I think that when you are part of a football team, it is a group. That means the players and the staff, including the manager and all that administration.
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I do not like to live in the past, I live in the present. I think that is very important as a player, as a coach, and as a human being.
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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.
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When I see a game on the television, and you see afterwards 'possession percentage 60-40,' that doesn't say anything for me because it could be that one team is playing the ball between the back four 120 times.
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Cruyff defined a philosophy and a style of how we had to play: positional play, type of players, the profile of the coaches, even.
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If you lose a player who scores seven, eight, or nine goals, you have to find another one.
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I don't think I'll see the next Messi in my lifetime.
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It's always difficult to play the big teams, but I would rather play them at the start of the season.
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We can all have a bad day. It happens for me as well.