Ruben Neves Quotes

I know it will take a little time to adapt to a different team and a different league.

I suppose I should have realised that the very fact I was still playing for United at 38 years old was a sign that there was not enough pressure on us senior players from those coming into the side.

You've got to coach with what you have and who's available.

That is what it is like with Pep. At first, you don't understand. But then you grow up, you work, and now we understand the things he wants much better. It's not like the first season when it took him more time to make us understand his ideas. Some players didn't understand immediately what he wanted.

It's not easy when you have a new manager because you have to try and adapt yourself to him, the team, training sessions, and the game.

All the managers in the world, it doesn't matter how good you are, if your players don't understand what you are looking for or what you want, it makes no sense.

Every player settles into a new league in different ways.

You always need time to adapt to a new manager. But in football if you don't get a result, you are under pressure.

I was just taught, the team goes how the point guard goes.

Pep has made me understand the game more: not just how I play but also how the team has to play, because I am just a component.

I have been doing this for a long, and it is the players who learn who you need to work with. You have to coach them to think and understand the game. If they cannot, then you have to tell them, 'You have to do this anyway,' but the best thing to do is say, 'Listen, if he is doing this, then maybe you have to do that.'

Of course you learn a lot as a player when you pay attention to managers when they speak to you.

People seem to expect when that happens, for players to be brought in that are so much better than the ones that have left. In the end they might be better but in the beginning they might be worse. Because they all have to gel and get to know each other and get to know you.

Felix Magath works with pressure. At first, we didn't know where we stood with him. That prompted the players to give their best because they wanted to play, but after a while the players knew where they stood and Magath no longer received the same effect.

The coach is the first person who is under pressure but when a new manager comes you should give him time.

The second season is always easier than the first one. When you change, it's always more difficult. You have to adapt to the way your team plays; you have to adapt to your team-mates, to the league, to the referees.

I think Mark Hughes is the type of manager people want to play for.

The decisions you make are based on what you think is better for the team and the player.

When I was a player, I was always interested in management.

Everyone has to understand what the role is - what the role of the player is, the role of the coach is. You're hired to do something. You're paid to do something.

When you have an older group of players, they play on automatic pilot a lot of the time, but with youngsters, you have more intuition.

I think all managers have to be so demanding.

A coach needs time to get to know the players, the environment, the fans and the culture of the club. You can't solve everything in one or two months.

It is a pleasure to play under Jose Mourinho, and everything is OK. I learn every day. He is a normal coach. He speaks a lot with the players. I like it when the manager speaks a lot with you because it gives you confidence.

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