"The only thing that we cannot control is our supporters."

"I don't say we are a defensive team. I say we are a strong team in defensive terms, but at the same time lacking sufficient fluidity in attack because that will take time to come."

"The Porto players were with me for two and a half years, they believed in me, in my methods, in the way we do it. The next day I go and a manager arrives who works completely differently."

"Facing the press is not easy, but because you have to go, you have to try to take a lot of positive things for yourself from these face-to-face meetings."

"The only thing I would like is to have more control of the game in terms of possession."

"I enjoy the work, I enjoy every minute of my professional life."

"The team is completely close. Anything you say outside, there is no chance it will go inside. So the team is really strong and compact. We know what we want and how to achieve it on the pitch."

"Especially when you play at home, you need a good atmosphere behind you."

"The way I use to develop an aerobic condition is three against three, man to man, in a square 20 metres by 20."

"In five years I have never had a match where my team has had less possession than the opponents."

"I was nine or 10 years old and my father was sacked on Christmas Day. He was a manager, the results had not been good, he lost a game on December 22 or 23. On Christmas Day, the telephone rang and he was sacked in the middle of our lunch."

"You have to win and especially, as I have, you have to win a trophy for the first time."

"But I think it's more normal for my team to have no success than it is to win two consecutive European cups."

"I followed an Italian manager and it cannot be easy when you follow a manager who thinks very differently."

"In the same way that I had to follow an Italian manager here, I can imagine that it was not easy for an Italian manager to follow me at Porto."

"At the very least we should be given a bit of credit and a little bit of space, and maybe the media should think we could help them discover why English teams do not win European competitions."

"Look at the way teams play against Arsenal. They don't believe they can win. They don't believe."

"When I go to the press conference before the game, in my mind the game has already started."

"When I face the media, maybe I don't feel it now, here with you, because it's a different sort of interview, but when I face the media before or after the game, I feel it as part of the game."