In club football you have your players and staff with you all the time, preparing for two games a week, you know them inside out, you have a discipline over them.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
You have to know what club you are playing for, or you just play for yourself. Every time I put on a Liverpool shirt, I know it is more than just a football game.
When you're with your club team, every week you have a performance to judge. But when you're with the national team, it's a little different because you might not play for three or four months at a time. Things change constantly.
In international football you have 10 games a season, with players from different clubs. There's no time for proper coaching; they're just recovering from playing on the Saturday.
When you just work tactically, in pure football sessions, you can see the way they can think football.
Every week, as a staff, you put a plan together and put your players in position to make plays.
As a coach, when it comes to football players, we're trying to change their behavior and make them better. As people, we're trying to change their behavior and make them better.
If you own a football club, you have to be really involved and committed.
Football is made up of all kinds of conflict. In a dressing room, between players, between us and the manager, between us and loads of people who don't seem to matter. It's constant and harsh sometimes.
When you go out on a football field, you are responsible for taking care of yourself. The more rules you get, the less players truly take care of themselves.
To me, discipline in football occurs on the field, not off it.