We need the whole squad, every player of the team, if we are to be successful.
In football, the worst things are excuses. Excuses mean you cannot grow or move forward.
I am grateful to be here, and I will always be grateful for the opportunity Manchester City gave me.
Creating something new is the difficult part. To make it and build it and get everyone to follow? Amazing.
The most difficult thing in football is to score a goal.
I don't like it when a player says, 'I like freedom; I want to play for myself.' Because the player has to understand he is part of a team with 10 other players. If everyone wants to be a jazz musician, it will be chaos. They will not be a team, and nothing will be possible.
Tactics are so important because everybody has to know what they have to do on the pitch. The relationships and behaviours off the pitch between team-mates have to be as good as possible.
I try to be positive. I speak to my players about how we have to play, respect the rules. What I have done is always be positive.
You can win ten times, and then you are not able to win five times. I have to discover the reason why, and I am going to find that.
People talk about tactics, but when you look at it, tactics are just players. You change things so that the team can get the most out of the skills they have to offer, but you don't go any further than that.
The fundamentals, what I want, which is to take the ball, try to play as offensive as possible and dominate the game through the ball, is the same. I grew up with that; I was a player with that idea, and I am a coach with that idea.
As time goes by, people get to know you better. They pose problems for you, and you have to come up with solutions.
This was how Johan Cruyff worked. He was demanding a lot, but when you got there, and you were in his team, he was an incredible protector. He would push and push you, and then he would protect you. He was a master at handling players. He knew when you needed to be pushed or protected.
People say you must be pragmatic, more clinical. More pragmatic than me? I'm sorry.
What happens in the Premier League is that when they arrive in the area, they punish you.
I am here just to learn, to improve, to help my team improve.
I proved myself in Barcelona, and after I proved myself in Germany, I wanted to prove myself in England.
When Klopp speaks about his football being heavy metal, I understand completely. It is so aggressive. For the fans, it is really good.
Sometimes I was wrong about my players. Sometimes I want more and more from them; sometimes I am so demanding, but they showed me how good they are.
It doesn't mean my footballing ideas are special, different, better than the others. I am not saying it's my football, my ideas, and the other coaches are nothing. It's the way I believe. I'm not special.
