Words matter. These are the best Mike Phelan Quotes, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
Players are human and when they get the opportunity to relieve the pressure, some deal with it in different ways.
I had a fantastic career at Manchester United.
Once you have had success there are always people focusing on why it happened. Inevitably, there is a lot of scrutiny when you don’t achieve the same again.
Decision making is always top of the tree when it comes to the big football clubs and where it takes you.
Strikers can’t score every week, much as they would like to.
There’s no excuses for over-drinking.
I would never disrespect anybody who phoned me up or got in contact. I don’t work like that.
Taking on a temporary coaching role at Manchester United is extremely exciting.
The players have to understand how it feels to be fatigued and then go again.
There is fierce competition within the city. If United are at loggerheads within the club, it just helps fuel City’s cause more than anything else.
I’ve grown up having faith in youth because without that there is no future in football.
At times you are going to miss people. When that happens, others have to come to the front and show the calibre that brought them to the club in the first place.
I had experience in abundance at Manchester United and it’s up to me to bring that here to Hull.
Setting points targets is sometimes the worst thing you can do – it puts pressure on.
I’ve been in the lower divisions, I’ve been in the higher divisions so I have got the experience.
It’s hard for an up and coming player who has the eyes of Manchester United on them to take that opportunity and then sort of not given the opportunity to break through because of the quality already there.
Many fine coaches never become great managers.
It’s not for me to hold any grudges or anything like that.
I’ve been an assistant for a number of years.
Jose Mourinho has experience of Premier League football and winning the title. He’s a European Cup-winning manager so he knows what it is all about.
You have to master the ball, play with confidence and play with character and courage.
Any manager of any big institution, which is what Manchester United is, internationally, you have a role and a responsibility to give out the correct messages.
Managing people is no different wherever you are.
The target is to win football matches.
There’s no shortage of investment into Manchester United.
From a footballer’s point of view, if you want to choose a football club, then Arsenal is right up there with the best.
Not many people become manager of Manchester United. Sir Alex had it for a long, long time, then a few have come along since to try to emulate him and make them the champions again.
I was offered the opportunity at the Mariners to pass on my experiences and wisdom in order to develop the football club back into the football club that it once was.
We have to be more courageous and braver and sometimes take a knock. You can’t just be a pretty boy, you have to get your body or something on it. When it is a one-on-one situation you have to carry out that duty.
Berbatov is a great talent, there is no question about that, and as coaches and managers we demand more from great talents.
