"I always say a squad is like a good meal. I'm not a great cook, but a good meal takes a wee bit of time. But also, to offer a good meal, you need good ingredients."
>"I've always worked along with the statistic that if you can dominate the game with the ball you have a 79% chance of winning the game."
"When you’ve got the ball 65-70% of the time, it’s a football death for the other team. We’re not at that stage yet, but that’s what we will get to. It’s death by football. You just suck the life out of them."
>"Southampton don’t have to sell, they have a choice. Maybe their objectives have changed. They were looking to be a Champions League club, I believe."
"If you spend more than £100 million, you expect to be challenging for the league."
>"I will leave no stone unturned in my quest – and that quest will be relentless."
"I use a quote with the players,'Per aspera ad astra', which is Latin for ‘through adversity to the stars’."
>“The best players want to play in the best competition. Any club will suffer the same when they’re not in there. It will hurt you, and United will know that.”
"I think there’s three players who will let us down this year — the cause, the fight, everything – and I have written them down already in these three envelopes. Make sure you are not in one of the envelopes."
>"I started coaching for one reason and that was to make a difference for people, not just as footballers but as human beings."
"I’ve always said that you can live without water for many days, but you can’t live for a second without hope."
>"It was a perfect away performance, apart from the first 10 minutes."
"It was a perfect away performance, apart from the first 10 minutes."