After being unveiled as Valencia manager, Gary Neville has acknowledged he needs to learn Spanish quickly, in order to communicate with the players properly. He has younger brother Phil as a role model, who has been at the club since the summer in the assistant manager’s position, and has learnt Spanish quickly.

Spanish is my biggest challenge, I don’t speak the language, it wasn’t in the plan. I will take lessons every day. At the moment I need to find Spanish teacher who will get up at 6 a.m. to give me lessons. I want to do what Philip has done – his Spanish is fantastic, saw him communicating with the players earlier. David, who works in video analysis speaks English and Spanish, he translated this morning. I will expect players to assist — at Old Trafford players were excellent in enabling new people to settle in. But I know I must pick up key phrases as quickly as possible.