What I'm doing now is just preparation for that".
"It's just preparation, trying to get this team ready," he said.
It's just preparation as I do think we'll win, but the fallout will be enormous.
He added, "The really difficult thing is, this is just preparation for a much, much more difficult situation in 2012".
As the Porto midfielder Joao Moutinho put it at the first press conference in Poland: "They were just preparation games.
That's going to be the important one for us and we want to be ready for that tournament so everything in between is just preparation for that.
How are you going to say it is just preparation for India [as Kevin Pietersen did at the time] and all that?
It felt like the culmination of years of work, for which the wins at the 2008 European Championship and 2010 World Cup were just preparation.
Love between one person and another: that is perhaps the hardest thing it is laid on us to do, the utmost, the ultimate trial and test, the work for which all other work is just preparation".
