Jürgen discusses Pep Guardiola, English football and more

The German discussed transfer deadline day, the news of Manchester City hiring Pep Guardiola for next season, settling into life in England and getting to grips with a different kind of football.

On Guardiola...

[I have] no advice. I think it's a long trip for him to go. At Bayern he has enough work to do but, of course, when he's here a very warm welcome, like I had when I came here. For sure he's one of the best managers in the world, no doubt about it. He's [worked at] two big clubs and now he will do his job at Manchester City.

On transfers...

I'm not sure what's better for your work, which answer! I can say 'maybe something happens' or I can say the truth. What do you want to hear? [laughing] I'm not sure on the outgoing side, not 100 per cent sure. But I don't think that something will happen on the other side. That's the situation.

On feeling settled...

Absolutely. First thing, I understand television without subtitles, so that's a good thing! Everything gets better and better, I know much more about the people. We are the team in Europe who has had the most amount of competitive games, I think, in the season. That's really intensive, there's no doubt about it, but in my opinion it's a sign of desire that obviously we couldn't always play our best football but we were fighting for results. So that's important and we are in all competitions. That's why we have a big number of games. The games are the best chance to settle in because you learn more about the team and the club. This is important because we think it's a long-term partnership so we have to collect as much information as possible and that's what we did until now. For me, everything is OK. We have the situation which we [are in] and that's OK. We can do better, we have to do better and there are enough games to play.

On English football...

I heard a lot about English football and I watched a lot of English football but I never felt English football and I wanted to feel it, to be honest. That was my reason. I wanted to do something really different in a different country. Like I said before I came here, I knew my life plan. Part of my plan was to come and work in England. I thought about this before I became a football manager so it was long ago. The wind surprised me! It's very often windy in the game and nobody is interested but it's a big influence on the game. In Germany they may say 'it's not the best football played here' but you can. You have to take the circumstances and use it. If you take one German team here and let them play all the time in the wind, then let them see. It's really character school. These players are great in this. That's different but all the rest is football. It's really something like home here because I like this. Take the circumstance and do the best you can. The rest I'm only surprised about is the number of games, that's the truth. Nobody [in Germany] knew about rematches and things like this. Now we know and there's no problem. Next season, I know!