A lot can happen in football.

If we want to fight at the end of the season for big things and to lift trophies, you need to keep that intensity always.

We need to be regular and have consistency during the whole season.

You have to realise that players change every year, just like we change because every year is different, as things happen in our lives.

All players need to feel confidence from the staff, the players, the supporters. All need to be consistent in training and games to give their best.

Being a captain means a lot - it's not just about wearing the armband.

It is difficult to give time to develop projects in football. You buy the club, and you want the title after three months.

The chairman is the man who manages everything and, in the end, takes all the decisions. Always, for the fans, it's important to hear him.

When you talk about Beckham, he's a massive world icon.

If we don't need the players who are available to sign, then why are we going to sign?

We are always trying to improve our squad because football is dynamic.

When you are better than your opposition for 45 minutes and create six chances, if you don't score, you are in danger in the Premier League. It's the best league in the world.

The most important club in the world is Tottenham. And it is the best club in the world. I need to feel like this, and that emotion is real because I cannot be fake. It's too difficult to create the trust if you don't really believe, and it's not real, that emotion.

He is a killer, Harry Kane.

I would put Harry Kane in with Batistuta. All that is happening to him, he deserves. He is the protagonist of his life, and he deserves all the prize.

Every single club is special and is different.

I feel happy here in Tottenham because I feel the recognition for our job.

The most important thing is how you are made to feel in your home.

I think the most important thing is to keep going and fighting to be in a good position. Like many clubs say, to be in the top four is a massive success.

I take every season as it being different.

My only focus is to try to assess and to provide the players with better tools to perform.

It's important to have the opportunity to learn.

For me, Jose Mourinho is one of the best managers in the world. I don't think he needs to show anyone that he is one of the best.

To win games, we need to be focused for 95 minutes. If not, you always pay in football.

Always, you miss all the players when they are injured.

Obviously, if you win a trophy, like I won when I was a player, it's a moment to celebrate. For me - this is my mentality, and I don't want to say it's right or wrong - I love to celebrate in private and not make it public. I love to celebrate the things with your team-mates.

I love it when the people celebrate when they beat you.

I always remember being competitive. From the beginning, with my brothers, with my friends, playing at school, everything - in everything I was involved in.

After games, my wife gives me a lot of advice and criticism. Sometimes, I am upset. I say, 'Why do you advise me this?' But I like it, because to listen to a different point of view is always important. You can find a different position or point of view that can help you to be more creative.

We have short memories in football.

I work with young people, and I know that we must be careful. Newspaper headlines, sudden notoriety, and important comparisons can lead to confusion.

We have seen that many teams, both in La Liga and the Premier League, have the economic capacity to steal a star from an important team.

When you play for Barcelona, there is always pressure to win - you play for something special. It's the same when you player for Tottenham; the names are not important.

What puts you in a different level is if you win the Premier League, and you're capable of challenging every season for the Premier League, and if you play Champions League, and you really believe, and you're a real contender one day to win the Champions League. That's my objective in Tottenham.

My ambition is to win the Champions League one day with Tottenham, or the Premier League.

When the club offers you the job, they say what the club expects from you. If the club says to you, 'I want you to win the Champions League, the Premier League, the Carabao Cup,' you say, 'OK, you want to win this and this and this? Can you give me this and this and this?'

Rather than complain about a thing you cannot change, I try to find a solution to help the performance in the best way.

I love to work and feel part of the project: to share and create something special.

I feel very important at Tottenham, very comfortable, and I enjoy the journey a lot.

To be a player is so difficult.

I live in the present; there is nothing more important than that.

It is always in our dream to win, and you need to dream of bigger things.

It is always in my nature to work like you are going to be at the club forever, for your life.

I think all the players need coaching; if you do not push the player, they are going to be too comfortable. Always, you need to push.

If you are 25, 30, 35, you need to think you can learn every day. If not, you are going to go backwards, and of course you are going to fail, and you begin to see the end of your career.

I'm someone who likes new things, likes change. But I also like challenges. I was a little bit of a prisoner to my challenge each time.

The fact is I have an interpreter because he gives me the security that, when I have to answer complex questions, and with my complex answers, it's much better I have an interpreter to make sure nothing is misconstrued.

Juventus are specialists because they have the habit to win and the habit to put pressure on the referee. It's a club with a culture to try to do everything to help the team.

It's difficult to compete if you are not consistent.