2 min readMay 12, 2022
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- Of course I have dreamed about that — and about showing off the Champions League trophy to the cows back in Liencres.
- You will see that I am a direct and sincere person, I don’t beat around the bush and I will address something if I see it.
- When you come to a new team there’s always uncertainty about how they’re going to respond.
- All I’m interested in is giving my players the tools they need to win.
- I have no problem with people expressing their opinion as long as it is with respect.
- I only guarantee one thing when I take over a new club: that we play good football.
- More time and less pressure would be a lot better, that’s true.
- I don’t have a lot of time to lose and I would like to win the Champions League or La Liga. If I could win them both, even better.
- I want my tombstone to say that I won the Champions League with Barca.
- I’m a romantic, I like the football.
- I understand that it is very difficult for Barca and Madrid to win everything until the end.
- Madrid’s anarchy can make planning difficult: they’re unpredictable. But if you can be defensively sound and use the ball well, making the most of the space they leave, you can do them damage.
- I have this philosophy of play that I love and my teams play well.
- I want my team to play well almost all of the time and have possession of the ball.
- If Messi didn’t have it clearly in his head that Barcelona have a winning project, maybe he would go, but Barcelona are always looking to have a winning project.
- I love to watch and have great footballers and if I can watch Neymar every day, just imagine.
- I’ve come from the bottom, I’ve got used to working with what I have.
- Madrid’s players are carried along by the football itself, what they feel in each moment; they’re not guided by tactical rigor or a specific structure.
- In these fixtures, the past is forgotten. What is rewarded is the present. This is a Clasico: two teams that will be at 100 percent regardless of the situation.
- I’m interested in the football; everything outside of that is something I can’t control.
