Gerardo Martino Quotes

You need to protect the best players in the country. When there is so much cricket, we must work on ways to prolong their careers.

The amount of staff we have in academies is... I've never seen anything like it. It's good to take care of the players but sometimes I get confused by the number of people who have an impact on one kid - we're talking 100 people or more. It's quite a heavy load.

There are some agents who do a good job looking after players but there are others who stifle and mollycoddle them.

In international football you have 10 games a season, with players from different clubs. There's no time for proper coaching; they're just recovering from playing on the Saturday.

The team comes first. We want to keep all of our players. We want to take care of all of our players, but the team comes first.

You're moving a franchise. You're leaving one city and going to another, which is difficult from a fan standpoint, from a fan-base standpoint, but you have to take care of the detail things. As you go through that step-by-step process, from my standpoint, my job is to keep in mind the player needs.

Wenger is an immense manager and a great man. He takes care of his players, maybe too much. He's not a man of conflict.

I think to progress in major tournaments and to be at your best, you need a big squad, and you need to rotate it.

Everything was professional at United. They really take care of their players.

I always try to perform, and not because you have players on the bench or on the pitch that can play in your position.

I adapt my idea of football to my players, not adapt my players in my idea of football. It's important because there are others players that must play. The players are the most important things in football. I adapt my idea within my players.

Managers now don't just use 11 players; they have to care about all the squad of 25 or more players.

It is not a problem to sit on the bench: absolutely not. When you have three games in a week, and you don't play, though, you have to think about it.

It is possible to stop Messi. Teams do it when he plays for Argentina. But the Barcelona Messi is different.

Players want to play a lot of rugby. We're walking contradictions at times in that we want to play a lot of rugby, but we don't want to play too much rugby, and we want to be available for all the big games, yet there are times when you have to sacrifice that because of game limits.

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

We've got to do better at taking care of players and making sure the fans get the best of the players when they're showcasing their abilities.

If you lose a player who scores seven, eight, or nine goals, you have to find another one.

Bad performances can happen and are not that serious - even with new players. You can't, say, sell him, get a new one.

When you bring one of your top scorers, your top players off the bench, it really gives your team balance.

You should sub a player out when you see a player not going full-speed or playing selfish basketball.

Well, the fella I got on there is hitting pretty good and I know he can make that throw, and if he don't make it that other fella I got coming has shown me a lot, and if he can't I have my guy and I know what he can do. On the other hand, the guy's not around now. And, well, this guy may be able to do it against left-handers if my guy ain't strong enough. I know one of my guys is gonna do it.

That's a wise substitution by Terry Venables: three fresh man, three fresh legs.

I like Southgate as a manager, what he brings. He always wants the ball and adapts to the players.

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