is three against three, man to man, in a square 20 metres by 20.

You win by effort, by commitment, by ambition, by quality, by expressing yourself individually but in the team context.

Fear is not a word in my football documentary.