Club Dynamics Quotes

You cannot expect to be on intimate terms with everybody on your club, and there is no reason why you should be, so long as you are playing the game.

Thinking back to how it fell apart for Mourinho at Chelsea, I do have some sympathy for him. At most clubs it is the manager who determines the long-term stability of the players but at Chelsea it seems very much the other way round.

At times you are going to miss people. When that happens, others have to come to the front and show the calibre that brought them to the club in the first place.

You cannot control the market, you cannot control the players, you cannot control the clubs. You can try - but we have done our best.

I don't understand what's going on behind the scenes fully, but Chelsea's a massive club, and I understand why chances don't come so often.

It's important to get to know people, to get an idea of the culture of a club, and to understand how it works.

It's bad when there are internal problems at the club - when people have doubts about you internally.

Sequels are very rarely a good idea, and in any case, the success of the book changed my relationship with the club in some ways.

Coaches are important, but the senior players at a club are crucial.

It's normal in a top club that people change.

The only true opponent of PSG is PSG.

It's nice when you join another club that you know a couple of players.

I've been around clubhouses a long time, I know how to maneuver around the clubhouse.

It is really difficult, after Jose Mourinho, to work at Chelsea. It could cause a problem for any manager because Mourinho had such a relationship with the players and the fans.

After more than 30 years in the dugout I have come to realise there is a need at many clubs for someone who can act as a link between managers and owners.

I've seen 18 managers go at the clubs I've been playing for. It's a part of football, isn't it?

My first thing with every club I have worked in is to get a personal relationship with the players and then build a professional one.

During my career I've come back to clubs after the summer break to see one of my team-mates not really at it because he's been denied a move to a bigger club for whatever reason, and you can see in his body language that he doesn't want to be there and that kind of thing is massively disruptive and negative.

I think some of the English players at Chelsea run the club, pretty much.

The reasons why a player is better on one club than on another are many. I certainly am not an expert and can't explain.

At a massive club like Liverpool, people will come and go. It is our job to keep the wheels moving and momentum going.

In every club, sometimes players leave. It is not easy, but this is football.

Sober strip clubs are horrible. When you are sober you see the matrix code behind a strip club. You're paying girls to pretend to like you until you run out of money so they can walk away.