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I have to justify my job every day.
To play with mobility is what matters.
For me, motivation is like obligation.
We always prepare for winning the match.
In my career I have achieved important titles.
The formation is not the most important thing.
I don't have doubts that Everton is a big club.
You cannot be a winner without maturity and consistency.
Everton is a really ambitious club and that is what I want.
In a season you can have good moments and others not so good.
What I want in my squad and my players is to fight for our goal.
Of course, Hazard can create problems in each moment of the match.
When I prepare for a game the names are not really important to me.
If we want to do better and get stronger, we have to keep our best players.
When you are a club like Everton, you only have one solution - to aim to win.
It is important and a good sign when somebody compares you with a good coach.
Football is not just about physical, technical, tactical. It's mental, really.
I have my philosophy in my mind: you need to adapt for each moment and each team.
Always, always, always when you prepare for a game, you prepare to win the match.
I have to give all the solutions and feedback to my players if we want to improve.
All the coaches want to win every match, every coach is working to win every match.
With good relationships and a good environment, you can achieve things more easily.
It would be ideal to have someone scoring a goal in every game but that is not easy.
When you are winning games in a row, normally what the people say about you is good.
We'll work hard every day to prepare for the matches and to do our best in every game.
It is easy to understand when Everton performed better it was when they had stability.
Moise Kean is Moise Kean and Lukaku is Lukaku. It doesn't make sense to make these comparisons.
It is really tough now to buy a player - everyone is asking millions and millions and millions.
I have in my mind that I want to improve every day, I have to analyse if I want to achieve this.
Even against big teams like Arsenal, who have a lot of quality, you need a lot of quality as well.
My players know the 'fear' word or something like that does not go inside our dressing room. Never.
You need to have your feet on the floor sometimes but you cannot take away the ambitions of the fans.
With full focus and the full commitment and, of course, with good results, everything can change fast.
I know a manager doesn't ever have time to look long-term. You have to support everything with results.
You cannot achieve your goal just with young players. We have to see them growing in a stable, mature squad.
Our fans can push our squad, even if they were not happy with the last match, and create a strong atmosphere.
We cannot change every week our idea and philosophy as a club if you win two games or you don't win two games.
Every week we work really hard on that, in our defensive and offensive set pieces, and in our routines as well.
If the player performs well and helps us to achieve our goals, nobody will speak about the price of the player.
When you are professional and working in a club like Everton, the obligation is to be motivated, to be focused.
If I am here it is because the club believes in my job and it is my obligation to justify the quality of my job.
All of us, we know, not just in football but in life, that we cannot achieve important things without consistency.
I love Hull as a club, the people there are amazing, at Watford and now Everton. I have big respect for all of them.
In football it is impossible to win every match but we must do everything to show in every game that we have ambition.
I took a big risk to come to Hull, I have to be honest. But I loved it there, I really did. Great club and great people.
In football, whatever can happen can happen when the team performs well and sometimes when the team does not perform as well.
If I have an idea of football, and I am the manager, it doesn't make sense for the club to find players with a different profile.
I have one idea: if you play better then you have a better chance to win. So my teams are dominant and I want them to be like that.
When you believe in one player to improve the squad, you have to do everything that is possible for us as a club to sign these players.
When you have good players in your squad that means other clubs are looking to them as well. For me, it is a normal situation in football.