Alan Hansen Quotes

The coach is the one who eventually decides who makes the starting XI.

It's not science; it's common sense: it's playing the right players in the right positions for the style of football you want to implement in a specific game.

You can play Dybala and Ronaldo; it just depends on the situations.

I only ever call up the best players, or at least the players who are the most suited to the way I wish to play.

We probably spend more time talking about individual players in our coaching sessions than anything else.

There are small things that every coach brings when they go to a new team. Like, you need to press this way or the other way.

We have to understand the abilities of the players. We will try to build a game model with our ideas and with the players we have.

We cannot try to play in a manner that does not correspond to our players' characteristics.

I used to have a log on every corner in the league, what their strengths and weaknesses are.

When you have your roster set up different ways, you really just have to examine the roster, find out what their strengths and weakness are and hopefully you take your roster and the vision you want to implement of how you want to play and you can tweak your roster to create that.

You buy the right players for the system that you believe will be successful.

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

I'm changing lineups obviously to give everybody their best opportunity to show what they can do. Just giving everybody their fair chance to assess that properly.

I'm a forward, but I can't be the only forward at a club. Over the years, the clubs who've won titles have had several strikers.

The head coach is the chemist.

Ally MacLeod thinks that tactics are a new kind of mint.

The old adage that you shouldn't change a winning team doesn't apply in modern international football because managers have to study the opposition and pick players who exploit their weaknesses.

If Jurgen Klinsmann thinks that the best way for his team to be successful is if his young players go to Europe, there is nobody in the world who can argue with that. That is his opinion, whether you agree with it or not.

As a football team, we don't have any backups. We don't consider anybody a backup.

Whenever you name a team and whenever you pick a squad, that is when you have to make the most difficult calls. To tell a player, 'I'm not selecting you, and these are the reasons why...' it's tough.

When it comes down to it, it's about putting the players on the field that will be the best 11.

If I was to play on the left, I'd rather play there if there was three in midfield.

It is very difficult when I have to choose a first 11 because I understand the feelings that players gave when players are on the bench; it is very difficult.

I think people get hung up on starters and 11s, and that number kind of rings through a lot of media's heads.

To say we have to play a certain way, or try to, every game is great in theory, but depending what players you have got you have to play to their strengths and cover up their weaknesses.