“Some of the players in those days weren’t very well behaved,” he says. “I remember the question I asked him was, ‘How do you think you would handle some of our players?’ He said, ‘At Monaco I had Hoddle, Klinsmann and Hateley. I never had any trouble with any of them’. He doesn’t scream a lot but he gets everyone to play at their maximum. He changed a lot of the players’ outlooks by intelligent explanation. He doesn’t tell them to do something for his own benefit, he does it for theirs. He treats them as adults. These players are not unintelligent, they may appear to be some of them, but they do react to a logical explanation.”