Eintracht Frankfurt 2 Kaiserslautern 5. Pokal retained. Simon 10, Mazzuco 56, Savchenko 57 and 82, Castro 76. Guirassy got both of theirs and it never once felt close. Barcelona on Wednesday, neutral ground. I'd like to enjoy tonight and I already know I won't.
1,000 games. All of them here. 17 league titles, 40 cups. 17 in a row in the First Division, 2022 to 2038. Spanish League Head Coach of the Year 15 times. French Head Coach of the Year 10 times, for a job I have never done in France. Levante away on Saturday.
Spain have offered me the job again. €7,265,000 a year, replacing Unai Medina. Third time of asking. Unai Emery's job in 2030, Guardiola's in 2036, now this one. Same line every time: the European League Div. A "isn't high on their list of priorities" and they'll judge me on the other competitions. Three times a country has asked. Three times I have had a Levante game on the Saturday.
900 games. All of them here. 9 league titles, 17 cups. German Head Coach of the Year seven times. The article calls me a "Kaiserslautern legend". In 2019 this club wouldn't spend €15k on my badges.
Renewing Haaland. He's 35 and the game has started describing him as a "legendary striker", which is the word you get instead of years. He wants 24.49m a year, a 5.75m loyalty bonus and a release clause at 129. His agent's relationship with me is listed as "Hates you", and his opening line was that my offer is too far apart from his client's demands for him to consider negotiating. Coach report: "important player but may be past his best". 61 goals in 34 appearances. Eight Golden Balls. Past his best.
842 games at this football club. 572 won, 67%. Sixteen years. Days spent on holiday in that time: 0. Not one. I took this job at 20 with 24 players queueing up to tell me we were playing badly.
Nuevo Mestalla. 64,560 in. Nothing at all for 76 minutes. Garmendia, penalty, 76. Nieto, 77. Garmendia again, 89. 99 points. Sevilla 98. Sixteen years here and it comes down to one point on the final day.
Serie A. 35 games, 26 won, 8 drawn, 1 lost. 86 points. The question in there today was whether a squad averaging 24 years old can go and do it again. One defeat in a season isn't something you plan or repeat. It happens to you once and you should enjoy it before anyone asks you to explain it.
New contract on the table. Five years to 2040, 11.24m a year, 425k if we win the Champions Cup. Objectives attached: win the Bundesliga, win the Pokal, win the Supercup, and reach the Champions Cup final. That last one is listed as the MINIMUM. Sixteen years ago this same board wouldn't fund a coaching course because they lacked confidence in me. Signing it anyway.
Vinicius Junior's testimonial. Sixteenth year at the club, second spell, 415 league games since he came back. 49,438 in on a warm evening for a friendly. Rodrygo, Gutierrez and Militao all came back for it. Haaland scored, obviously. 2-0. Nobody was counting.
Liverpool have invited me to interview for their head coach job. We play Liverpool tomorrow night. We're top of the league. Reason given: my "strong commitment towards playing attacking soccer". Do I take the meeting or is the timing of that a red flag
80 minutes at the San Siro, still 0-0. Andrezinho 81. Caruso 90. Andrezinho again 90+1. Caruso again 90+3. 4-0 in a European Cup final and not one of them before the 81st minute.
Real Madrid tomorrow. Neutral ground. We finished 2nd and sustained a title challenge all year. The word in the press this week has been "under-pressure". Leo Guerreiro went out and told FourFourTwo the club should be patient with me, which I appreciated a lot more than I let on. Eight years ago I was managing in the Scottish second division.
Champions of Spain. San Mames, 53,332, last day of the season. Nieto 53, Garmendia 62, and I let myself believe it. Larrinaga sent off on 70. Sealetsa scored on 79 and again on 83. Bakero, 87th minute, ten men. 3-2. 90 points. Sevilla and Real Madrid both finished on 85. This club only signs from one corner of one country.
19 shots to 16. Ten on target to six. xG 2.51 to 1.60. Barcelona 3 Real Madrid 2. Haaland scored twice in seven second half minutes, both from El Hachimi, and got an 8.6. Thompson got theirs on 2 and 84. Staff report says we put in "a good performance". I'm aware.
1st in the world Hall of Fame. 5,425. Guardiola is 2nd. 5,423. Eleven league titles, five European Cups, eleven years, and it comes down to two points.
Two clubs. 476 games, 277 wins, 58%. Croatian second division title, Serie A title, Italian Cup. Three trophies in 11 years. Would have taken your hand off for that when the monthly gate money was €83.
Campioni d'Italia. Four years at Cibalia, seven here. 476 games. I learned Croatian to take a job nobody else wanted. That was eleven years ago.
Manager of the Month for April. Five games, five wins. Bournemouth away 3-1. Stoke 4-0. Everton 2-0. Huddersfield 2-0. Fulham away 3-0. Fourteen scored, one conceded. De Boer at Newcastle went 80% and finished second. I'm 36 and it's the first one of these I've had in England.
Milinkovic-Savic sent off on 34. Held them with ten men through the rest of normal time, took it to extra time at 1-1 on aggregate. Genuinely believed. Then: 90+2, 92, 105, 110, 112. 5-0. 5-1 on aggregate. 33 shots to our 10. 18 on target to our zero. Staff have filed it as "a very worrying performance", which is certainly one way of putting it.
