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

I went a week to see Mourinho at training, and another week with Guardiola. I learned from the two, I took important things from both.

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

Beyond studying, though, I think a coach should mainly have knowledge of football: if you do not know what to say to the players then you are not going anywhere.

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

Frank de Boer definitely showed in the Netherlands that he's a good coach.

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

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

I respect Bielsa a lot. For me, he is a special coach. I think the best coaches in the world work in different things, and a lot of coaches, we cannot train like Bielsa. It's difficult to train like Bielsa. But every coach can learn from different coaches. But with Bielsa, I think all coaches learn something from him.

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.

My passion is coaching, and I see myself more as a head coach with a more continental approach, in charge of football, running the training programme, the players.

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.

Halas didn't believe in starting rookies.

One of the reasons I chose Tottenham is the way Pochettino thinks and how he plays. I really like that.

I already worked with Van Gaal before at the Under-20 team back in 2001. He hasn't changed much as a coach since. He really stands out.

From my youth team all the way through, I was encouraged to play that way by Keith Hill when I was at Barnsley, and then Roberto Martinez at Everton, through to Gareth Southgate when he was in charge of the England Under-21s.

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.

Arsene Wenger is a good coach. He has authority, and straight away, I can see he helps players with small things to make them better.

I'm very fortunate to have worked at two unbelievable clubs, Manchester City and Barcelona, and I feel like I've really changed the way I look at football from being around and in those environments, so I feel really privileged.

Under Pep Guardiola, it's hard work. For me, Guardiola is one of the best coaches I've ever met. He's incredibly clever and tactically really good, and he knows how to speak to us, how to motivate us, and that's what it is like.

I learned a lot from Arsene Wenger, especially his tactical systems and how to plan things game to game, week to week and month to month.

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

I had a brilliant relationship with Thomas Tuchel. We spoke a lot, not only on the surface, but really deep about football and our work.