Mats Hummels Quotes

Your dream, when you buy a sports franchise, is to win the championship, the Super Bowl.

Eddie Howe was the most tactical manager I have worked under.

Van Gaal is the kind of guy who can really make individual players better.

I'd been at Everton for more than 11 years. We'd qualified for the Champions League, got to an FA Cup final. I'd been voted manager of the season three times.

Van Gaal does a good job wherever he is.

Claudio Ranieri knows the Premier League very well and he knows how to win games.

I don't think a manager should be judged by whether he wins the pennant, but by whether he gets the most out of the twenty-five men he's been given.

Liverpool had a lot of success under Rafa Benitez, and that is difficult for anyone to follow.

When you don't have the deepest pockets, you better have the best scouting and development.

I hadn't trained to be a coach. That takes great training. Being an assistant under a Coach Lombardi or a Tom Landry or whoever, that prepares you to do a better job when you become a coach. I hadn't received that training. It showed.

Jean Tigana wants to go to the top with Fulham, and I like that ambition.

Klopp is a great expert in football and I always said that I'd have liked to work with him when I was in my best form. He is a complete coach, he has everything.

I think the biggest thing, even from Day 1 after the draft, was coach DeFillipo being very detailed with everything.

Inzaghi is a complete European coach.

When you become a head coach, you've played the game; you've coached the game. You have a great understanding of what happens at every level.

When we are in possession, tactically, he is the best coach in the world for me. He works hard, watches a lot of games, and prepares us really well. Guardiola has the feeling for gaping spaces, and he already had that as a player.

Roy Hodgson is a very good manager with a clear plan.

Pochettino is a terrific manager if you look at the way his teams play.

With Luis Enrique, I never expected he would become a coach. He was an intuition player; he didn't speak with me about tactics.

I am interested in how much and how quickly Klopp, the manager that I know, can change the team at Liverpool.

Ancelotti is a coach with a lot of experience. He won the Champions League while at Milan, playing some great football in the process.

I would say Pep Guardiola's No. 1 quality is that he sees the technical and tactical aspect of a game really fast.

For me personally, Pep Guardiola is the best coach in the world.

Arsene Wenger has not just brought success to Arsenal. He is a very creative manager, producing almost fantasy football.

I had a brilliant relationship with Thomas Tuchel. We spoke a lot, not only on the surface, but really deep about football and our work.