“I’d love to have four strikers, but I don’t. I don’t even know what to tell you because I neither have four strikers, nor have I said any such thing to him. He must not have understood me properly. At no point can I tell him that he is the fourth striker.”
“For me, it’s clear that a player who four days ago couldn’t even make the bench for a match should not have started today. Especially because this is neither a final nor a do-or-die match, and because I think Gonzalo made a huge effort, and because we had another match on Sunday where he will surely be the first striker, as I told him. Seven days later he will surely be the first striker again.”
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“When players don’t play, they are not happy, and that’s why they are Real Madrid players. I can understand Mbappé not being happy about not playing, but for my part I didn’t want to take any risks.”
“As long as I’m sitting in this chair, I’m going to decide who plays and who doesn’t. I don’t care what their names are or aren’t, and if they like it, fine, and if not, they can wait for the next one.”
“My conscience is perfectly clear. I think it’s absolutely fine for players to show their dissatisfaction until the very last day.”
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