MICHAEL LAUDRUP

If I have a keeper who makes a mistake in consecutive games and is dropped, when he plays again, there is pressure on him because that is the level of the game we are at.

I've never said I didn't want to manage a big team. I've never had that dream - that's different.

Regarding my coaching philosophy, I think it is important to adapt to the team/players and the culture in the country where you are coaching, but to keep possession is a key issue wherever you are.

Yes, in 1983, I had the opportunity to sign for Liverpool.

It's always difficult to play the big teams, but I would rather play them at the start of the season.

When things aren't going well, it's very easy to blame the coaching staff.

When you're struggling, especially mentally, it's only the team who can bring you out of that situation. It's not one or two players.

Robben is more of a one-on-one individualist. He's a player who can decide a game.

Playing on a Thursday and then a Sunday is not a problem.

I played at the highest level for 17 years and won so many titles.

Money is not all in life, and not in football, but it's quite important, and to have the lowest budget in the league means to finish in the top 10 may be an even bigger result.

I was a big talent.

A small squad means everyone feels part of it and integrated.

The biggest clubs in Europe, whether they be Barcelona, Madrid, Manchester United, or Chelsea, always want to win, whatever they are participating in.

We all know when you have a huge price tag on your shoulders, there's always a lot more pressure on you, a lot more expectation.

I do not like to use a player solely to make a member of the opposing team, for one simple reason: when we cannot retrieve the ball, we are forced to defend with ten men, giving the opponents an advantage.

To play for almost two months without your manager is not easy.

At Brondby, we had Daniel Agger, who came up from the youth. He had two years in the team, and then we sold him to Liverpool for nearly £7 million, which is a lot of money in Denmark. As a manager, that gives you even greater satisfaction that winning something as a player.

That is one of the problems big teams face - their rivals always take the field very motivated, and I say this from experience.

If you are always talking about the past, then you don't really have much in the present.

We can all have a bad day. It happens for me as well.

I would rather have a job where I can look up in the table, not downwards.

The Copa del Rey is a two-legged match, but it is an important game like every other.

I believe in treating players like adults - though if some of them behave like children, you have to treat them as such! - and I think there is big respect the other way from players to the manager.

When people are booing at the stadium when they win, then it has nothing to do with the results. It is something to do with emotion and feelings, which is an important part of football. The relationship there has nothing to do with results.