Marius Müller spoke with the media on Tuesday afternoon ahead of our game against Celtic.
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Settling in
“It’s very good to have game time again after two years, playing not so much.
“So I enjoyed it on the pitch. Very good, very good so far.
“I have settled in very good during my days with the boys. Very good boys, I’ve made a few good connections so far, a few good coffee shops in the city. I have to say, I love coffee, but just black, no milk inside. I’m very good. I’m very happy to be here.”
Life in Germany
“No, in the end, it’s a business. You need good guys. When I speak with the goalie group, you have just one guy who earns everything on the weekend, who has the chance to help the team, and also, it’s very important for the number one that you have big support.
“So the last two years, I made this decision when I moved over from Schalke to Wolfsburg. I knew that I would be number two, so it was nothing special, but I decided to hunt one of my biggest goals in my life, which was playing one time in the highest division in Germany.
“So, I reached this goal. This was one of the biggest things I had my whole life, my whole career. I did this and, yes, in the end, it’s not unfair. It’s the business. You have to deal with it.”
A new environment
“I enjoy the league. I watched a few Scottish games in my early days when I was like 20 because we had a physiotherapist in Kaiserslautern. He was a big fan of Scottish football and also of everything that you have in the UK, like the arts and whatever.
“I enjoy every new place. I can see every new stadium, all my first impressions, it’s super good, I guess.”
The rabona
“If it makes sense in this moment, I think not so many people will understand it. I did it before in my life also. And in this moment, it made sense because I felt like it was better when I do it instead of kicking straight out with my left foot. In the end, I guess it was a good one.
“You have to speak to the gaffer, I guess. You have to be a little bit crazy in the right moment, at the right times, as a goalkeeper. And yes, if it makes sense, I will do it again.”
The trip to Celtic
“I want to deliver every weekend a win. It’s a big stadium, good crowd, but this is what we are all living for and what we’re all training for every day.
“This is the atmosphere which you have to enjoy, which you have to deal with. I’m very happy to travel over there. But yeah, it’s a game like every week.
“I didn’t know that the Rabona was such a big thing, I have to say. In Switzerland, when I did it before, nobody recognised it.
“In the end, it was automatic. I don’t think about it. I just made it. Because if you think about things, you will make a mistake.
“So every save we do, it’s coming from hard work every day, and also with the Rabona, I did it so many times in my life and I’m so safe in it. I just don’t think about it. It just comes out.”
Being number one
“I think in the end, nobody will tell you you’re number one, you’re number two. I think this was in the early days in football. I enjoyed it when somebody tells you you’re the number one or you’re the number two, especially with the number one, it’s not so much anymore.
“Number two, like my move from Schalke to Wolfsburg, it was clear, I would be the number two. But yeah, in the end, it was like, “You’re a very good goalkeeper. We want to have you in, and we want to see, yes, also a little bit who’s better.”
“But I think in the end, I was for sure a little bit more percent for me to be number one, but nobody said he will be clear number one no matter what happens.
“In football, you get no guarantees to play. And I don’t want a guarantee to play. It feels nice, it feels comfortable, but at this moment you’re stuck.
“You have to push every day 100%. You have to earn it, you know. You must earn it to play on the weekend.”
Scottish Football
“It is a very fast style of playing football. Because you have referees who don’t whistle every single touch, every single tackle. It’s so different to Germany, or Switzerland, or in France or whatever.
“So you have a different kind of style to whistle the games. And it’s more fluent, the game, and it’s running on. And you have so much more situations where you, when you are a goalkeeper in Germany, you have the ball on the other opposite half and you think, “Yeah, okay, they play around,” but here it is like 10 seconds later, it can be in front of you.
“Because the style is very, very fast, a little bit wild, I have to say. A little bit like the old kick and rush, from the UK.
“But in the end, on the pitch and also as a fan in the stand, I would say it’s quite nice and quite nice to watch. Much nicer to watch than German football.
“In the end it was a game where I think we did very well (Rangers). And in the end, we had a small detail, which we made a mistake, then these teams, or sometimes in football, it hurts you.
“And we have to talk about the positive things as well as both the things that didn’t work. So that’s what we did yesterday.
“And if you have games every three days, it’s just about recovery, recovery, recovery, as fast as possible.”
Wednesday night’s challenge
“I’m very respectful, really, especially for the big clubs. But which game in football is easy?
“We saw it in Dundee. When we played there, lost 2-0. Then one week later, we win 3-0. No game is easy.
“We won’t travel over there and think, “Yeah, the game is not the easiest of the season”, or whatever. Go out and play football.
“And in the end, I believe every week to win games. And no matter if I play on Saturday, a football game, or if I play on Wednesday, a game in the training session, or if I play at home with Alex Briedl some card games, I want to win and I believe every time in it.
“So I don’t care about if it’s hard or not. I go over to win.”
“Every day we train more together. Every game we play more together. We know each other better and, yes, for sure it helps.
“In the beginning, it’s completely normal if you have a big change like this club had this summer.
“I’m looking forward to know each other better and better and get a better relationship with each other.
