“I found it that the more up you go on a level, the simpler it is when you talk to people. For me, I find it much simpler to talk football with top, top coaches in the world than I had it talking with some students or some lower league coaches. When I speak to a top coach and ask him about his methods he says to me ‘look he’s quick’ ‘or ‘he gets up and down’. In Croatia if I spoke with someone from the Croatian first league or second league then they never say ‘he’s quick’ or ‘he’s fast’. They say ‘listen, his anaerobic endurance is 1.2 cross metres squared in a second’. And then people on the next table, the chairmen, say ‘oh, he’s clever’.’ The higher you go, okay, there are still metrics, but the higher you go the more simple it is. They are talking like fans.”