If a player is not performing, there are two ways of looking at it. You wait for performance to come, or maybe the moment has arrived where you have to change. I could go either way.

When the players think you are strong and that you trust them, it helps them to have a good attitude.

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.

If Messi is the best in the world, it's only because Cristiano is from another planet.

So if one day the result becomes 3-3, for me it doesn't change my mind, because it's football, it's normal. What is not normal is that we haven't been scoring enough goals playing such good football as we've been playing in the last few weeks.

If I am hated at Barcelona, it is their problem but not mine. Fear is not a word in my football dictionary.

The reality is he's a specialist because eight years without a piece of silverware ... that is failure.