Why do you feel this is the right time to return to management?
Well I was one year waiting. First of all, thank you for your welcome. I hope you will be nice with me in this press conference. It is not compulsory and I can walk away. I hope we have nice people in the first press conference! No, it is nice to be here. Thank you for all coming. I think it is a great opportunity for me to be back in the Premier League which, for me, is the best league in the world. I think Chelsea convinced me to be here. Of course, Chelsea is a great team. You know very well that in the last 10, 12, 15 years that Chelsea’s men and women have had the greatest history and won many, many trophies. It is a great team and I am very happy to be here. I am very proud of my past, and I don’t want to talk in a different way but I need to look forward and concentrate on what people expect from me in this football club. I hope to build a very special relationship with everyone.
Of course, I need to be bright and clever in the way that we are going to settle everything for the next few weeks to compete and be right in our decisions, and to create a very competitive team because the Premier League is very tough. What I found from Monday is a club with very, very good people, good attitudes and I am so happy. So far, so good. I hope to keep this feeling for the rest of the season.
