Ralf Rangnick

“I'm not on Instagram.”

“Players have to want to stay and play for the club.”

“I can very well imagine that a partnership with Oliver Bierhoff would be very prolific, especially for the future of German football.”

“Behind many players with an African background, and I've met a lot of them, there is a clan and sometimes a whole village, that lives from the help of one football player.”

“Our job as coaches is to help the team to create enough chances.”

“It doesn't make sense to speculate how other teams will play or if they will drop points or not.”

“Every coach, every ambitious coach - and there's no difference between other coaches and myself in that area - wants to take faster steps and larger steps forward. But in order to do that, you need to be able to train.”

“At the time when Chelsea contacted me, they only talked about the option to become interim manager for four months without the perspective for longer-term.”

“If you win the ball, your best possibility to score is within eight seconds. You can't stop the ball and trap the ball and watch and look and keep the ball again, there is no time for that.”

“If 30 per cent of the goals are being scored after set-pieces, how much percentage of our training time should we invest in set-pieces? Thirty per cent.”

“What do we do when we have the ball? What do we do when the other team has the ball? In those two areas I think it is important to develop the team.”

“I have worked for some big traditional clubs like Schalke and Stuttgart, but this is no guarantee that you will perform at the highest level.”

“Football can basically bring a lot together, even topics that are otherwise difficult to unite. For this, but football must try to stay out of political positions. Football should continue to be aware of this function; this includes taking an apolitical role.”

“I'm a big fan of every player plays in his best possible position.”

“Well, I think most teams have their system in England and they stick to it.”

“Of course in Hoffenheim in 2006 and here in Leipzig in 2012, we started out with an essentially clean slate. In both cases we tried to hire competent staff, in other words, the best man or woman for the job.”

“You need to have, as a coach, a very clear idea of how we want to play when we have the ball ourselves.”

“We had nothing. I earned my own money and used it to finance my studies. From the age of 18, I basically no longer burdened my parents financially. Apart from that, this teacher/coach gene crystallised in me early on.”

“The step to Manchester United is a big one; for a 21-year-old, a massive step and it takes time.”

“If players tell the doctor and the medical department they are injured and cannot play I have to accept it.”