Following his appointment as Norwich City head coach, David Wagner spoke about the way he likes to set his team up and his preferred style of play.
The new head coach achieved success in England previously with Huddersfield Town by employing a high-speed style of play.
"Every manager has a different approach," he explained to Darren Eadie on Canaries TV.
"I like this high intensive, aggressive football where you are brave and chase opponents. Even if you have to respect opponents, which we will do, but look after yourself, home or away, try to play your football. It needs work, it doesn’t come by night. We have to work on the training pitch and in a lot of video meetings too, but this is why I got hired.
"I said this is the football I love, this is the football I like my team to play. And I’ve seen enough that I’m sure we have the players, the individuals and the mentality to do it. That said, we need time, we have to work a lot. Confidence isn’t at the highest when you are not winning football matches as you’re expected to do but this is something you can only change on the grass."
Wagner outlined his eagerness to push players and coaches outside of their comfort zone, outlining that keeping the same routine rarely leads to that.
"On the other side, you know you have space to improve, massive space to improve. If you have the willingness to work, to change the approach, to change a little bit of your mindset, then this will happen. This is what I’ve said to the players as well, to leave their comfort zone. If you want to have success, you normally will not get it if you do your normal routine.
"If you’d like to change your borderline, you have to leave your comfort zone. You will not change it if you always do the same. This is where I will invite everybody to leave their comfort zone, I will support everybody to leave their comfort zone but it will be painful in some moments, that’s the truth. But if you get the reward, everybody likes to do it.
"We started to love and to play this game because we enjoy it and this is what we have to do."