Roberto Carlos Quotes

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.

I've played under Alan Pardew, Gianfranco Zola, Avram Grant, Sam Allardyce, Alan Curbishley and Slaven's made me captain.

With Luis Enrique, I never expected he would become a coach. He was an intuition player; he didn't speak with me about tactics.

Bielsa certainly had his own methods. He brought in laptops and showed us videos of where to be on the pitch in terms of position. They were strange little things, but that's why we learnt a lot under him.

I have always been the same player, but Conte knows how to treat players, having played at the highest level himself.

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.

To get the best out of any player you need to play him in his best position, it's as simple as that.

I first came up under Joe Royle and when Keegan took over it was even better for me because I felt his style added more to my game.

Who does not want to coach Barcelona?

Inzaghi is a complete European coach.

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

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

Van Gaal is the kind of guy who can really make individual players better.

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.

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.

To me, I have always been a Rick Adelman fan. I felt like if I had been in his systems, I probably would have been a better player than I was because if you look at his system, it was ideal for me.

If you are not performing consistently at a club like Arsenal, then there are other players ready to take the opportunity - which I learned the tough way.

I've always wanted to work with De Zerbi, and I think he is a genius in his vision of football.

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.

Dave Bassett was a key influence on me, the way he treated and talked to people. Wimbledon and Sheffield United were quite direct sides and he got the best out of what he had, but he was an innovator.

Rafael Benitez is the best coach I have had. I don't know if I'd have joined Napoli without him being there.

When you a buy a player like Ozil, you know his strengths and Arsene Wenger knows, I think, where he is at his best.

Louis Van Gaal is a great coach. He has inspired a lot of players to give their best, shown them how to play.

You get different philosophies in coaching, usually depending on what position the coach himself played.

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