Businessman

The Premier League is what it is. Some people will see the intensity and quality as a great advantage for your players: it will make them better. Some will see it as a disadvantage because the players play at such a high level and such intensity, it's difficult for them to drum that up, that intensity, with a very short space of rest time.

I have worked long and hard to reach the level I have reached.

I don't have any regrets.

We believe defending is very much a team job, and we can't just rely on a back four and a goalkeeper.

Why shouldn't Harry Kane take corners? If he happens to be the best striker of a ball in the team and gives you the best delivery, why shouldn't he do it?

I've got to that stage in my life where, difficult decisions I don't have to make, I push them into the future until such time I have to make them.

I speak five languages: English, Swedish, French, Italian, and German.

I try very hard not to look back.

I've got to be honest with you: I don't regard 29 as old.

The one thing we have to remember about Fernando Torres is that he's a human being who has come in for an enormous amount of criticism, not least during the World Cup from people in Spain and around the world.

You can't flirt with relegation every year.

Talk is talk; action on the field is action on the field.

I think, increasingly, people will define success as staying in the League, being a stable Premier League club that treats its fans to good football every year.

New faces, maybe perking up the squad and giving you another arrow to your bow - that can be a help.

Brazil is a fantastic football country.

All managers have someone they lean on and take advice from.

It's an achievement I can be happy about - if you call getting old and still being in a job an achievement.

It's very hard to be happy when you've lost.

I have always promised myself and my wife that when I don't enjoy it anymore, or I can't handle the stress and the pressure that comes with having such a high-profile and top job - or my energy levels starts to fail me, or my enthusiasm starts to be dented - I won't prolong my career longer than I feel I should.

Often, in a tournament, the players that get injured or suffer a lack of form are the guys at the cutting edge, the guys who make the difference or score the goals.