Ronald Koeman Quotes

Anyway, how can you sack anyone who still hasn't got a contract. I'll be there for the game and I'll stand behind the dugout giving instructions to the players from there. They will respond to me more than the next manager.

When you bring Van Gaal in the house, you bring in quality. But you also bring in someone who thinks he knows everything. And that will cause clashes.

Players want a manager you feel in your gut you want to play for - they can have the best tactics and philosophy in the world but if you have lost a player in his heart or head, you have lost him in every other department.

No two managers are the same and I believe how players are man-managed on a daily basis has a huge influence on their performance on the field.

Arsene knows what he wants and knows how to get the best out of you - that is why he gets such an impressive response from his players.

I think the 20-year-old me from that time, if I could have been managed under Jurgen Klopp, I'd have benefitted.

The fans just see what's going on on the field, but there's a lot more that goes into it behind the scenes.

Modern football is increasingly dominated by the coaches - their narcissism to put themselves above the team and their players.

It's easier to change the manager than all the players. It's never easy to choose who should be in the dugout.

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

Players' moods change on a daily basis, so it depends how you find your players, and up to you to get the best out of them.

I let ballplayers yell back at me because I wasn't trying to prove I'm boss. I know I'm boss.

You need young, hungry, developing players in your team, but you also need that experience to level things out and get hold of some of the youngsters when they need advice in certain areas of the pitch.

A lot of these teams really forget that part of success comes with having veteran leadership. You see a lot of teams forget that and start letting go of these old veterans. They don't realize how important it is to have a veteran voice in your locker room or on the bench. It's important to have guys who have been there before.

When you're a player, you only really have to look after yourself. And then you go into management, and you've got 30 players' welfare to keep an eye on.

The players on the team are the reason why we win. You don't have to treat them all identically; they're not going to be all the same. Your ability to lead and motivate those guys differently is important.

There was one time when we were getting beat at Highbury, and our assistant manager Pat Rice came in shouting. Arsene, in front of all of us, just went 'Pat! Sit down and be quiet!'

People talk about the hair dryer and all this with Sir Alex Ferguson. What was really great about him, whatever happened in a game, he would spend whatever minutes it took him to get this out of this system and say whatever needed to be said. Once he said, 'Get your bath,' that was it. We knew that it would never return.

After a certain point I know my players so well, I can anticipate their reactions.

To look at the players, to communicate with the players, to observe and to analyze - that's my job.

Even the greatest players accept coaching and value the need for discipline and the order that it brings to the team

He of whom many are afraid ought himself to fear many.

It's not what you tell your players that counts. It's what they hear.

Any time you have coaching changes and things like that, you go and study everything.

The way you treat your employees is the way they will treat your customers