“When I came here to the football club to work, I am 53. I work in football for 30 years so I can split things. I can switch off one thing and the othe rthing and I don’t carry things around.

“If I’m private then I’m private, if I’m in football then I’m here. Of course we are influenced by things that happen aorund us but nobody has to worry about me.

“I am honestly – I might not look like this because the weather is not cool and I’m white and the beard gets more and more grey, yes I don’t sleep a lot but I’m full of energy.

“Honestly, the situation is a challenge. I don’t want to have the situation but now we are in it and now I see it as an interesting challenge.

“We will sort it… Sorting it by playing football, sorting it by sticking even more together, sorting it my fighting with everything we have. That’s actually the plan we have.