Managerial Change Quotes

It's not hard at all to make the switch from United to Oranje. For a manager, it's totally different than for a player.

Del Bosque was axed by Madrid for failing to retain the Champions League in 2003 but his sacking triggered the start of a spell when they won nothing for four years and failed to get beyond the Champions League's last 16.

For a big club, you can accept that the team does not win the league because it is in transition, but you cannot afford to slip out of the Champions League spot.

When I was at Madrid, I knew even by the December of that season that I would be sacked, and if they hadn't dismissed me, I would have resigned.

Going from Flip to Kev, obviously you don't want to see someone ever lose their job. For me it's probably a little more difficult, because other than Bill Blair, Flip is all I knew.

Teams buy players and change managers if they feel they need change at the club.

Obviously, replacing Sir Alex Ferguson was never going to be easy - not for him or for anyone. Although I was with him for only a few months, I'll always be grateful, as he played a key role in my move to United. He was the one who called me, who welcomed me, and the one who gave me the confidence to come here.

Clubs don't change managers unless there is something wrong.

When I came to PSV, I signed when Eric Gerets was coach there.

The Porto players were with me for two and a half years, they believed in me, in my methods, in the way we do it. The next day I go and a manager arrives who works completely differently.

Arsenal are a great club, but after eight years, sometimes you feel that you need a new challenge.

I did not transfer from United to City for the controversy.

Obviously when a new manager comes in, he's got to instill his own ideas within the team and with his set-up for the games.

Do I feel I should have been given more time? Of course I do. To go to a club like Manchester United and follow someone like Sir Alex after the time he had been there, to stay for ten months... It couldn't be a revolution at Manchester United; it had to be evolution. It had to take time.

There was a big possibility that I would have had to leave Newcastle had Ruud Gullit stayed as manager.

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

I had to follow Bobby Robson at Barcelona. He had won three titles.

I've experienced it a few times at club level, when a manager goes. It doesn't become any easier, but it's part and parcel.

I don't like to see any coach get sacked - not Lopetegui, not the Huesca coach, not the Granada coach, and, of course, not the Barca coach.

Managers come and go, and first-team coaches and players can leave suddenly.

I still have the newspapers of my first match at Barcelona. It was a disaster. We lost 2-0 and everybody was questioning my arrival.

It was very difficult to succeed Bert van Marwijk because, two years before, he was second in the World Cup, and then he left a broken-up team behind - so that was much more difficult than you think.

If we should have any regrets as Manchester United, that is that we only gave David Moyes seven months. I think we should have given him more time, accepted that results weren't going to be the way we hoped they would be and that playing would be a little bit different. I believe he would have grown into that role.

Newcastle was tough - the manager who'd signed me, Bobby Robson, got sacked three games into the season, so a new manager arrived, and I ended up going on loan again, to Aston Villa.