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It’s not always the fault of the manager when a player is not performing well, I can tell you.
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 hope at Manchester United I can do my best. I will do my best.
I like it if a coach enjoys himself and is passionate.
I worked at the number one team in the Netherlands, Germany, Spain, and now also in England.
As coaches, we have to give a lot of information. Too much, I think.
To look at the players, to communicate with the players, to observe and to analyze – that’s my job.
You have to live in the present, I think.
You need always guts to put youngsters in the squad and also in the line-up.
I think you have to refresh the squad every year, and I have done it with all my clubs.
I am amazed when people say I am single-minded.
A World Cup is always special because it is the highest podium on which you can show your abilities as an individual player or coach, and as a team.
I thought always Manchester United can buy every player because they have a lot of power.
You are always evaluating. That philosophy is very important for me. Because of that, I am – or maybe I should say was – a very successful manager.
The coach is the focal point of the team, but you need to have an open mind, and so do all the players. Everyone needs to work together to achieve a common goal.
Players count for nothing. The team is everything.
The media do not analyse the game. They analyse the result.
When you have an older group of players, they play on automatic pilot a lot of the time, but with youngsters, you have more intuition.
I am not a usual coach: it doesn’t matter for me who are scoring the goals.
I am used to a lot of criticism.
With Ajax, I played Mexico in Mexico City, and our players could hardly keep up for half the match.
I’m not a stupid man.
It’s difficult to beat German teams. They don’t play as attractively as, for example, you have it in the English league or in the Spanish league. But to break a German team is not very easy.
It has been an honor to manage such a magnificent club as Manchester United FC, and in doing so, I have fulfilled a long-held ambition.
Every coach wants to train Manchester United; it’s one of the biggest clubs in the world.
I had to follow Bobby Robson at Barcelona. He had won three titles.
I think the team is always better than the individual player.
I’m always honest.
I don’t think my players are robots. They are humans and make errors.
It’s a principle of my philosophy that you have to respect the individual human being.
I watch the Premier League, the Spanish and Dutch leagues, and a little bit of the German league.
I am immensely proud to have helped United win the FA Cup for the 12th time in the club’s history.
Rashford’s pace is incredible. You don’t catch him when he breaks away.
It’s not hard at all to make the switch from United to Oranje. For a manager, it’s totally different than for a player.
With Luis Enrique, I never expected he would become a coach. He was an intuition player; he didn’t speak with me about tactics.
Having managed in Holland, Spain, and Germany, I had always hoped for the opportunity to manage in English football and be part of English culture.
Everybody thinks I am a narcissist. I am actually the opposite of that.
We need to learn that in the Champions League, the referees are vigilant and quick to whistle.
I am more open than other coaches with all of my players.
My conviction is that a full professional also wants to live professionally.
When I speak, I am well articulated.
I was 11 when my father died, so I didn’t know my father so well.
Players can play bad, and certainly when you have only three days or six days training sessions in your legs, and you have to play 45 minutes. Everybody can say that it’s easy to step in, but it is not easy.
Yes, I have a philosophy, and you have to come with good arguments to change that philosophy, but, if someone has a better argument than me, then I will change.
A player needs to focus on one thing to be successful, while a coach is thinking about the whole process.
At Bayern, the people in charge are football men. I always appreciated that.
When you have a lot of ball possession, you have a lot of ball possession to create chances, not to play the ball around and not score.
I am open with the players, with my media officer, and also the media.
I think I could have worked as a technical director. But in this role, you can’t attend training or say anything for fear it won’t suit the coach, directors, or media. I don’t think I want a job like that.
You have expectations always when you buy players. Mostly, you have positive expectations.
You have to play football to entertain the fans.
In the Netherlands, the press writes what they want.
Having coached Ajax, Barcelona, the Netherlands, FC Bayern, and Manchester United like I did, it is difficult for any offer to be interesting.
OK, Wayne Rooney is always the center of attention, and I always have to answer questions about him. But Wayne is Wayne, and he will always contribute in a game.
Every player gets his time, no matter who you are.
I speak English my way, but people understand it. You can understand everything I say, and that’s the most important thing.
The accommodation for the players to dress themselves, to change into their club shirts, are in most stadiums not so good.
The most important thing is they have to know why we do things and when. A lot of players are playing intuitively, and I want them to think and know why they do something.
The pitch is the most important material for a football player.
I have to treat all of the players at the same level with the same rules and same demands. It’s difficult to understand, because the outside world is thinking when you pay a lot for the player, then you have to put him in the squad.
I have been privileged during my management career to have won 20 trophies, but winning the FA Cup, which is steeped in so much history, will always be one of the most special achievements of my career.
I hope that all the people who work with me remember me as a human being.
I look for players who do not just score goals but provide an attacking point, linking with other players and able to see the third man as well. Van Persie is one of the best strikers around at that.
I think it’s fantastic to be here in England. They live football: football is living, and living is football.
When you win the FA Cup, you have a title and a very respectable title in England – more than other countries.
I criticize the media for inventing stories.
You cannot buy players and know, for sure, that they can deliver. You cannot know because football is a team sport.
It cannot be a good thing when a club is run solely from a commercially-driven perspective.
The media likes me because I give honest answers. How many people in football give honest answers? I don’t lie. Always the truth. OK, maybe my truth. But it is the truth.
Every human being is special because they all have identities.