I'd love to just be a fly on the wall with, sort of in your office, or when you're in control, of like your management style, because the player that you was and like the fuse that you've probably had and probably you've still got now, how do you react? Or how did you react with the players, like the current players? Because we know what they're like, they've got egos, they're prima donnas. Have you got to bite your lip? Can I spin it back a wee bit?

How do you think with the players, like the current players? Because we know what they're like. They've got egos, they're prima donnas.

Have you got to bite a little?

Can I spin it back a wee bit, right?

How do you think I reacted?

Right?

You tell me the truth.

How do you think I reacted to my players? Well, so from an outside. Just how you think that in my relation. Outside, people would think the personality you've got, it would be very much sort of, I'm in charge, you know, and players would probably be sort of fearful or scared, but you can see that in sense that there's probably an empathy side for you that players can really relate to as well. Well, yeah, part of that you're right, I'm probably a wee bit worried to say it. People think I'm aggressive.

Aggressive?

Not, maybe aggressive in the door. Yeah, I think that's because your personality. I'm not a shouter. I'm not a screamer. I'm not aggressive. Right? So I've never screamed, shouted on a youth development when I'd come through the 12s or the 40s. You can't shout with them anyway. I mean I wouldn't it.

The 18s, I went my way through the academy system.

I want my way in Everton as a coach, as a first team coach, as an assistant, as a manager. I've had two jobs now, and I've never raised my voice. I've hardly ever, if I've raised my voice, I've raised that a bit louder than raising it now. I don't think you need to raise your voice as a manager. I think if the players love you, respect you, you'll get the best out of you. You'll get the best out of them. Every great manager I've worked under has had the same. So if I worked under, God bless him, Walter Smith, who was the ex-Ranger's manager, never raised his voice. Very rarely. Maybe once a year. Maybe once every two years. Because you had respect for the man. He was a gentleman. You tried your very best for him. Carlo Angelotti the same. Howard Kendall, the same. All the successful managers were, and mostly quiet, and the players loved them in respect.

So it's brilliant.

So respect seems to be the theme that runs through it.

I guess the only thing I would love to see from a big dunk team would be the team just

refusing to do the handshakes at the start, and then we'd know you'd arrive.

That's that, yeah, we've got a few fines here. But what we'll say is, don't get me wrong, before the players get on there on a pitch, they know who they're playing for. They know what it's needed. You know, one of my teams at Everton, the first game I played Chelsea, when we beat them 3-1, they made 37 challenges or tackles in that game, which was a record over 10 years at Everton Football Club. So my first game for Everton, they were fired up, they were aggressed. My teams are aggressive. Yeah, yeah. They're aggressive when a football pitch. That's what you've got to be weigh the ball, off the ball as well, and where the ball. I'm a possession coach. I play possession.

I like the possession stats. I like to build through the pitch. And I've done it all the way through my academy. I've did it in my two clubs that have been at. So I like to play the possession and the football. But the players also know that, hey, you know, you're playing for me, you know what? It's what fans want as well I think sometimes

you know obviously it's very

I think well-trodden ground this

that one of the biggest annoyances

from a fan point of view is

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