At Everton, we have always tried to do good deals and have always tried to buy at the right age and the right price.
The last thing I'd ever want to see is another manager being sacked. I certainly don't like the phrase 'sacking season.'
Everyone needs an opportunity in life. I was given an opportunity as a manager, and you try and take it.
Do I feel I should have been given more time? Of course I do. To go to a club like Manchester United and follow someone like Sir Alex after the time he had been there, to stay for ten months... It couldn't be a revolution at Manchester United; it had to be evolution. It had to take time.
The manager needs to be given the opportunity to get on with his job and be given that time that he needs.
I'm desperately ambitious, and one of the things I haven't been able to do at Everton is win a trophy.
I don't think anyone ever turns down their national team opportunity, but I think it has to be at the right time.
I would like it to be the rules all round the world that that is the case - you manage the country of your birth.
I would never have left Everton for anybody but an ambitious football club. And I thought Manchester United would have given me that opportunity.
I have a point to prove. Sometimes you have to repair things, and maybe I have a little bit that I need to repair.
I love to see goals and attacking play; I want us to be entertaining. But it's no good if you're shipping goals.
I would have to consider the U.S.A. job if I was approached because it's one of the big nations in world football, with massive growth potential.
I would still consider myself in the elite group of managers. If it was me against someone else, I'd trust myself.
I think, with more experience, I'm probably wiser, calmer. You hope you'll be able to use your knowledge a bit better.
I had plenty of opportunities before I went to Spain to stay in England, and I had made a decision that I would go and work in Spain.
It's true that players can take time to settle at a new club. I remember people telling me it took Patrice Evra and Nemanja Vidic a while - players who became great players for United.
Bryan Gray at Preston gave me a chance, even though Joe Royle and Ian Rush were being linked with the job. He taught me an awful lot about structuring the job and encouraged me to invest in young players.
You can't ring up another manager and say, 'Who do you think I should pick this week?' But you take the good and bad from people as you go along.
Football is not always as glamourous as some might imagine, as the story of the first time I signed Marouane Fellaini perhaps illustrates.
I'm always very careful when I'm spending the club's money. I treat it like it's my own, and I always try to sign players for what I feel is the right price.
I've always been quite strict when it comes to the appearance of my players. I don't want to see earrings in training, things like that.
With Marouane's hair, I actually wondered if it might take a bit of the pace off the ball when he went up for a header. But I soon realised it was part of his personality. Part of who he is.
I'll answer as many questions as I can, but when people have a contract at other football clubs, I think it's wrong to talk about them.
Your reputation doesn't stand for anything. You have to come and try to get up and show you're capable of doing the job.
I've worked for a long time to get myself in a position where maybe I'd be fortunate enough to land one of the big jobs.
Real Sociedad fans are fantastic; they know that the club is trying to join the other teams who are always in the top part of the table - to get as close to them as possible.