"We won, and that's what we wanted: to play our game and play football. We celebrated the victory in the dressing room, but not the title. We were only focused on getting the job done today."
We need to do our best in terms of what we need to grow. Our first aim is the Premier League; this should be said publicly, it's a normal thing. This [competition] is something extra, but that doesn't mean we don't want to pass (through), that we don't want to go to the next round.
When waters are choppy, you do not need some ambitious captain with notions of heading out on an adventure. All you really want is someone who can get you safely to shore. Igor Tudor is not keen on the word. Hearing it applied to him when he arrived at Juventus last season, he observed that every manager, everywhere, is living from game to game. You can have a contract for five years and get sent home after three matches, he said.
