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Every coach has to put himself in his club and to try to become a really important coach for his club. The most important thing is that the club can be happy, the fans can be happy, and the players can be happy with your work. This must be our task. Then, if you are No. 4, No. 5, No. 6, this is not important.
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You can win, but you have to show that you win with the idea of playing good football.
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If they deserve it, I'm ready to play with very young players. Why not?
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Every season is tough.
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I think my task is to work with my players, to improve my team. This is my task.
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I don't trust the people when they say, 'There's pressure when you're top.' I prefer the pressure of being top of the table.
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I don't want to go into the situation of the other teams, other clubs, other managers. Every single club decides their own strategy.
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I think, when you reach the top level, it is less about the money itself; it is important only because the level of earning shows the importance of the player or the manager. I don't think people want to have the money just to spend it. It is a reflection of your importance in football.
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Our target is to win, not to try to make all the players happy.
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I adapt my idea of football to my players, not adapt my players in my idea of football. It's important because there are others players that must play. The players are the most important things in football. I adapt my idea within my players.
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For me, to have my family with me is very important.
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I want to protect my club. I want to try to protect my players. I want to try to protect my fans. Also, I want to try to protect the Premier League.
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It's not important, the relationship between the coaches.
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I must take the best decision for the club, not for a single player.
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You are never relaxed in England. You have a tough league, the Champions League, the FA Cup and Carabao Cup.
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Ours is the most precarious work, as you are in one place today, and tomorrow you are in another.
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In Italy, you're in your comfort zone when it comes to language, lifestyle, your habits and preparations, and moving abroad is not easy. It's not easy to carry over your own ideas about football, your own methods. You have to get everything across in a different language, and that wastes a lot of energy.
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When you lose, you learn a lot about yourself. That experience is important.
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It's important for the coach when you arrive to understand the players and to understand every single player's strength and their weakness.
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I like to study everything: the way to be dangerous when you are attacking; what the players should do when you don't have the ball; where they should be. The tactics you tell the players to follow come from all this study.
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You have to respect the job of the other coach and then stop. He's an opponent: I stop. Finish. I have respect for his job. He must have respect for my job.
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To defend - it is very difficult to win two titles in a row.
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The pressure, for me, is not important. I was born with pressure. The pressure is not important for me.
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It is important for the manager to find the right solution for your team.