“Yeah, I’m affected person. I can not say on this membership that we’re ready for 2 or three years. On this membership the goal is, and I feel the calls for and the requirements must be, that you simply win each sport. Go ino each sport with that goal. I demand my staff and gamers win each sport. It would not matter who the opponent is and I’ll persist with that. That introduced us, final 12 months, very far. We have been third within the league, within the FA Cup last, and we might even have received the FA Cup last, and we received the Carabao Cup. That mentality, I do not wish to change this. As a result of that can be a drop off in tradition. Meaning, yeah, there’s a excessive normal [expected of] me and likewise me with the staff. There are additionally excessive requirements on the gamers and I do not make compromises in that.”
Is not it a incontrovertible fact that just one staff can win the league and just one can win the Champions League? So it is simply being life like, I suppose…
“That is true. I’m very life like but additionally on these events we discuss extra about it, there may be competitors within the league which could be very powerful. There are various good opponents and I feel the extent elevated rather a lot. I instructed you two weeks in the past, you possibly can see the bodily outputs elevated rather a lot within the final three or 4 months within the Premier League. That signifies that as a membership, as a staff, you need to match the requirements. There isn’t any approach you are able to do much less as a result of when you do much less you possibly can by no means obtain what you wish to obtain. And sure, we wish to win the Premier League and the Champions League.”
You talked about that you simply listened to your gamers. I simply questioned what that was like – do you go to them or do you look ahead to them to level issues out?
“[It is a] continued course of. We’re at all times within the motion. The administration staff, the teaching workers. We do it in staff talks, in a bunch, with people or in partnerships. There may be lots of interplay.”