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It takes the pressure off of your better players to know they don't always have to be on top of their game for the team to do well.

It is a great boost for confidence in a squad when there is not just one or two players scoring goals, but the whole team is contributing.

If the players don't trust the coach, it is a problem, and vice versa.

You try on purpose to get players with different qualities which will rub off on one another.

I'm not a person or a selfish player, but we have to move the ball more, and we have to look further the team game, because we have enough talent to use different players.

You have to understand that in this league, we are all one play removed from being the starter or from being the backup, in any game.

So if the players trust the coach, it's not a problem. If the players don't trust the coach, it is a problem, and vice versa.

One man can be a crucial ingredient on a team, but one man cannot make a team.

It's difficult working with someone who is not a team player.

As football gets more globalised, it's probably more important than ever to have one or two players in your team who have grown up in the same streets or been to the same schools as the hard-core fans.