I can see the carrot at the end of the tunnel.’

Liverpool are his dream club and he wanted to leave and rejoin them.

I want them to be fully committed to the work place and fully committed to the people they work for.

Danny is one of those boys who can read certain things into certain situations that are not actually there,

As a young man trying to make your way in life, you feel your back is against the wall and you are scrapping against the whole world,

The business regarding Robbie was very good. It is very easy to say ‘let’s stop the clock’ but life doesn’t work like that. Letting Robbie go was the right move for him and the right...

It can be a bit of a hindrance when you walk into a restaurant for a quiet meal and one or two launch into ‘Psycho, Psycho’!

There is a contract there, but it’s not signed. Bits of paper don’t really mean a great deal to me. To shake the chairman’s hand and look him in the eye and get an honest...

I will do whatever it takes to win a football match.

They have too many good players, a good manager and good coaches,

Joey came for nothing and can go for nothing at the end of his contract. If I decided it was the best for Manchester City, I’d make him see out his contract.

Today I thought we deserved it. Results haven’t been good at the club but the players have stuck at it and they’ve been under a bit of pressure.

In a utopia you want to win matches by several goals and by playing a wonderful brand of football. But that’s utopia.

If my results are not good I will lose my job.

We have to look after our over-30s as best we can and this break gives me a chance to tell one or two of them to put their feet up.

We have to be interested in any good player that comes along and he’ll train with us.

Everything is agreed with Lee Croft financially. I have spoken to him and his agent about football matters. He is quite keen to stay here and hopefully he will be signing within the next day...

I sensed they were nervous that they hadn’t made the breakthrough but, when you’re chasing the game against Liverpool, you’re going to be vulnerable.

I will pick the formation and the personnel that I believe will win the next game. I have got no rigid formations in my mind.

I looked at him, … All I could say was, ‘you bastard’.

It was going to take a wonder goal to do it for us because it was nip and tuck out there. We played better here against Bolton and lost but that’s how it is in...

The injuries have tended to come in cycles this season.

We started extremely well, we had our tails up and put them under pressure. If I’m honest, maybe the lack of firepower has cost us with losing Georgios at the weekend, but I won’t make...

He puts the ball exactly where he wants it, and that’s a lesson for young players. That’s partly why he’s here as well, so the young players can look at him and Darius and the...

Football’s in my blood – and eventually I want to be the one making decisions.

Andy has surprised me,

If someone shows you loyalty, you repay it.

He has done well for us. Maybe his goal can spur us on to a late run to get us three more wins.

We are in a results business, so Stuart Pearce being a jolly old boy won’t keep me in a job.

I don’t want to portray myself as a hard man in management or anything like that.

I would like to bring two or three new players in before the deadline but if we don’t, we will look at the next deadline and then the one after that,

My team picked up one point out of 12 over Christmas and were a bit low on confidence – maybe but we deserved it.

We had a few good runs with Forest. It was a burning ambition of mine to be the captain who said to Brian Clough ‘here is the FA Cup’. Unfortunately, we didn’t quite manage it.

I hope we get a decision shortly – I will be dead soon

I want my City team to play up-tempo, quick-passing football.

I told the chairman it would be less than 20 minutes, in fact it was 23.

I think Trevor has stretched ligaments in his knee but we will not know for sure until all the tests are done, … I have got my fingers crossed.

If I was a supporter, I would be disgusted with that performance. I know that I am, as a manager. We showed no moral courage whatsoever.

[And Ferguson was wrong in at least one point: it is not like last season because City are now under the leadership of Stuart Pearce and they have developed an obduracy that was an elusive...

He was probably a little bit quicker or sharper during his days at United but I cannot believe he was any more clinical,

I have no idea how realistic it is to stay in our present position,

I am disappointed for him.

Credit to Kasper, because he has done exactly what we wanted from him, as well as what Bury wanted, so it has worked very well for both of us.

[Stuart Pearce is hopeful that Andy Cole will return for City’s match with Everton on Sunday. Cole has missed the last two League games with a back injury and City have failed to score in...

But to me the bottom line is the more education you can give yourself, and the more preparation you can do, the less chance of failing.

Now we are at the top of the league, we have got to play like a team that deserves to be there at this moment in time.

You have to play with controlled aggression, it’s the only way. I was sent off five times in 1,000 games, that is controlled aggression. I deserved those red cards, and if I didn’t I wouldn’t...

We gave Liverpool too much respect. They haven’t been a free-scoring side lately, but once they get their noses in front they are difficult to break down.

I enquired about getting Shaun back on loan but they said no. I don’t think they want him to go anywhere.

I am one of those people who quite enjoys responsibility.