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"For me, Liam is a very special person," Ilicali tells Hull Live as he reflects on his first full season as owner. "From our very first meeting over Zoom, I said to myself that this is my coach.
"Before I met him, I had 10 interviews and nobody made me feel like that. I saw a young, passionate, and very intelligent person in that one-hour meeting, and in every movement, he has made, he's proved that.
"When he explains some things to me, I'm always convinced. He gives us reports of what he's doing and informs us of his ideas behind them.
"I've been in the football business for more than 20 years, working inside Fenerbahce, and when he explains things to me, he convinces me (like I haven't had before).
"Business is important, and everyone's talent is important so too is someone's capacity, but for me, the most important thing is to be a good person, I always work with good people.
"I never, ever, in my whole career, have worked with somebody where I don't like their character. I can fully guarantee you in our eight months together I have found that - I feel like an expert in human behaviour, a gift given to me by my father - Liam is a very nice guy and has a very clean heart, and I feel that will help him a lot in his managerial career."
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From the moment he came, I would say he's had 70 percent of good games, 20 percent of OK games and 10 percent of bad games, and I would not blame him for the bad games because we are playing teams almost promoted to the Premier League, and by the way, I would say we played well against Burnley and Sheffield United - we were not worse than the opposition in those games, it was down to their scoring abilities," he said.
"I'm very happy with a manager like him, and my hope is to support him and give him what he needs to support him so he can lift the team next season to challenge," he said.
"With financial fair play, we have some problems of course. But I will back him and together, we will find some solutions. We will get what he wants.
"We may have to sell some players to allow us to make some transfers, but I am fully behind him this summer. We will work together to get the players we need, and to get our targets which are also his targets - and we will be successful."
"Liam is not running after crazy budget players," Ilicali explained. "He knows the Championship, he's not pushing us to make big-money transfers. We are on the same page.
"Last summer, we did not know we would be working with him. Liam came to a team that was already done (transfer business). Now it's time for him, and to find transfers suitable for his tactics.
"We will support him with players that meet his football philosophy."
