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" I hate to speak about individuals. Players don't win you trophies, teams win trophies, squads win trophies. "

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" So if one day the result becomes 3-3, for me it doesn't change my mind, because it's football, it's normal. What is not normal is that we haven't been scoring enough goals playing such good football as we've been playing in the last few weeks. "

" I have always felt an affinity with Old Trafford; it has hosted some important memories for me in my career, and I have always enjoyed a rapport with the United fans. "

" Unhappy is a nice word. "

" I was nine or 10 years old and my father was sacked on Christmas Day. He was a manager, the results had not been good, he lost a game on December 22 or 23. On Christmas Day, the telephone rang and he was sacked in the middle of our lunch. "

" I remember playing at Old Trafford, and the way to the dugout was always nice. It was never like in other stadiums. "

" Sometimes you see beautiful people with no brains. Sometimes you have ugly people who are intelligent, like scientists. "

" I don't say we are a defensive team. I say we are a strong team in defensive terms, but at the same time lacking sufficient fluidity in attack because that will take time to come. "

" Football is a game about feelings and intelligence. "

" When my kids were young, we could move and experience different countries and, in my case, different clubs and different football, but there is a moment when they need some stability. "

" The moral of the story is not to listen to those who tell you not to play the violin but stick to the tambourine. "

" Look at the way teams play against Arsenal. They don't believe they can win. They don't believe. "

" The only thing I would like is to have more control of the game in terms of possession. "

" And I think because of the passion of every English player and every English supporter, and every English journalist for the game, most of the game is played with passion, love for football and instinct, but in football you also have to think. "

" When I go to the press conference before the game, in my mind the game has already started. "

" Facing the press is not easy, but because you have to go, you have to try to take a lot of positive things for yourself from these face-to-face meetings. "

" Money does not guarantee success. "

" Everybody can be smart. "

" The period before the game can be important to influence opinions, characters, personalities, feelings, and, of course, I use that to touch my players, to touch opponents, to touch supporters. "

" In five years I have never had a match where my team has had less possession than the opponents. "

" But I think it's more normal for my team to have no success than it is to win two consecutive European cups. "

" You have to win and especially, as I have, you have to win a trophy for the first time. "

" I give a lot of instruction in training. It's difficult for me to do the same in matches, so I need guys on the pitch to read the game, to understand what we want. "

" I followed an Italian manager and it cannot be easy when you follow a manager who thinks very differently. "

" When I face the media, maybe I don't feel it now, here with you, because it's a different sort of interview, but when I face the media before or after the game, I feel it as part of the game. "

" In the same way that I had to follow an Italian manager here, I can imagine that it was not easy for an Italian manager to follow me at Porto. "

" You see how Spanish, Italians, Portuguese play football. I don't say they are perfect, I say English football has a few things to learn from them in the same way they have a lot of things to learn from English football. "

" I feel I have a lot to learn from English football and I am completely open to good influences in my way of thinking football. But I also have things to give them. "

" 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. "

" I think the best place to work in football is England. "

" Football is a more beautiful game in high definition. "