"It's not uncommon to hear people think of me as the style of old-school coaching.
I grew up with old-school coaches, and I think not everything they teach should be discarded, just as everything new shouldn't be embraced. Football is a serious business that needs balance and requires us to focus more on the players and work with them. Football tactics are necessary, but in Europe you have to focus on youth and individual skills when you have players who pass more than 100 balls per hour, and you can't put tactics at the heart without good players.
We need to take a step back and work from the basics. But who doesn't start from the bottom of the ground?Skilled players look like a treat, especially in the academy, and this aspect needs special attention, but the game has to have ten players who can pass the ball well or it becomes a problem.
I feel like today players have become a tool for coaches to show what they are capable of. Good coaches are those who win games and create value. It's very difficult to be a coach and you can't explain how to be a coach, it's a profession to coach from Monday to Saturday and it's a completely different day on Sunday because you have to deal with unexpected situations, which are neither technical nor tactical.
You can't learn how to be a coach in books. Coaches also rely on feeling, just as Capello never makes mistakes on the bench.
Communication, such as human resource management, is a very important thing in this type of work. I think a great coach is someone who can find and solve problems. If someone asks me how to be a coach, I don't know, I don't want to be on the opposite side of anyone, what I need is balance.
The coach has to serve the players, and if you become good, it's because the players let you win the game. I've lost games, of course, hopefully not a lot, and the best coach is the one that lets you lose less. Sanity is needed in all industries. "