Thierry Henry

I'm not going to punish you for not playing when you're my best player, for example.

I had Michael Urize arriving late.

I'm sure Michael won't mind me saying that.

And you know when you look at your watch, you look at your watch, it's 2.48.

And I can see the players looking at their watch.

The only player missing is Michael Urize, my best player.

They're looking at me.

I can see the players touching each other and go like, you know, type of.

And I didn't flinch.

Okay?

Three o'clock, closed the door.

The guy, the press officer was like, Michael is in the corridor coming.

Closed the door.

Three o'clock, three o'clock.

But I didn't punish him not playing the day after or that day or whatever it was.

I don't know if it was on the day or the day before.

I closed the door.

did the meeting, came in with my assistant after, rewatched the meeting alone, we explained what was supposed to happen the day after, and he played.

Why am I going to shoot myself alone, in my foot alone, for not playing my best player, just because he was late for a meeting?

In my time, that wasn't accepted.