Ronald Koeman Quotes

It's very likely that I will finish my career as Swiss national coach.

I have a profound respect for Juan Carlos Osorio. I think he did an amazing job with the Mexican national team.

My goal one day is to be Brazil coach, but to get there I need to have a club career. I started well in Turkey. I started well in Russia and I did a good job in India.

Tite is doing a great job for the Brazilian national team.

I would like to think that if I stop playing in three, four, five years time, whatever it may be, that I would still be involved in football and still have that as my profession. It is my passion and what I know.

I've done my coaching badges, I've got my Pro Licence, but I enjoy what I'm doing now. I'm also the elite performance director of the Welsh FA. The main thing for me was always Liverpool Football Club and my country, Wales - and I'm lucky enough to still be involved with both of them.

Jim Harbaugh has done a great job of coaching in the NFL no matter how you put it.

I am enjoying my time as Barnet coach, but I think I could do it in Serie A.

I dream of being managed by Arsene Wenger.

I can look forward to that. Getting back over to Europe and playing at a little bit higher level, then hopefully becoming a leader for the national team.

In Holland we have always viewed Villa as an important club with a tradition of being powerful in Europe when I was younger, so I would be very interested in managing them if the job was offered to me.

I never got to train with the likes of Wesley Sneijder and Rafael van der Vaart, but I am from the club where they were. I am not Dutch, but I am from a club where they both played with the same style. They've had really big success when they left Ajax, so I hope I can achieve the same.

A coach I admire? Jurgen Klopp. No doubt.

Guardiola, Zidane, who's doing a great work, Tite, also doing a great job in the national team, Simeone. These are managers I would like to work with some day.

I always had much respect for Rudi Voller.

I think that the Bayern coach is the second hardest job in Germany after the Chancellor.

I have no ambition to become Germany coach.

I'll admit I was curious about coaching a national team, but my experience with Greece was sufficient.

I know how hard it will be to follow the best manager ever, but the opportunity to manage Manchester United isn't something that comes around very often and I'm really looking forward to taking up the post next season.

Louis van Gaal is one of the most successful managers in the world.

I'm not a one-hit wonder. When you look at my background, I think I've been successful at all stops along the way. I know the kind of responsibility it takes to be a head football coach.

If you ask a million players who they would want as manager, they will come back with a top three list of Mourinho, Pep Guardiola, or Diego Simeone.

I've played for England Under-21s, in the Under-20 World Cup and I've been part of the play-offs in the Championship. But in terms of helping my career and getting me ready, going to Cheltenham Town was a massive experience.

I'm not sure about English football to be honest with you. There's a lot of politics down there and I'm not sure it's just about your attributes on the park. If it was I'd still be down there.

Sure it's a dream to coach Napoli as well as the national team.