Barry Robson spoke to RedTV on Monday afternoon, the day he was officially announced as the 24th manager of Aberdeen Football Club. To watch the interview in full, please click on the video above.

“It is a very proud moment.

“This is a great football club. When you come from up this way you know what it means to be involved, whether that is working or playing or especially as manager of Aberdeen Football Club. A very proud moment for my family and myself.

“I have always wanted to be a manager and I am lucky that I have got an opportunity at such a terrific club like Aberdeen. A real proud moment.

“When I took over in January as interim manager, I never thought about it as this being my opportunity. I never thought of it that way. I thought of it as me being here to help out the football club. When I came in, obviously I had my own ideas, which everyone does. All I wanted to do was help and make sure the team started to perform well. It was a really really difficult time for the football club when I took over. I remember watching the game at Easter Road. It was a difficult period we were in, so I had to come in and try and help the team and the club and thankfully we were able to do that.

“The players have been fantastic.

“Sometimes when you lose a few games you can go into a real low mode of confidence but we tried to pick them up. In the first game we lost Ross McCrorie after five minutes and we were down to ten men. But we dug deep and battled hard in that game and showed some fight despite the result. We beat Motherwell and then we had to go to Celtic which was difficult. Since then, everything has been fine. We have our own way of working, the players have responded really well to that which was important and you can see that has helped them on the football pitch.

“Winning.

“We need to win games, that is the most important thing first and foremost. Everything else comes after that. It is not always easy to win. We are not going to win every game, I understand that, I get it. But we have to try and go and win e very game and that is what the players have done well. When you do win you see the confidence growing in the players, when you don’t win you see it going the other way.

“The most important part is trying to achieve the three points every weekend. If we do that more often that not then we should be where we want to be.

“It is enjoyable being a manager standing on the touchline. It is not easy thought! It is tiring, it is exhausting at times. But when you love football like I do, it is where you want to be.

“You have to try and be calm. You have to try and not get too caught up in the game too much. You have to consistency be thinking about what you can do to help the players, is there any tactical change you can do to help them, are there any slight adjustments we need to make in the game, where are we getting hurt, or where are you having some success in the game? All these little things you need to see.

“I think it is clear the way I am. The players know that. They knew that from the first time I spoke to them and that is what you need to do in life right now. It has always worked for me in my life – giving 100%. The best footballers – they give 100% all the time and that is the key. It is not easy to be able to give 100% all the time. It is not easy to bring that enthusiasm and energy and hunger every game. And also, every time you train. When you do get players and staff who bring that you have a real opportunity to perform well.

“Steve Agnew first and foremost is a good human being and that is the type of people I want to work with. Anyone can come in and give a brilliant presentation on a screen with nice arrows with instructions. But that is the easy part. Can you do it on a football pitch when there are bodies flying everywhere? Can you get the best out of a player and make him run when it is easier not to run or make him tackle when it is easier not to tackle? Can you get them to make the right pass, be brave and make a forward pass, the hard pass. Steve has that gift of giving that to the players. Steve knows how to make players better. He is a great coach who has worked with some great players and they all respect him. The players here instantly respected him. Tactically he is bang on. Great training drills, good ideas, enthusiastic. He knows who to get the best out of people and that is the gift every coach should go try and learn.

“I wanted to put someone next to me who would challenge me. Someone who is a terrific coach but not a yes man. I need people round about me who are going to challenge me. I knew the players would love him and the club would appreciate someone of that stature in the game coming in.”