Danny Röhl discusses management at Sheffield Wednesday and whether he'd have taken this position when he arrived

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00:00 When you came in, you came to a team that was bottom of the table, hadn't got a win.

00:04 If you were offered back then the chance to be fourth bottom with two games left to go and

00:10 have the fate in your own hands, would you have taken that?

00:12 Yeah, 100% of course. I think when you ask me after the Leicester game at home, after the draw,

00:22 even if it was a draw, we were 13 points back. Or if you ask me after the Huddersfield game,

00:28 of course, it's a good step. But we know it's not enough to have 47 points this season to stay in

00:38 the league. That means we have to invest and have to go in the next two games.

00:42 I think, especially in the last six months, with a lot of up and downs and setbacks,

00:49 I think this is then really different when you are the manager. Because then you have to stay in

00:55 front of the team. You have to lift them up, even if you sometimes feel it's also hard to take.

01:01 But you have to go always in front of them. You are the mirror. I think this is a big, big

01:06 challenge. Of course, the second one is to make the final decision for the starting XI. As assistant

01:14 coach, it's sometimes easy to say, "Yeah, I will play with him and with him." But as a manager,

01:19 you have to decide finally. That means sometimes you cannot really sleep.

01:25 Then you are thinking about it or you wake up. I think this is the difference. But I enjoy every

01:31 minute. I like my job. I like to invest in my team to prepare them. When I see the feedback and also

01:39 the performance from my players, this is fantastic to see. I think the connection is really well

01:50 between the coaches and the players. I think we create a good atmosphere here.

01:54 On the one hand, we demand a lot. We push them to high performance. But on the other hand, we

02:03 always also take them as humans and we understand. I think this is also a big, big strength for my

02:10 coaching team that we have a good feeling for our players.

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