Jamie Carragher Quotes

The biggest problem is when a player asks a captain why he is not playing but does not want an honest answer.

Each transfer brings a change to the dressing room that I must protect - that is my job.

Football is made up of all kinds of conflict. In a dressing room, between players, between us and the manager, between us and loads of people who don't seem to matter. It's constant and harsh sometimes.

I don't see my season with Dortmund negatively. There were some real problems there in the dressing room and they were going through a generation change.

Andre Villas-Boas wasn't the ideal coach for me. He bought Gylfi Sigurdsson and then told me he would be his new No.10.

It's the nature of basketball sometimes: every player and coach are going to have run-ins.

Managing can be more discouraging than playing, especially when you're losing because when you're a player, there are at least individual goals you can shoot for. When you're a manager all the worries of the team become your worries.

Something goes wrong, I yell at them -'Fix it'- whether it's their fault or not. You can only really yell at the players you trust.

Each director maintains a different personality. Either you get along, or you don't.

If you have 130 people on set, all with different opinions, sometimes it's going to kick off. There might be some people who say I'm a big problem to work with - that you couldn't tell me anything - but hopefully, they don't.

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

You want a coach who is going to push you and be strong and be in your corner when it's tough, but sometimes you have coaches who think they are more important than the players. That's where the conflicts come.

When you bring Van Gaal in the house, you bring in quality. But you also bring in someone who thinks he knows everything. And that will cause clashes.

Sometimes I had bad behaviour with managers that I loved at Sampdoria, like Vujadin Boskov and Sven-Goran Eriksson. I understand that this can happen during the game or when you are substituted.

Playing for Chelsea I have to be more ruthless than in the German team, where I have managed to earn myself a different status over the years.

When you're the head coach, you coach 53 people, and their wives and their girlfriends and their families and all those people.

Everyone has his own form, and I never had any problems with Mourinho.

I've heard stories about keepers who couldn't stand each other. Everyone in football has a big ego and we all think we should play. But it is not up to me that I or the other goalie is not playing.

You have to choose the right club with the right people. That can have an impact when things aren't going the right way - especially when you lose 7-0!

I'd be lying if I said I never had any issues with players but at some point you have to stamp your authority because if you're good at taking free-kicks, for example, they should let you take them.

Football management is about managing people.

Allegri is very good at managing the locker room in the most difficult moments of a season, to make the team understand how to manage the time of a match.

I think Mourinho did not have enough respect for us.

Van Gaal is a teacher, pays attention to everything you do, but Hiddink is more linked to the players. He gives more freedom than Van Gaal, but I worked with both of them pretty well.

Sunderland, West Ham and Orlando City wanted me but Villa wouldn't sell me, saying I was too vital in the dressing room.