I remember the first time I saw him play. It was for a Sporting CP youth team. I told my assistant, ‘There goes Van Basten’s son.’ Ronaldo had great technique. He stood out.
There is no pressure at the top. The pressure is being second or third.
Brendan’s chihuahua doesn’t do that. During the week it sleeps, eats and trains a little bit. So I have to say his chihuahua is a privileged one.
He’s a specialist in failure.
I want to congratulate again Mike Dean. I think his performance was unbelievable and I think when referees have unbelievable performances, I think it’s fair that as managers we give them praise. So fantastic performance.
It gave the title to Manchester City – it’s as simple as that.
I think it’s clearly the result of something that looks like a campaign.
It’s not important how we play. If you have a Ferrari and I have a small car, to beat you in a race I have to break your wheel or put sugar in your tank.
Fear is not a word in my football documentary.
If Roman Abramovich helped me out in training we would be bottom of the league and if I had to work in his world of big business, we would be bankrupt!
If I wanted to have an easy job, working with the big protection of what I have already done before, I would have stayed at Porto – beautiful blue chair, the Uefa Champions League trophy, God, and after God, me.
My history as a manager cannot be compared with Frank Rijkaard’s history. He has zero trophies and I have a lot of them.
I would rather play with 10 men than wait for a player who is late for the bus.
The only thing that we cannot control is our supporters.
Football is a game based on emotion and intelligence. Anyone can be clever, the trick is not to think the other guy is stupid.
When I was at Porto my team also played in the UEFA Cup final against a Scottish side – but it was Celtic. I’ve never seen such emotional people. It was unbelievable!
I don’t have to be jealous of Barcelona because they have 100 years of history and have won the European Cup once. I have only been managing for five years and I have the same amount of Champions League trophies to my name.
My family love living in London. It is a fantastic city and a city such as this deserves to host the Olympic Games.
I fell a bit in love with Celtic, because the atmosphere was amazing and the crowd was magnificent, the way they behaved with the Porto fans.
If you’re not a big club, you choose one competition and you fight in that competition and forget the others. Big clubs – we cannot do this.
For me pressure is bird flu. I’m serious. I’m feeling a lot of pressure with the problem in Scotland. It’s not fun and I’m more scared of it than football. Football is nothing compared with life. For me bird flu is the drama of the last few days. I’ll have to buy a mask.