If someone thinks, 'I'll spend the off season working on my fitness and I'll come back a better cricketer,' I don't think that's enough. You need to spend a lot of time working on your skills and honing your skills.
I am the coach, all I do is train the players who are put at my disposal.
Success in football is impossible without a good school.
In the modern game, players need to train harder than they did in my day.
You build a player like you build a house. You start with the foundations. The fundamentals.
We draft mostly high school kids and we have one of the finest, if not the finest, player development programs and coaching staffs and we teach our players the right way to play. We also have a game plan in scouting, and there are certain types of players that we look for.
He moulded me as a player by teaching me the basics, the fundamentals of football, and definitely made me the player I was until I stopped playing. That is what Van Gaal does.
The Barcelona youth program is one of the best in the world. As a kid, they teach you not to play to win, but to grow in ability as a player.
In training, the players would deliberately hit high balls into me and barge into me so I'd get used to that side of the English game. I actually enjoy the physical side of it now.
He doesn't necessarily have to learn the sky hook. He just has to learn how to be an effective post player. I think I can help him do that.
One is my club, I want to develop those players, and I want to be in the beginning at least, until I have everything ready, I want to spend as much time to develop those kids as possible.
It is nice to pick a squad or train players for 30 minutes, but I do not like the life of a coach.
During practice sessions I try and bring every inch of my experience to show the players what to expect, what can happen, what to avoid so that the team can focus on what they have learnt during training sessions.
If you want a player to serve and volley more, you need to teach them to do that more, how to move at the net.
In Germany, young players are given more time, more patience. In England, they prefer to buy already-high-level players rather than spending some time building up a really talented young guy.
First, as an owner of the club, you must choose a style of football. After that, you must find the managers that will work with the young players in your team in that style. After that, you must put a manager in the squad with the same mentality.
Teams want the best players. If the best players come through your academy, you can play.
I come here to be coach of Manchester City and train these players. That's the reason I am here.
Ultimately, if we can develop enough players, the balance of foreign players isn't great, but that's because we're not producing enough players.
