Sven-Goran Eriksson
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And in this case, Rooney, yes, he is supposed to be fit according to specialists.
Then I have to pick him, whatever United say.
Mourinho was very easy to deal with because he said, the players are yours from tomorrow.
You do whatever you want with them.
And I said sometimes, but you have someone injured or not.
You have doctors, he said.
You decide.
So that was very easy.
Wenger was easy as well, but...
Ferguson, not easy, but I strongly respect him for who he is, what he has done, and so on.
And I understand him because I had Lazio and I had a lot of players playing in different national teams in Chile, in Argentina, and I was always angry, especially in friendly games.
They had to go to Argentina to play a friendly game for three days.
I was furious, I remember.
I would have taken 2006 for sure.
A mental coach for penalties.
That was a big mistake.
That's the biggest mistake I did, I think.
Because I thought that the players who have been there... We had a very...
many players in the team 2006 who has been around for a long time.
So I thought they will handle this, they will handle more or less everything.