Carlos Carvalhal Quotes

I do not decide who plays.

I can't be a manager, because I think it's too tough managing 30 players thinking in different ways.

If I was to become a manager, I would not want someone else to be signing the players for the team that my job depended on.

It's up to a manager to understand his players.

It's easier to change the manager than all the players. It's never easy to choose who should be in the dugout.

Of course, as manager, the selection of the team is very much one of the biggest responsibilities I personally take, but I come to that decision thanks to advice and support of the people around me.

The secret of successful managing is to keep the five guys who hate you away from the four guys who haven't made up their minds.

If the national coach lets decisions be made from outside, he's lost the team.

You have to build a team, but someone's got to lead, and someone's got to be unpopular at times.

It is important for the manager to find the right solution for your team.

I know that any group of people can become a team if they do the right things, but I came to realize over time that if you acquire or develop the right kind of people, that process of building a team is going to be much more effective and easier.

Open all the debates that you want, but I think that the players that I select, and in whom I have total confidence, deserve a minimum amount of respect.

In the dressing room, we know that Arsene Wenger is the boss.

The technical director's role is very important - not just on contracts, not just on signing players and seeing through the philosophy but also in taking a bit of weight off the manager.

A manager can never accept somebody at the top influencing his decisions about the team.

Obviously, as a manager, you decide the set-up of the team, who's playing, but when it comes to doing the things I want, I have principles, but I also want to leave it open for the players to find their own solutions. At the end of the day, it's also about the individual.

I have really enjoyed the responsibility of leading the team and making the decisions out there.

The coach can only choose 11 players to start. It is a difficult decision.

Whatever player Arsene picks to play for Arsenal, I respect that and so should the fans.

At the end of the day, Coach Belichick does a great job of bringing in people he knows that will fit well.

When you're a player, you only really have to look after yourself. And then you go into management, and you've got 30 players' welfare to keep an eye on.

If I'm going to coach the players, I want some say on who they're going to be.

Perhaps the toughest call for a coach is weighing what is best for an individual against what is best for the team. Keeping a player on the roster just because I liked him personally, or even because of his great contributions to the team in the past, when I felt some one else could do more for the team would be a disservice to the team's goals.

When I hear a company is being run by a team, my heart sinks, because you need to have that leader with a vision and heart that can move things forward.

Of course, Steven Gerrard is one of only a few Liverpool players who never get left out by Rafa; and even he doesn't always get picked.