Thomas Muller Quotes

You can learn a lot from Pep Guardiola. From pre-season to the match itself. He has a vision of the game that is impressive.

I would say Pep Guardiola's No. 1 quality is that he sees the technical and tactical aspect of a game really fast.

I was struck by the ideas of Sarri, when you see them from outside you get a certain idea but when you are inside you understand the intelligence of a coach who has brought new ideas.

Sarri is meticulous, passionate about tactics, he likes to make the team play well.

When you're a kid you just think about where you are going to be to put yourself in a position for the next scoring chance. But as you develop, you start to do things that may not catch the eye of the normal football watcher, the dropping back, the closing down.

When you just work tactically, in pure football sessions, you can see the way they can think football.

Van Gaal has a good vision of football, but it is not mine. He wants to gel winning teams and has a militaristic way of working with his tactics. I want individuals to think for themselves.

The art of coaching is to give a player freedom to bring out his talent. It is the player's responsibility for what happens once they are on the pitch.

Pep and his staff work very hard, not just on the training pitch but also with the analysis of opponents, and now, of course, we understand more how he wants to play.

When I arrived at Bayern he asked me: 'How are you? Are you ready to learn how to play football?' Before, I thought the coach's job was just to set up the team. However, with Guardiola it's something different. He is addicted to football and because of that he is a phenomenon.

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

Someone said that my coaching is a combination of Milan's defensive discipline and the Dutch propensity for attacking football, and I think that is a fair description.

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

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

Van Gaal does a good job wherever he is.

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.

Sarri taught me football. He is a coach I really like, well-prepared and even scientific in the way he analyses games.

The impact of Luis Enrique has been very positive. He has very clear ideas about football and we've absorbed them.

Each coach you have gives a little something to every player, but the one who changed my game the most was Mancini. He taught me to play more outside the area, dropping me back a bit.

What I like about Pochettino is the way that he looks in control. He is in control of his players, in control of the way that they play.

You can never stop learning in football and I'm always trying to take little things on board that other players do.

Alex Ferguson, Mourinho, Pep you can always see the vision.

I've been playing football for a while, but Guardiola really made me a better player. I was 29 when I started working with him, so I wasn't very young, but if you see the steps I made thanks to him, it shows you what he is capable of doing. Guardiola didn't just put me on the flanks but in other positions as well.

You have to have something in your head to understand the Barcelona play. You have to adapt as quickly as possible.

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