Chris Hughton Quotes

My idea is to know every player and to know, also, the personality of the players.

From our perspective, the most important thing is what you do with the players, how you handle them, your ability to communicate with them.

With Zidane he had a lot of relationships with the players, a father-son relationship. Like a friend. Solari does the same, he is being fair to everyone.

It's important for the coach when you arrive to understand the players and to understand every single player's strength and their weakness.

Every coach is different, every coach has different playing styles, but no coach made me have a negative experience playing.

When you're the head coach, you coach 53 people, and their wives and their girlfriends and their families and all those people.

When I was coach at Ajax, in the first half of the season, the players needed time to adapt to me, to know who I am as a person and as a coach.

I think it's very important to have contact with the players that I will coach.

Every coach has his own ideas about managing the team and how it plays.

As a player, I've always been interested in understanding the coaches' minds, in seeing how they made a group function.

You don't have to be popular with the players to be a good manager or coach.

We probably spend more time talking about individual players in our coaching sessions than anything else.

As a player, you can be more spontaneous and instinctive, but now as a coach I have to find a psychological balance within the team.

One of the things I like to do is let the players play and the coaches coach.

There are small things that every coach brings when they go to a new team. Like, you need to press this way or the other way.

At City, I didn't realise how much we had to do until we got there. Here, I didn't need to change the staff because there is quality already. So they certainly don't need me getting in the way in training by trying to show I can still play. No way.

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.

I went into coaching never worrying about what I was coaching for other than trying to make sure that I can prepare my team, select my team, have an amazing staff around me.

When I made the transition from player to coach, I evaluated myself and saw that I needed to improve my personality. I would fight with players - literally. I was 35, and you can't be like that; you have young players to guide. You have to transmit calm.

Every coach will have good and bad.

As a coach you need to choose the characteristics your players can contribute. I don't think it's a good thing for a coach to analyse his team by looking for something he sees in other teams. He has to pay close attention to the characteristics his team have, and make the most of those.

Every coach has his own philosophy.

People often talk about a coach's philosophy, but generally, I think managers look at the players they have and then decide on their style.

Louis van Gaal is a good coach. We have a lot of team meetings, and he analyses much - other teams, our own players at training, a lot. Everywhere he has been, he was successful.

People say you can't go out and eat with your players. I say why not.