League Position Quotes

I'll do everything I can to get West Ham as far up the table as I can.

When I arrived, Bayern were sitting at 14th place in the Bundesliga and weren't in the Champions League. Twelve years later, I left with 23 titles.

I didn't want to go to Chelsea, because I wanted to play the Champions League and they were sixth in the league.

Well Terry, can you tell us where you are in the league, how far are you ahead of the second team?

I agree with Arsene Wenger that finishing in the top four is the equivalent of winning a trophy - even if you don't get to parade silverware.

Any team that lets in 50 goals should never be in second position in the first place.

If Arsenal don't finish third, they might not finish in third place.

When I went to AC Milan, they were four points away from the relegation zone, and by the end of the season, we were just one goal away from being in the Europa League.

We do not want to be giving quality sides such as Southampton, Palace, Norwich and the rest eight or nine points start and expect to get back up with them.

It's my objective to make sure Schalke are successful again. It's a huge challenge for me to help the club to the Bundesliga title again after years without winning any titles.

The aim every season is to challenge for the top four and try to win a trophy.

City are playing for first place in the Premier League, and that is what I want.

When I took over at Everton, the challenge for us was to try to go toe-to-toe with a club having success in Europe and sometimes competing for the Premier League.

I do not want to play in an English club in mid-table.

When you manage a big team like River Plate or Madrid, they are used to winning titles. The people are happy, but they are used to it. When you have an achievement like I had in Villarreal, reaching the semi-final of the Champions League, finishing second in the league, it's more than winning a title. It's more.

It's true that Tottenham tempted me because it was a young team which was third in the league.

My main aim is to finish as high up the top of the Premier League as possible. I have the ability to help teams survive.

With Chelsea, the job was this: move up to the top, get into Europe. And I did that - fourth place in the Premier League and then into the Champions League, the season before Abramovich and all the money arrived.

For managers like me what is our dream? Is it what I did with Newcastle when we finished fifth? Or what Roy Hodgson did in taking Fulham to the Europa League final?

You can only go so far in the Premier League before you have to spend.

It is not so easy to turn yourself into one of the big clubs in the Premier League and also the Champions League.

It's the last question mark against me in my career. Why couldn't I keep a team in the Premier League.