The day after Shaun left, I looked round the training ground and didn’t see any sign of a hangover from the players,

I only have 13 senior players available for Saturday, so I will have to juggle things about and bring a few youngsters in.

We looked like the team that was up for a derby match, up for a scrap and we took our chances when they came.

Andy had another operation on his knee yesterday (Wednesday) after they found some floating material in there, and as a result he will be out for the rest of the season.

I am doing the job with the mentality that I am going to be here a long time and I hope that I am.

We have already had to play all the players we have available this season – and we are only eight games in. But I think we are reasonably healthy in the defensive positions although we...

I am disappointed, but more for the fans and chairman. We hope to secure him on a long-term contract. I will talk to him today and I think we can get something sorted out.

We’ve Claudio back in training and we’ll judge how he comes along.

The manager deserves a lot of credit, … He’s built a lot of resilience into the team, and he’s got everyone playing for each other. He has confidence in young players he’s put into the...

I am ready to work, I am ready for this job and I am ready for this challenge.

I told him to bring us 14 or 15 goals this season and he is well on the way to providing that.

I certainly don’t think we deserved to lose. There’s a great confidence in the dressing-room at the moment and a growing will not to get beaten.

With what has happened to Coley, he is certainly not going at the moment. That might be a decision we make in March or April.

I think it’s more respectful to a player to have a word on a one-to-one basis. And obviously it gives them less of a forum to answer back. In the main, I’ve rarely had to...

Make no mistake, I am not about to walk through the door in three or four days’ time and announce that I know everything about football management.

The award reflects totally on how the team have done,

He would love to roll up at Old Trafford and get booed because he scored against them,

It was a minor operation, but with the season running down we think it will be very doubtful that will get him back on the pitch this season.

We had a chat with Joey at boardroom level on Tuesday just to say well done,

We looked like a team who were up for a derby match and up for a scrap.

Make no mistake, you would prefer to work for someone who is going to put your arm around you at times and lift you.

Whether you are in the team or not, I have told all my players they will get a fair chance,

He’ll be in and fighting for a place. He’s got to join the squad running and force me to pick him.

Stephen Ireland’s injury is worse than we first thought, so he will probably miss the rest of the season.

I spoke with Joey on Wednesday and we are hoping to move things along within the next week or so.

I am nothing without the players.

Andy has made a decent start for us over the first four games but I need him to have a whole season at it, get into double figures and work hard for the team,

It was the right decision. There’s no point me sitting here and smoke-screening it because I make the decisions at this football club but taking the day off did not contribute to what we did...

It only takes a couple of back-to-back victories and all of a sudden clubs in mid-table can catapult themselves into contention for a European spot.

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.