"My whole life I’m living in the moment, in the day, and I’m not looking backwards a lot and I’m not looking forwards a lot because it’s the type of person that I am," he said.

"People constantly tell you: 'Try to enjoy it, try to enjoy the whole journey,’ but the only thing you are thinking about as a manager is: ‘At the weekend there is a game coming up as well and we need to win that’.

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"So, maybe that’s one of the reasons: because I’m already so long in football that you get used to the fact of living day-by-day and trying to influence day-by-day.

"I can only judge him on the quality he has now and I’m not an expert in what is the reason why Thiago could do this," he added.

"The first thing that comes to mind is stay fit

"He’s having a big influence at this club but the main influence he has, of course, is on the weekend, and that is also the thing he has to focus on mostly.