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Celtic's a brilliant football club, and they have an unbelievable fan base - one of the biggest in the world.
If you want to keep your best players, you need top European football because they want to be involved in that.
I love to see goals and attacking play; I want us to be entertaining. But it's no good if you're shipping goals.
I don't think anyone ever turns down their national team opportunity, but I think it has to be at the right time.
I would like it to be the rules all round the world that that is the case - you manage the country of your birth.
I have a point to prove. Sometimes you have to repair things, and maybe I have a little bit that I need to repair.
I would still consider myself in the elite group of managers. If it was me against someone else, I'd trust myself.
We had a really good club at Everton who gave me the opportunity to do the job the way I felt it needed to be done.
Messi is the world's best and gets physically attacked every game but all he ever does is get up and get on with it.
At Everton, we have always tried to do good deals and have always tried to buy at the right age and the right price.
I think, with more experience, I'm probably wiser, calmer. You hope you'll be able to use your knowledge a bit better.
The last thing I'd ever want to see is another manager being sacked. I certainly don't like the phrase 'sacking season.'
Your reputation doesn't stand for anything. You have to come and try to get up and show you're capable of doing the job.
I watch a lot of football. It was always my hobby. My wife just sits there with a bored face, thinking, 'Is he really watching this?'
I had plenty of opportunities before I went to Spain to stay in England, and I had made a decision that I would go and work in Spain.
Manchester United was a club with great traditions, traditions where they tended to pick British managers. That tradition has now gone.
I'll answer as many questions as I can, but when people have a contract at other football clubs, I think it's wrong to talk about them.
I've always been quite strict when it comes to the appearance of my players. I don't want to see earrings in training, things like that.
I think people know that I've got things in my mind that I want to do and things I wanted to change in time. I can't do it all overnight.
Football is not always as glamourous as some might imagine, as the story of the first time I signed Marouane Fellaini perhaps illustrates.
People often talk about a coach's philosophy, but generally, I think managers look at the players they have and then decide on their style.
I agree with Arsene Wenger that finishing in the top four is the equivalent of winning a trophy - even if you don't get to parade silverware.
I would have to consider the U.S.A. job if I was approached because it's one of the big nations in world football, with massive growth potential.
I would never have left Everton for anybody but an ambitious football club. And I thought Manchester United would have given me that opportunity.
You can't ring up another manager and say, 'Who do you think I should pick this week?' But you take the good and bad from people as you go along.
It took time at Everton to build a team so that when we did go to United or Arsenal or Liverpool, we went with a good chance of getting a result.
You don't manage more than 900 games, mostly in the top half of the Premier League, if you haven't got something that enables you to cope with pressure.
I'm a great believer in the lower leagues, the pyramid system, but there is mileage in having B-teams in England with young players playing competitively.
If you play for Manchester United, there is always someone out there getting ready to take your jersey. It is up to you to fight and make sure you keep it.
I'm always very careful when I'm spending the club's money. I treat it like it's my own, and I always try to sign players for what I feel is the right price.
I'd been at Everton for more than 11 years. We'd qualified for the Champions League, got to an FA Cup final. I'd been voted manager of the season three times.
When I took over at Everton, the challenge for us was to try to go toe-to-toe with a club having success in Europe and sometimes competing for the Premier League.
We have played a very good side, playing at the sort of level we are aspiring to. We need to come up a couple of levels ourselves because at the moment we are not there.
Phil Neville could be on the road to one day, maybe, becoming the England manager. I know him closely. He was a great captain, a great leader. He's had great experience.
As a young Scottish footballer growing up - I always used to follow Scotland and watch the games - Kenny Dalglish, Graeme Souness, and Joe Jordan were players I looked up to.
Real Sociedad fans are fantastic; they know that the club is trying to join the other teams who are always in the top part of the table - to get as close to them as possible.
Supporters don't like the idea of people going to ground too easily. Everyone who has ever played football, everyone who's been involved, would hate that. You'd be saying, 'Get Up!'
It's true that players can take time to settle at a new club. I remember people telling me it took Patrice Evra and Nemanja Vidic a while - players who became great players for United.
I was very fortunate that I had a great scouting staff at Everton from the academy, because it was those people who got the likes of Ross Barkley and Wayne Rooney when they were young.
With Marouane's hair, I actually wondered if it might take a bit of the pace off the ball when he went up for a header. But I soon realised it was part of his personality. Part of who he is.
It's definitely better to be a good league team than a good cup team. It shows consistency. The cup could be down to a lucky draw and might not show the value of your team like the league does.
For me, Marouane Fellaini has been one of the best midfielders in the Premier League over the last few seasons. If he continues to improve at United, we’ll have a really good player on our hands.
I would like to thank the United staff for making me feel so welcome and part of the United family from my first day. And of course thank you to those fans who have supported me throughout the season.
I found the support inside Old Trafford has been terrific and, if there was ever a show of support for the football club and team, it was in this game. Inside Old Trafford it was terrific, it really was.
Bryan Gray at Preston gave me a chance, even though Joe Royle and Ian Rush were being linked with the job. He taught me an awful lot about structuring the job and encouraged me to invest in young players.
I think retrospective viewing of diving is nearly more important than some of the technology they are on about bringing in. If you do that and players get banned, it wouldn't take long before you'd cut it out.
Football has always been in my blood. It's more than just an occupation, but as you get a little bit older and wiser, you want to be able to pick and choose and make sure you get the right club at the right time.
One of the reasons why I wanted to be part of the League Managers Association was because I felt there were an awful lot of foreign coaches coming into these shores, but we were not exporting enough British talent.
It's a great honour to be asked to be the next manager of Manchester United. I am delighted that Sir Alex saw fit to recommend me for the job. I have great respect for everything he has done and for the football club.
I know how hard it will be to follow the best manager ever, but the opportunity to manage Manchester United isn't something that comes around very often and I'm really looking forward to taking up the post next season.