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It's not an easy challenge picking up players in January, I've always found it tough. Clubs don't want to release their better players.
Sometimes when I'm watching managers on television and I see all that anxiety I realise that I don't miss the job as much as I thought.
The champions are the team with the most points...if United have more points, it means they have more points, that's all. Nothing else.
Just because a player drops down a division, it doesn't mean he's turned into a bad player overnight and isn't good enough for England.
Management, whether you're managing in the lower division or you're right at the top, is about getting the best out of what you've got.
But to me the bottom line is the more education you can give yourself, and the more preparation you can do, the less chance of failing.
Referees will make good decisions and bad ones. But when they make decisions actually affecting a game of football, it's disappointing.
Buffon is a gentleman thinking only of the ball [after Gianluigi Buffon's strong tackle on Andy Carroll during a friendly with Newcastle
I love the English spirit because when I was a player, I was an Englishman: I was fighting, and you had to kill me if you wanted to win.
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.
For me, as a coach, it is important to put together a team that not only blends but finds the right balance between defence and offence.
Messi is the Best. There must be life out there somewhere, on some other planet. Because he is too good and we are just too bad for him.
It's a rule to give all, and it can make the difference if you work more. If you don't have to give all, and you still win, what's this?
I was a fan of Henk Groot, former striker of Ajax, who scored many goals with his head. I thought, 'I can do that also,' but I couldn't.
I like English football; it's a very important league. I like the crowds in England, too - they are noisy and create a special ambience.
It is very important that you can express yourself, especially at half-time in a changing room, which is the crucial time for a manager.
In every club, 11 players are happy and the others unhappy. This is correct because if one player doesn't play and is happy, he's crazy.
When you have a team that has won for 20 years, the mentality is strong. When you don't play well, you still know you are a strong team.
I don't think you can manage 400 games in the Premier League, 550 in the Championship, play 980 times and not be a little bit organised.
I know what it means to the supporters of Newcastle to try and win something and realistically, the cup competitions are our best route.
In the dressing room there is nothing better than when a good player walks through the door and the guys say 'I'm glad he's come along.'
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.
Defeats are always tough, whatever you have lost, and they affect me the same way they affect anyone who loses a match - no more or less.
My role is to take the player to his limits, to provoke him, to annoy him against me, because in this nervousness is the will to improve.
It's suggested I am big pals with Willie McKay. Am I? I don't think I am. He is an agent. You need these agents if you want to do a deal.
It's down to the players, but when you're at Man United, there isn't a lot of greener grass on the other side. You are at the best place.
Mandela means a lot to the world. He's something special. There's only a few people in the history of mankind with that kind of charisma.
My management skills are more suited to developing teams to be better than what they were before, and not just about avoiding relegation.
In football, you can never say anything is certain. The benchmark is 38-40 points. That has always been the case. That will never change.
When you're so young, it's important to understand exactly what your role is. Not just look good - you have to be efficient and effective.
It's not important how many mistakes you make; it's about how many chances you create and how many goals you score. That is my philosophy.
Football is not always as glamourous as some might imagine, as the story of the first time I signed Marouane Fellaini perhaps illustrates.
At some point, I would like to coach Argentina, but I have to improve as a coach. I would like to do it in the final stretch of my career.
It's my belief that Barcelona are successful because they have a number of youth teams alongside the first team. They are where it begins.
I made Edgar Davids vice-captain. Nothing to do with colour, just because he was playing excellently and because he lives like an athlete.
I don't think there is any place in football for drinking. I have said on several occasions to players: You don't put diesel in a Ferrari.
You can say that strikers are very much like postmen: they have to get in and out as quick as they can before the dog starts to have a go.
It needs time. Nobody wants to hear it, but that's the truth: if you want to have success in the future, you have to be ready to work now.
That's what you want to do as a manager, finish the game, get in your bath and think about the kids going home, the young kids going home.
Statistics can be so misleading. It is funny, though, how often at the moment you see one team had 60 per cent of the ball but still lost.
I have to concentrate on my job and try to do my best in the things that I know. Coaching the team and trying to have a winning mentality.
For me, David Silva is a fantastic player because his technique is incredible, and he understands when the right time to pass the ball is.
I've taken challenges with the big risk that it can all go wrong. But that's what I like and I'd rather do that than be safe all the time.
For me, the Premier League is full of quality, and the clubs competing at the top are the same who compete at the top of Europe every year.
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.
Our job is to make the fans happy. When we win, 45,000 people go home happy. When we lose, it not only affects them, it affects their cats.
Very few of us have any idea whatsoever of what life is like living in a goldfish bowl,except, of course, for those of us who are goldfish.
I don't think I'll ever calm down. I'm afraid that's me. Honestly, I'll just take one massive big 'woof' and I shall be gone. Heart - gone!
My youth coach told me he'd got these two great 15-year-olds. I told him I don't want to know, because by the time they're 18 I'll be dead.
I understand 100 per cent why someone would want to buy Newcastle United. It's very clear: it has the potential to be one of the top sides.