Philipp Lahm Quotes

The old adage that you shouldn't change a winning team doesn't apply in modern international football because managers have to study the opposition and pick players who exploit their weaknesses.

Pep is a super coach! He is excellent. He is the best at analysing an opponent and the concept of a game. I don't know what impact he had on German football, but he left a mark on all of us at Bayern because of how he analysed and educated the players in each position and the way he taught us to play.

You can learn a lot from Pep Guardiola. From pre-season to the match itself. He has a vision of the game that is impressive.

What football means to an Italian coach is tactics, trying to control the game by following the ideas and systems of the manager.

I know Roy Hodgson very well; he rarely changes tactically.

I like to study everything: the way to be dangerous when you are attacking; what the players should do when you don't have the ball; where they should be. The tactics you tell the players to follow come from all this study.

Pep and his staff work very hard, not just on the training pitch but also with the analysis of opponents, and now, of course, we understand more how he wants to play.

At the beginning of the week, when we do our game planning, we look at the opponent and all the unique things they do.

What I liked of Mourinho is his work ethic and the way he organizes his team against the opponent. He knows the strength and weakness of the opponent, and he will give the details for what he wants. And for me, that was impressive.

Guardiola focuses only on the tactics.

Sarri is meticulous, passionate about tactics, he likes to make the team play well.

People get the impression that we approach football without method: that we're a bunch of skilled individualists. This just isn't so. I'm all for individuality. But I personally go through every tactical plan before every match.

Football tactics are rapidly becoming as complicated as the chemical formula for splitting the atom.

Every opposition needs to be played in a different way and the formation depends on the opposition's strengths.

We practically only practiced fitness under Klinsmann, there was very little technical instruction and the players themselves discussed the way they would play a game before the match.

In Italy, the coaches are very attentive to the details. They really study things, and that is a big difference here. They look at your movement, your positioning. They study you and work out how to stop you.

I prefer playing in a 4-3-3.

When you play Argentina and Messi, there are several ways to limit his impact, at least.

You have to do a lot of planning, certainly in football. We watch the opposition three or four times before we play them.

Pochettino is a terrific manager if you look at the way his teams play.

When we talk about Arsene Wenger, I like the fact that he focuses 80 percent about the style of play he wants for his team and not taking so much consideration into the other team.

The tactical way of Pep is the most incredible I have ever seen. When he was at Barcelona, that was their best team, I think.

I believe the term 'head coach' has been misunderstood, though not by Slavisa nor nearly every one of the other candidates we interviewed. Slavisa avidly embraces the concept of head coach, which is to be on the pitch, training, organising, planning, and everything that comes in preparing for and leading the Club on match day.

I learned a lot from Arsene Wenger, especially his tactical systems and how to plan things game to game, week to week and month to month.

Try to put our guys in different positions, try some different combinations, et cetera, to prepare us for the playoffs, which is what matters.