Lothar Matthaus Quotes

We had a really good club at Everton who gave me the opportunity to do the job the way I felt it needed to be done.

I think the 20-year-old me from that time, if I could have been managed under Jurgen Klopp, I'd have benefitted.

Guardiola was a very special coach for me, the first when I was at Barcelona. He is a great coach, a lovely person, and I have very good memories of that time, but I would have liked to have had a full year with him.

Every player needs a little time to adjust to new teammates and the mentality of the coach when you change clubs.

I need to build my team around my weaknesses.

The Porto players were with me for two and a half years, they believed in me, in my methods, in the way we do it. The next day I go and a manager arrives who works completely differently.

Business requires understanding financial matters, but management is different from running the financial aspects of the business - it requires understanding complex systems, how they operate, the nature of organisations, what happens when people interact in groups and how to motivate and guide people.

I had long conversations with Wenger before I joined Real, and that's how I got to know about Arsenal and the way that they like to sign talented players who can move the ball well.

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

Change does not mean you will win with a new coach and achieve victories, but rather it causes instability in the team as the new coach needs some time for the players to adapt his new plans, which are always different than the previous coach.

Inzaghi is a complete European coach.

To be honest, I had a brilliant group of players at Hibs and the support were very fair with me. They didn't make it difficult.

Eddie Howe was the most tactical manager I have worked under.

Roy Hodgson is a very good manager with a clear plan.

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.

As a coach you're able to have better relationships with the players because you're not picking the team.

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.

Head coach is the leader. He's the guy that sets the tone for the whole organization as far as the structure of the football side of things.

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.

Real Madrid needs a coach that knows the club and understands the values that it represents.

Working under Pep Guardiola, a chance like that doesn't come along too often. That's no disrespect to Mauricio Pochettino, but the people that Pep has worked with grow as players.

I have never been at a club where the players talked so much about a previous manager as they did about Jose Mourinho at Inter Milan.

Every manager has his own idea of playing and his own idea of the training, and everyone has a different personality.

The execution of strategy is over to the captain and coach, as it always has been. It's the right way to go. We need clear role allocations, the coach and the captain go and execute and my job is to plan for the future.

At a massive club like Liverpool, people will come and go. It is our job to keep the wheels moving and momentum going.