Aitor Karanka gets angry when his Boro players put in a poor showing, he has insisted.
The Spaniard public profile is rarely anything other than cool and calm.
Even when he’s on the touchline, he rarely blows a fuse, but behind the dressing room door, he does let off steam from time-to-time.
The most recent occasion was the defeat at Nottingham Forest last weekend, though Karanka won’t reveal what he said following his side’s 2-1 defeat.
“I prefer not to say anything,” he said. “They know I want to win. We all want to win the games.
“When I lose I can’t stay calm. I am here to win. My only concern is to win the games.
“I can understand that if you lose to Arsenal and they are better than you then you say ‘congratulations’.
“When I lose a game when everybody knew what was going to happen, then we lose in that way then I can’t be calm.
“I have been angry before. They have seen me angry more than once. They need to understand. Now we have been together for 16 months and they know my character.”
Karanka’s sole focus today is to engineer a victory over an Ipswich team that beat Boro 2-0 at Portman Road in December.
“That was a bad moment, but since then we have had a couple of worse moments,” he admitted, before praising Town boss Mick McCarthy.
“He is a successful manager, a very experienced, a good manager. I can only learn from managers like him. He has lived in this kind of moment in the past, this is the first time for me.”
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