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.

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I'm not a defender of old or new football managers. I believe in good ones and bad ones, those that achieve success and those that don't.

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

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

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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.

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The negative side of football. The negative side of our society. People sometimes go to football and bring to it the negative aspects of our society.

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

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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.

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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.

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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.

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