00:00There's a new man in charge at Middlesbrough, despite them being joined second in the Championship.
00:05Normally, a new head coach arriving at a club in mid-season is a sign that they are struggling,
00:11making Kim Helberg's arrival on Teesside slightly unusual.
00:15And yet, with Rob Edwards' recent departure from the Riverside to take over a struggling Wolves team,
00:20Middlesbrough were left without a leader.
00:22And despite being something of an unknown, Helberg said he has been working towards this moment.
00:27I think as I've been preparing for this for 14 years, I think I've been in Swiss football for 14 years
00:34in different leagues from the bottom to the highest one.
00:37And I think that had developed me in the way I work with leadership and that stuff.
00:42So I think now I'm ready to take the step. I think it's a good time for me to do it.
00:46And so, yeah.
00:48And what is the most important message you will give to your players in terms of who you are and what you want from them?
00:53It's a little bit like that in terms of, for me, I can just ask for them to give me my best.
01:05Like, I can only ask of them to give me the best.
01:09Like, that's the only thing that is important.
01:10That they do everything they can to work as hard as they ever can.
01:14I cannot ask of them to put every shot in the top corner. That's impossible.
01:19We can ask them to do everything they can every time they go out on the pitch.
01:23And that I will do for them.
01:25And I think that is how you build a strong relationship with the players.
01:29That it's impossible to make everyone happy with the playing time.
01:33You can play 11 players. You have a squad of 24.
01:37But you can give them everything in terms of on the pitch, on the training ground, in terms of analysing.
01:44Rob Edwards certainly endeared himself to supporters in his short time at Middlesbrough,
01:49which made his departure all the more difficult to take from a supporter's perspective.
01:53Helberg will naturally do well to do similar.
01:56But then, most importantly, he must finish the job.
02:00He made clear that he will demand high standards from his players.
02:02But, perhaps most interestingly, he highlighted that he was ready to take the step
02:06from managing in Sweden to managing here in England in a league such as the Championship.
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