Brighton left-back, Olivier Boscagli, talking to Sky Sports about his conversations with Fabian Hürzeler before joining the club:

I waiting for him to tell me how good I am and, you know, trying to…

Interviewer: Seduce you?

Yeah. And like, “Okay, you want to come with me?” But it was the opposite.

My first meeting, I called my agent after the meeting. I said, “Oh, who’s this guy? What’s this?”

Because he showed me some videos of me when I was playing in PSV, and he said to me, “This is not good, this is not good, and this is not good. So this is where I want to work with you. On this point, on this point, on this point.”

So in my head, I was thinking, he shows me only the bad things, and he wants me?

So I had a feeling, “Oh, does he really like me?”

But on the other side, normally as a player, almost everybody knows what they do good.

And to know and understand what you do bad is a bit more difficult as a player.

Interviewer: Was it a fair assessment?

Oh yeah, totally fair. But I really liked the way he did it because he said to me, “Doing this, doing this, doing these good things, you know how to do it, and you know how to do it every week. But those kinds of things, this I want to work with you, and this I want to improve you.”

And then I felt directly like, “Oh, he wants to work with me, and he wants to improve me on some points to make me better.”

I think it was really important because, some coaches, they just like the way you play, but they don’t think about this.

Of course, when you have your total package as a player, there are some players who are really fast, some players really good technically. You have different players.

But he likes complete players.

So he also showed me how to be a complete player.

The sign of a great coach is one who wants to improve what he has, and Fabian Hürzeler shows this even when he is signing players.