MF: Ante Razov... Some people questioned your substitution of Ante for Galvan Rey late in the game. Is Ante healthy?
MJ: Ante is healthy. Sergio Galvan Rey has been playing well. But no one knows that Sergio never joined the team until Friday evening at 3AM. He's been out of the country, trying to get a green card. He got his green card, came flying back at 3AM, trained just a little bit on Saturday, and I started him. Galvan Rey played well. And for me, no problem. I had to do the substitution because Sergio was tired. And that was my only reason. It worked out well, we won 2:0.

MF: Can't argue with the final score, but some people just want to see the bad in everything.
MJ: Hey! Throw it in, I'll accept the criticism, good for me. Sergio was tired, he came off. Will Sergio start on Saturday? We'll just need to wait and find out.

MF: You've said that you've talked to Bob Bradley about 20 times last week, but not about soccer. What do you talk about?
MJ: Everything. We talk all the time. When you work with someone for three years, why not? We were a partnership. For me personally, I now have an opportunity to take this team further than any other coach has in ten years. And I'll be working very very hard to do that.

MF: Is it Bob's team, your team, a mixture?
MJ: It doesn't matter whose team it is. We're all in this together.

MF: So Bob is still in this?
MJ: I'm the coach. I'm the one making decisions. Bob is sitting at home. It's certainly very very hard for me when Bob's sitting at home, because we were in this together. I'm the one picking everything, I'm the one making changes to 3-5-2, I'm the one starting Galvan Rey over Razov, I'm the one throwing Timmy Regan in there, I'm the one putting Stammler back in there. It's all coming from me. I felt there's changes to be made and to put certain people on their toes. That's the decisions I make and at the end of the day, I'll make these decisions.

MF: Alexi Lalas has said in one of the papers that he's talked to Frank Yallop, and basically called Yallop out to take this job while you are still in charge.
MJ: For me personally, I don't care. Fire me, do what you want. At the end of the day, I've got the team into the playoffs, I gave it my best shot, and if that's not good enough, I'll move on, and that's not a problem.

MF: But you do feel this team has a chance against one of the best teams in the league?
MJ: Of course, we've already beaten them. We now have a clean slate, we can certainly do something against New England, and I have no problems taking this team further.

MF: New England is pretty good on the wings with Ralston and Leonard. How are you gonna handle that?
MJ: We'll sit down, we'll do all that sweating Wednesday through Friday, and I'm not divulging anything I'm gonna give to New England. Right now, we'll keep everything under wraps, we'll take care of it. For me, there're certain things in there that I see, and we'll move forward. If we don't make the final round, it wont be for the lack of trying.