I'm a great believer that you cannot have enough senior pros around your dressing room.

It's very easy for people to overlook how important a good goalkeeper is in a team.

In 2017, Kante has been fantastic and is almost two players at times. He covers every blade of grass and he's not short of technique. He would get in any team because there's room for that type of player no matter what system you play or level you play at.

The Scottish people and the people of the north-east are very similar - they love their football.

Mark Viduka, Nicolas Anelka and Michael Owen are all top strikers and the facts speak for themselves.

A football club's board of directors' job is to attract and get the best football players and keep them at the football club.

When I do read, it tends to be serious books like autobiographies and if I've met a famous person, I'll read up on them.

When I have an evening out I like to see big musicals where the whole audience is encouraged to giddy up out of the seat.

I much prefer films based on fact rather than fictional stories.

I go to anything at the cinema that gets the hype. I'm so easily seduced by it.

Historically, Jose Mourinho is not a manager who chops and changes his team and he's not big on rotation.

If you are making mistakes at centre-back then inevitably that results in an effort on your goal and your goalkeeper has to make a save.

What I miss about football is being in the dressing room. But do I miss three o'clock on a Saturday afternoon when matters are totally out of your hands? No, I don't. Do I miss placing my destiny in the hands of others? No, I don't. I loved it as a player. I liked it as a manager. But that's all come and gone.

I've won something like 27 trophies in my lifetime. There are people out there who are very good players and yet they've won nothing. I won 10 trophies in three different countries as a manager: I've got nothing to prove. I've done it.

There's managers out there now who would love to have won a single trophy. The fact is the vast majority of them haven't. So I'm quite cool about what I did as a player and as a manager. Could I have done better, or differently? Of course. But that's all water that has flowed under the bridge; it doesn't cause me any sleepless nights.

I worry for Scottish football.

I get why people didn't like me, or don't like me, because I have an arrogance.

As you get older, I suppose, you get a bit more cautious in everything you do. But I've always been blessed with self-belief.

In my youth fashion was about moustaches and curly hair.

I was always - and I have no idea where it came from - a confident boy. And when I look at how I've lived my life that's how I've lived it.

The world is changing, football should definitely too.

Football clubs can be quite homophobic, both in the dressing room and in the stands. I want to show I'm an ally.

All top players have an edge to them.

I've never courted popularity.