Lothar Matthaus Quotes

Guardiola focuses only on the tactics.

Guardiola has helped me so when I receive the ball, I have space.

The way Guardiola plays suits me. It enables me to get into space in attacking positions.

Manager Kit Symons sees our players daily. As a top-flight player not that long ago, Kit knows and feels the game.

Mr Conte is important as a coach that is able to really implement a game plan.

I think Jurgen Klopp is doing a great job at Liveprool. The style of play is the opposite of Guardiola.

At Chelsea, there's more focus on team shape, a lot of work on tactics.

Guardiola and I have the same idea of football.

Klopp is a great tactician and a great coach.

My style of play has always been 'Guardiola style,' so I've not had too many problems. At the same time, he helps you to evolve and to change little things, because it's obviously not exactly the same style of play as at Bilbao.

It's great to have atmosphere at the stadium, but football is all about the players.

I love talking football, and I love being around it.

There are few secrets in football. So execute.

Sometimes I miss coaching, but often things are not how they appear in football.

I don't know much about football but everyone seems to say that it is all about possession.

You can't rely on your defence to win a World Cup.

Football isn't nuclear physics, but it's not so simple that you can make it simple. It takes some explaining to get it across.

If I had to pick my greatest strength as a football coach, I say it would be innovation.

You can't win unless you have good people with great attitude. They are the ones who won the games. I didn't win any games. You never saw a coach make a tackle anywhere. My philosophy was to get the best players and then try to do something new with them.

Strikers can't score every week, much as they would like to.

Barcelona have a unique approach to the game based on specific types of footballers playing together as one.

At City I went back there on the basis of playing for manager Mark Hughes.

Football always changes. There are always new players coming in at your club or young players coming through with your club or England. You have to be ready, given 100%, improve, and get better.

At Barcelona, it wasn't about winning all the time; it was first about how to win.

In club football, Jurgen very much does everything, and we follow. We listen, and we follow him.