**Just again on your time with Jadon, when he came in, it was that summer where Cristiano \[Ronaldo\] came in towards the end of it. There were a lot of options there. Were there almost too many players there at that time for it to be easy for him to get a run in the team?**
“I think part of playing at a top club and a big club is establishing yourself regardless, and I'm not talking about Jadon individually on this. I think whoever signs for this club, you've got to then play well enough, earn your right to play in the team. It’s not a given, just because you end up having a run in the team, to then find your way through it. And this is not about Jadon, trust me. It's not an individual thing, it's just that's how it is, that's how it should be. So, you can't just assume that it's all going to be smooth. It's proven that it's not always like that. So, you've got to find a way through it and if you’re playing with a good team, with good players and a good squad and depth, then that's just part of the challenge that you've got to live up to stay at the top. And that's how it should be, you know, if you want to be challenging and then you want to be pushing each other and you want a squad to do that, then you've got to have a lot of good players that are all wanting to play.”
**There's been an expectation I think this season, given England's strong coefficient, that the top five would get Champions League places. Obviously, it's not been a good week for English clubs in Europe. Is your message to the players, ‘Top four, top four,’ because there's no guarantee at this stage that fifth will definitely be enough to get a Champions League spot?**
"No, it's literally game by game really and trying to win. Sounds an obvious answer, but you can't plan for whether you finish fourth or fifth, really. You go into the next game, going, ‘We're all in on this game, what do we need to do to try and win it?’ And yeah, so it's not in the mindset of what's going to be enough. It's what do we need to do next week, what do we need to do next Friday, what do we need to build on that? And it's not something you can plan for really, is what I'm getting at, and we just need to be \[using\] everything we've got, foot fully flat down on the floor and approach each game like that. There's no other way. So, listen, it might change, it might not. There's going to have to be quite a big swing for it to not be fifth, but ultimately that's not something we can control, you know, and ideally, we'd like to be fighting above that anyway. So, if we keep our heads really positive and focus on the next game and focus on where we can achieve and try and move up the table, it's a lot better place to have that mindset for.”
**Obviously it's gone really well since you came in to become manager, but when you have a setback like you did at Newcastle, do you learn more about the mentality of players when maybe a game has not gone to plan?**
“I think you're always learning. I think you always learn. There are different types of setbacks, you know. There's been games where we conceded goals, we were 2-0 up, back to 2-2 and we had that big setback, and we found a winner. So, there's always times through games and through the run of the week, it's not just suddenly, all of a sudden, everything's been perfect and then all of a sudden it's come crashing down, so there's constant. It's a defeat, we don't like defeats, we don't like them at all and we want to win every game, but there's definitely putting things into perspective a little bit in it. And the boys have responded really well. They were disappointed after the game, as you'd expect. We were all disappointed. But we're not making more of it than needs to be made as well and getting that balance right because we're a good team when we do the right things and we've got really good players. We've proved that recently and we need to keep proving that.”